Administrators Arcade King Posted June 24, 2019 Administrators Share Posted June 24, 2019 (edited) Another neglected board on the "one day I'll get to it" pile. Pretty sad looking original Galaxian. I had a lot of these at one point but I either traded, gave or sold them and just ended up with this one. Going over the board all the CPU and sprite rams are missing, a 74ls163 at 5T, missing some of the components for AC to DC, program rom riser missing and C51 missing which is part of the amp circuit and the 18.432mhz crystal was missing. First thing is to convert the board to DC. Info on the excellent Macro's Arcade site HERE Next replaced the missing 74LS163 and put new sockets in at 8B(CPU), 7F(Program) and the graphics roms K1 and H1 After that program new roms for K1 and H1 and perform the single rom hack. Info for that HERE Slight amendment to his hack. no need to ground pin 20 just tie it to pin 22 1) Tie Pin 2 (A12) to chip 7D Pin 5. 2) Tie Pin 20 (CE) and Pin 22 (OE) to chip 8E pin 13. 3) Tie Pin 23 (A11) to chip 7D Pin 3. 4) Tie Pin 26 (A13) to chip 7D Pin 7. Time to turn her on and.... Hmm looks like shes trying to tell me something..... Usually a bunch of numbers or letters on the screen like this is a vram fault. Sure enough piggy backing a 2114 on top of H3 reveals a program ram error. Bad Ram 1 can mean either the 2114 @ P7 or N7 is bad (or both). Not going to muck around so I put sockets in for all the 2114's H3, F3 , P7 and N7 Game fired right up and ran all day with no issues! and here I thought it was going to be another Pacman. At first there was no sound except a ticking noise that was there regardless of the volume and the amp was getting hot due to the oscillation. Replaced the missing C51 330uf cap and all sound were present and 100%. There is some interference buzzing the higher the volume but that would be due to a bad cap somewhere. Lastly the 5 missing 27LS00 sprite rams. I ordered some equivalent 74s201's from Belgium and arrived pretty quick. Damn these things get blistering hot and will need heat sinks. I put the 4 in 1 ram replacement board I had made up (see HERE) to good use, works beautifully! I'll need to put a heatsink on the remaining 74s201. I think I'm going to order Marcro's 19 in 1 for this board. I really have a soft spot for Galaxian and I think I'll put this in my cocktail. I'll continue to keep this board for the next few days and hopefully wont see any issues. @Davefjedi you still got that 8 in 1 I did? EDIT: Doesn't look like he does the 19 in 1 anymore :( Edited June 24, 2019 by Arcade King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefjedi Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 @Davefjedi you still got that 8 in 1 I did? Sure do Its one of the only PCBs I have kept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Arcade King Posted July 1, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted July 1, 2019 I've managed to get in contact with Mike from Macro Arcade and he still sell's the Galaxian 19 in 1 kit. If anybody wants to grab a set of pcb's £25 let me know and I'll add it to my order. This is just for the required PCB's, you'll have to source the Eproms, Gals and other components yourself. Full assembly instructions, list of required components and binary files to program the Eproms and GAL are on his site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kool65 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Did you order the 19 in 1 board kit yet? If not I'd be interested in getting a set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Arcade King Posted August 14, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 14, 2019 Yeah I got 2 arrived a few months back and I had to gather all the parts required, he only had the PCB's and I was grateful just to get that. I got so many projects on the go i haven't had time to put one together. Watch this space :) Sent from my HTC U12 life using Aussie Arcade mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kool65 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Well if you end up with a spare board set I'll buy it from you. Keen to see how you go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I've managed to get in contact with Mike from Macro Arcade and he still sell's the Galaxian 19 in 1 kit. If anybody wants to grab a set of pcb's £25 let me know and I'll add it to my order. This is just for the required PCB's, you'll have to source the Eproms, Gals and other components yourself. Full assembly instructions, list of required components and binary files to program the Eproms and GAL are on his site. This looks very cool. Do you have his contacts mate? I'd like one of these for mine when i eventually get to it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Arcade King Posted August 18, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 18, 2019 Sure mate mike@the-coates.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 Thanks Trav, I've sent Mike an email :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Arcade King Posted August 22, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 22, 2019 Put one of my Galaxian 19 in 1's together last night and took about an hour and a half. Love all the options in the setup including dips for all games, option to run the games randomly in attract and pick a startup game, handy if its in a dedicated machine plus all the board diagnostics. I think I'll make the second one up and sell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacies Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Good work :035: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Sweet! Great upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefjedi Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I may have to fire mame up and see what some of the other titles are like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Sure mate mike@the-coates.com My kit arrived today :) Now to wait a couple of years until i get to it :lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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