Leaderboard

I would have thought 88 it would still have been a supertubes in 86/87 I suspect. Supertubes released 1st July 1986.

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???

Yeah maybe 88 is more likely, my recollection seems to be earlier but I would agree 88. It’s been nice actually playing the machine now, plays quite nice with basic holds rolling in quite routinely (a novelty compared to later machines) I’ve managed the unlimited nudges a couple of times too already with the tokens spilling out the bottom when the jackpot pays. Features fall in freely be it nudge or wins and then the exchange to see what can be won. I see what was meant now about the holds (mentioned earlier), I have only had hold and trail held a couple of times and never to any win or nudge - its like that coding just didn’t exist for some reason. Shame as the working out what holding might get has been removed. The jackpot tune is also not original but its quality of that era. Its just making me want an original MPU3 now to stand next to it and compare properly 🤦🏻‍♂️ here we go again 😛

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 😁

What better to do on a Saturday afternoon than re-assemble Line-Up 😍

Nice machine, I've just loaded this up on the emulator and had a blast. Typically tight £4 ACE machine, mostly centred around the micro dot pot (or in this case the cash pot) but can go on a mad run every now and then. Shame about the paint on these they always seem to suffer with really bad flaking. I've got a Starstruck in this cabinet (used to be a Pound-A-Round) and I had to get all the metalwork shot blasted and powder coated as it was so bad. Looks lovely when it's done but it's major work stripping the cab down. Good luck getting this working again, it's certainly worth saving as there aren't an awful lot of these System One machines about any more.

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

That cabinet is in really good condition considering it’s age, looking forward to seeing some pics of the end result.