As title says, this story is another proof, that we have a great and selfless community here.
The first "new" cab was on ebay a few months ago, it was a bit butchered and far away from our members, but Jörg (Digimon) was so kind and offered me to pick it up and deliver it to Ully's Storage.
It was a 1100 km ride.
As always, Ully agreed in no time to store it for a while, so finally we can made it.
The cab arrived without keys, I had to drill the locks first, which was a real nightmare, the old beast didn't want me to see what is inside.
Finally I could remove the back door and check what is inside
Looks like all oroginal except of the pcb
The good old Hantarex mtc 90
And if you are curious by now what cab is this, here we go
Yeah, it is a Super Galaxian from 1979.
It has a hacked bezel, I belive I already saw this artwork on a Space Invaders bootleg or something.It is a bit shorter than the original one, they tried to use some wooden strips to cover the missing area.
I started to clean the bottom of the cab and found this, I was really happy first, but there is just a monitor manual and some Donkey Kong and Jungle King stuff there
The marquee is in great shape
As you can saw on the pics, the cpo is also missing, but I already have the scans from Paul and an original bezel from Chris also, so it won'T be a problem.
I fired it up and had some neckglow for a minute, but monitor totally died then.
Checked all the caps and replaced a blown fuse, but still not working, will have to repair it later.
I also checked the pcb and realized, that it has a Konami pinout, I tried it out with an adapter on my test bentch, it is a fully working Gyruss.
More progress with this later, huge thanks to Joerg and Ully!!!
