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Powder coaters called me yesterday so I went and grabbed the frames, what a match i am chuffed with these! Not long now for the final reveal lol

When do we recon this conversion came out? I am guessing 1986/7 …..? Playing it briefly took me back to the days where it was a luxury (or stupidity) to play on the hard core expensive money eating 10p version - all the 2p play versions were lined up and I’d usually end up on those (and spoof). Seems hard to imagine nowadays 10p was ever expensive and £2 jackpot seems pointless but I suppose it was a bit like a pound today. Of course in the arcades it was all tokens, many with the horrible security slots spending an eternity getting them to accept! Incredible how few there seem to be left, I recall them everywhere in quantity too. It was gambling and only the operator won, however, they were entertaining ‘amusement’ machines where there was a longer play cycle, lots of paying out and re-feeding the machine, counting the numbers on the line up board and of course getting to know the reel orders for those nudges exchanged from cash. And wasn’t GAIN amazing after the cruel nudge cycles on many other Fruties of that time. Snooze and you did loose! Not with Line up of course. The worst memory of pressure nudges comes from the old mech-elec for me like super nudge gambler. I still fed that money too! Oh the nostalgia 😁

Hi, a friend of mine has a ACE SYSTEM one Cash Arena machine and the MPU red LED just stays on. the EPROMS are good. Does anyone here repair them or can you point me in the right direction? My friend will buy a new MPU if needed but he can not find them anywhere thanks in advance

Echoing what Nick has said, the battery vapours can cause havoc in these boards. The causes of the reset LED stuck on are many and varied due to the reset circuit monitoring all the voltages from the PSU and some other functions. These can be attributed in some cases to the voltage supervisor chip (IC2) the 555 timer (IC1) and any of the supply feeds being missing or under par. Failure of IC3 is also a possibility. The vapours can get into all the chips between the battery and CPU and all the associated components too. Most of the the resistors along the bottom edge will usually come apart using the fingernail test!! The track under the battery invariably has no copper left in some places even though the solder resist looks clean! Work that one out. So getting the reset LED to go off is usually only half (or a lot less) of the story and in depth fault finding then begins in earnest. I have done many of these and some are good to go once all the bad components have been found and replaced. Others however have persisted with odd faults, some with contaminated boards and some just unknown which work fine on the test rig but not in the users machine???

I saw this machine, took the Indy and left this behind. Absolute pain to sort and not worth the end result in my opinion. i hope your friend gets it sorted

Perfect way to spend the time martin and it looks so good with those frames .

Mart Thats a great match .did the coaters have to mix the powders to make this colour or was it one they had in stock and if so what was the name or code of this grey

The original sidewinder was mine that I asked Chris to look at,but I don’t own it anymore.

hi baz .. did i ever send you the supersidewinder manual i had ? i know the sidewinder manual has been upped to downloads as has the supersidewinder manual not sure whats in it if anything that could help, maybe something maybe nothing hit me up anyhow hoping your well or asgood as you can be rich