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BFM - Hyperdeal Tech: SYS 85 It's golden oldie time with this game from Bell fruit, released in 1986/7. It's a fun pontoon style game set on 10p play & £4 token jackpot. Keyboard shortcuts in the notes. Thanks to: The late Wizard for MFME @Amot for the roms @scoodyemu for all the images & hi/lo reel help. Use MFME V20.1 to play Hyperdeal.zip

What's the machine hiding in the corner?

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A fair bit of time has been spent on the board with the 53v rail burn out and as expected the silicon count is horrendous. At present all the PIO's have been swapped out, most the transistors and a few other small chips. The good news is it's now functioning, not correctly yet but at least it does run. One issue I came across which may be of some interest was the lamp OVER CURRENT circuit. Both transistors had gone to silicon heaven and looking at the circuit all looks correct. However the board had R42 & 43 reversed so the 10K was across T14. These resistors looked original too so must have been incorrect from the factory. Comparing with the other board, with the audio chip burn out, and the resistors had been renewed and refitted to the correct way round so somebody knew this already! I've looked at some later PCplus boards and they are also correct. Not a particularly good pic but the 10K is R42 and the 1K R43 as per the diagram but they are the wrong way round! Still a few issues to sort out on this board, most things are working although something isn't right on the lamps somewhere. I can get it to clock up credits but it won't play correctly and this is only with the door open. With it closed it just alarms so there's still a little gremlin in there somewhere.

Points of frustration that only an owner of an SRU machine will know ..... 1 being easy :-) 10 being an utter bastard ! Changing fuses anywhere on the machine 1 out of 10 Changing 12v Bayonet bulbs on the lamp masks 2 out of 10 Changing floro tubes background lighting x 2 3 out of 10 Changing 12v wedge bulbs on the start--Nudge up--Hold x 3 buttons 4 out of 10 Re-fitting lamp masks to glasses 6 out of 10 Removing and re-fitting the reel glass (scare factor) 7 out of 10 Refitting the damned display board (stretching beyond belief in a confined space) 8 out of 10 grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Changing reel phase/ lamp transistors on an SRU controller (i need a magnifying glass and soldering like a ninja) 9 out of 10 The worst job by far (for me) refitting the silver coin bevel , illuminated red coin insert, rusty reject spring & interlocking shroud on my OWN ..I was almost in tears what an utter BASTARD of a job ...do not ever attempt this on your own with the reel glass still in place!! lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooo you have been warned 😉 10 out of 10 Cheers Stef

Just found this site and thought I'd stop in to say hello as what you lot are doing with our old machines is amazing! I worked at JPM from the late 80's to 2000 then founded Red Gaming in 2000. Pretty much responsible for the design of most of our AWP, Club, SWP and Export machines. Just found out that one of your members is trying to build a Red Dwarf from scratch and was very impressed! it was hard enough creating the original let alone trying to do it from a terrible picture and some ROMS! I'm now in Australia so can only admire what you are all doing from afar. It's also such a shame that neither JPM nor Red survived the turmoil in the gaming industry. The world is a poorer place for it.

These turned up a cpl of days ago complete with lamp masks I was wondering if any of the dutch guys had one of these machines they could put pictures up of the machine so I could see if its a possible way of bringing it back to life cheers Tony

Thank you for the fantastic layout.

Just such a great picture which sums up cafes from.the late 70s early 80s .looks at that TV and the orange formica tables.

Hopefully one of the dutch guys sees this and can offer a little knowledge

ooh!! Don't think I have ever played or seen this one before, thanks.

Button panel could be different too but flier covered

Now I also have the correct idc tools too for the small bulb holders and starpoint connectors and bulb holders!!

Ahh, no itching now.

The machine is Master Gambler from A.L. Games 1980...

Just awesome 😄

Well let's put it this way. The bit of track that runs along the top of the board and skirts round the battery connection is picking up stray voltage. I've cleaned the top of the board with IPA then a stronger PCB cleaner which made it better but didn't cure it. From that I think I would conclude that this board is contaminated within. Once I'd isolated that section, roughly between the arrows the stray voltage was gone although the isolated bit still had volts on it! I suspect that's what you found Andrew? By the way Andrew any chance of you changing your profile photo, it makes me start itching every time I see it.

I bought a German version yesterday

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First good look at the machine the cabinet and artwork is in really nice nick, just got to the battery in time it had just started to leak now removed and board is really clean. On looking at the roms unfortunately there soldered directly to the board so may not be able to get them dumped as quickly as I'd liked but stanmarsh has kindly offered to remove them and dump and socket the board for me so will upload once there done. There's also a schematic drawing and handbook inside if wanted I'll create a new thread in the downloads section so contributing members can have them I'll take some close up pics as well

It's in the van on way home now but here's a quick preview 20190208_141047.mp4

Maybe not lost if the roms are required I'll upload them once it's arrived