Progress report. Oh I snapped the right pf apron looking plastic in the cold today "f*&K. If anyone has one... Tanner or Grauwulf maybe?

congrats on the progress!!

I knew you would get it working.............Congrats. So when are you going to CC the playfield?

Quoted from HP5P

I knew you would get it working.............Congrats. So when are you going to CC the playfield?

It's already CC'd. It's a chunk of plastic.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Progress report. Oh I snapped the right pf apron looking plastic in the cold today "f*&K. If anyone has one... Tanner or Grauwulf maybe?

I don't have one, but I would be happy to scan mine for you if you want to try and reproduce it.

James

I guess my Christmas wish will be to understand your repair log  

Congrats!

Thought this interesting to look at before plunking it back in the cab.

As you said, it's Christmas under there!  

Congrats on the ''resurection''.

Eric

You really have to appreciate the lights. All the lighting bolts are cpu/driverboard controlled.
I know I had a hell of a time getting all the lights to work 100%.

Displays are on the way!  

Well I am not sure about all this switches registering. The boards do but I may have a switch to be adjusted (or I am just a lousy shot). Without the displays I can't really trouble shoot the switches properly so that's next on the agenda. I did also find that the rotational mechanism for the shooter isn't as smooth as it could be. They used some hex screws that stick up and once and awhile snag a bit on that spring steel piece that goes back and forth. Makes twisting a bit ratchety at times. I am probably going to mod this by countersinking and using flush counter sunk allen screws. I looked to see if it was an adjustment or clearance issue but it looks to be just a bad design. As I get better at playing I find I am making shots toward the outer ends where they initiate and using the full range of motion considerably more. This game definitely takes a bit to get onto but if you get proficient is really a lot of fun.

Too bad they never caught on. This looked like it would have been a good game. It looks like it was screen printed vice a plastic pf so I don't know how it would have held up the the abuse from the rapidly fired balls.



"Spellbinder was the followup game to Hyperball. (The game was sure to be a smashing success, so another game in format had to be ready to go.) The photo here is of an unpopulated playfield for that game. Rumor has it that only one Spellbinder was ever made, and that it was probably scrapped.

Note the locations of the holes in the playfield. Viewers familiar with Hyperball will note that they correspond to the Hyperball locations, so that the Hyperball parts could be used with Spellbinder."

Found a couple of shots of early HB backglasses. I like the simple black one but why bother with backglass illumination? Game BG goes dark in play anyway I guess?

If you happen to get a nice Spellbinder image (enough to reproduce it), and send it to CPR with an order of 10 playfields, and then do the same with a backglass image, then take 10 Hyperballs and reconvert them, you can do it!!!



(would be fun though, money aside...)

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Well I am not sure about all this switches registering. The boards do but I may have a switch to be adjusted (or I am just a lousy shot). Without the displays I can't really trouble shoot the switches properly so that's next on the agenda. I did also find that the rotational mechanism for the shooter isn't as smooth as it could be. They used some hex screws that stick up and once and awhile snag a bit on that spring steel piece that goes back and forth. Makes twisting a bit ratchety at times. I am probably going to mod this by countersinking and using flush counter sunk allen screws. I looked to see if it was an adjustment or clearance issue but it looks to be just a bad design. As I get better at playing I find I am making shots toward the outer ends where they initiate and using the full range of motion considerably more. This game definitely takes a bit to get onto but if you get proficient is really a lot of fun.

Too bad they never caught on. This looked like it would have been a good game. It looks like it was screen printed vice a plastic pf so I don't know how it would have held up the the abuse from the rapidly fired balls.



"Spellbinder was the followup game to Hyperball. (The game was sure to be a smashing success, so another game in format had to be ready to go.) The photo here is of an unpopulated playfield for that game. Rumor has it that only one Spellbinder was ever made, and that it was probably scrapped.

Note the locations of the holes in the playfield. Viewers familiar with Hyperball will note that they correspond to the Hyperball locations, so that the Hyperball parts could be used with Spellbinder."

Found a couple of shots of early HB backglasses. I like the simple black one but why bother with backglass illumination? Game BG goes dark in play anyway I guess?

The first thing I would like to find is the original code and try and run it on HB.