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Judge Dredd WPC-89 MPU Repair

Judge Dredd WPC-89 MPU Repair

The Board This WPC-89 MPU came out of a Judge Dredd. The game had stopped booting entirely and was showing intermittent direct switch issues before it gave up — two classic symptoms that point str

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Theatre of Magic — Coin Door Issues, no flashers

Theatre of Magic — Coin Door Issues, no flashers

The Call Got a call from a recently sold ToM that had started behaving strangely after delivery; the game would boot fine, play fine, but during gameplay the game would trigger the memory protect

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Bram Stoker's Dracula — dead to fully functional

Bram Stoker's Dracula — dead to fully functional

The Game This Williams BSD (1993) came in completely untested to sort out, and ended up having a handful of common BSD issues — a non-functional mist magnet, no display, and various switch problem

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Twilight Zone Restoration

Twilight Zone Restoration

The Machine This Bally Twilight Zone (1993) came to me from Oklahoma City, where it had spent over two decades sitting in an outdoor shop. Years of red dust and grime had worked their way into eve

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Getaway — GI and input header repair

Getaway — GI and input header repair

The Machine This Williams High Speed 2: The Getaway (1992) came in with two issues — strings of GI lighting were dead or dim, and the game would occasionally refuse to boot. Both turned out to be

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STTNG — Trough, Gun Mech & Opto Board Repair

STTNG — Trough, Gun Mech & Opto Board Repair

The Machine This Williams STTNG (1993) came in needing attention on all the classic STTNG things; trough optos, the left gun mech, the main opto board, and a poor prior LED swap all needed address

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