For several years now i have had a Night Moves, and due to house moves/other priorities havent really had chance to get it all up and running. Since I'm still poorly with Covid/Flu (or whatever it is!), figured i could use a little of the time trying to get it up and running before the new year, when i have a few people coming.
Ive only been playing with this for a few hours now, and I'm not sure if it's the slightly older Tech than i'm used to, or the fact that there's so many variables (and lack of coherant manuals!), but i'm starting to loose the will to live already. I dont seem to have the same issue with B/W.... those were always so well documented!
So when i got mine several years ago, as is so very common, the battery on the MPU had leaked all over the PCB, and made a complete mess. I dont mind giving those a go to try to fix, however this was bad - so much so I picked up one of @myPinballs system80B boards.
I managed to get that fitted, however it did nothing at the time, so the machine got conseigned to the "when i get around to it" pile.
There was no-one more surprised as me that when i fired it up earlier that it sprang into life... well... it booted!!
However all is not perfect, as expected. It boots to this (see video below) :
View attachment Nightmoves.MOV
The "explosion" noise at the end of the vid is where i tried to start a game. Credit taken, and nothing happens (even with the balls in, which they werent in the above!)....
I can get into the Service menus, and it seems to run through the tests ok - the only thing in there which concerns me is :
Have run the Roms off twice now (unfortunately the ones ones I have are the ones on IPDB).... does anyone have any known good ones please i can try??
Other than this i am at a loss... where do i go from here??!!!
Ive only been playing with this for a few hours now, and I'm not sure if it's the slightly older Tech than i'm used to, or the fact that there's so many variables (and lack of coherant manuals!), but i'm starting to loose the will to live already. I dont seem to have the same issue with B/W.... those were always so well documented!
So when i got mine several years ago, as is so very common, the battery on the MPU had leaked all over the PCB, and made a complete mess. I dont mind giving those a go to try to fix, however this was bad - so much so I picked up one of @myPinballs system80B boards.
I managed to get that fitted, however it did nothing at the time, so the machine got conseigned to the "when i get around to it" pile.
There was no-one more surprised as me that when i fired it up earlier that it sprang into life... well... it booted!!
However all is not perfect, as expected. It boots to this (see video below) :
View attachment Nightmoves.MOV
The "explosion" noise at the end of the vid is where i tried to start a game. Credit taken, and nothing happens (even with the balls in, which they werent in the above!)....
I can get into the Service menus, and it seems to run through the tests ok - the only thing in there which concerns me is :
Have run the Roms off twice now (unfortunately the ones ones I have are the ones on IPDB).... does anyone have any known good ones please i can try??
Other than this i am at a loss... where do i go from here??!!!
