i just received an email  from clive @ the coin op caldron saying they had received my board but they have no idea how.
On my hard drive, i had the shipping label from 2003 when i first used coinopcauldron. naturally i compared it against the address website last week--phone number the same, check,, same city, check..  apparently they moved three years ago. guess i didn't check the address closely and lucky for me, the postman noticed and redirected properly.  Time to run and get some 6/49 tickets and see if the lucky streak continues..

The even greater news is that  Clive happens to have a very small handfull of NOS custom asics for the pesky wpc95av board. so should the unthinkable happen this summer with your wpc95 AV board,  you stand a chance of having it repaired --even more so if wayne actually repro's the chip  this summer.

wow ...     you mean it's the CV board ?!

Gee you could get a full board set and a bonus NBA cabinet for $800 here.

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/ele/718019543.html

Quoted from Mrhide

wow ...     you mean it's the CV board ?!

i don't want to jinx it but hopefully sometime next week Clive tells me the board is  functional and finally free from the Gaucho Artisans loving touches.

whoda thunk that if i would have waited 5 years to restore CV, it would be cheaper and less trouble  get sound.


the moral of the story (for those unaware the long saga behind the gaucho CV i got from jeremy wilson which we couldn't plug in that day at the public storage) is that the game booted back in montreal but with no sound.. i notice there's a broken pin on the dsp chip.. instead of demanding a cash refund for the broken av board, i figured that board was repairable.  so phil & i strip the game to send playfield out to bill davis. i go through absurd torture to track down DSP chips ($115)  and have an electronics place wave solder it in ($55).. still no freaking sound when we put the board in phil's AFM.

oh, i and i forget the fun moment, when phil swaps in his board back into  AFM. then his AFM absolutely refuses to boot. i mean like, no logical reason why it's completely dead no matter how many reboots or what phil does.. then in the morning, his AFM returns to normal..

good times.. good times..

WPC95 is only for the brave.. hopefully wayne delivers some asics in the comming weeks, so nobody should have to axe another NBA or Congo to keep their game running.

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Gee you could get a full board set and a bonus NBA cabinet for $800 here.

i think there are several better uses for my pink and liliac paint than to waste it on NBA restoration.

Clive just emailed me saying the board is repaired, fully functional and it wasn't the ASIC all along. it was a freak set of conditions he'd never seen before involving static ram (which was replaced before i first sent him the board in 2004).

WOO HOO!

i would have prefered finding out i had at least 5 of tonight's winning numbers, but i'll settle for working wpc95AV board incase this lucky streak doesn't continue past 11:29pm.