This is the first game I have picked up from Jason up near Waterloo, NY and boy is it a keeper.
I spent more than I usually spend, but it's still well lower than what I've heard other people pay for games. At $250 I still consider it a great deal.
The cabinet is in very nice condition with generic wood grain sides. The control panel is in excellent condition and the track ball rolls extremely smooth. The game was in 100% working condition when we loading it into the bed of my truck... did you catch that... "was in".
Unfortunately I didn't check to make sure the main PCB or ARII were securely attached so in the 2 hours it took to get home they both broke loose and beat the hell out of each other. The ARII doesn't look to have taken any damage but boy did it do a number on the main PCB.
Most of the capacitors were broken off the main board and there was even more damage because the board would no longer boot up even after the capacitors were replaced.
I started to do some basic trouble shooting but things were not working out very well. Seems like there were multiple problems because one minute a bad RAM would be indicated and then the next the board would act completely dead.
Instead of fooling around, pretending I'm a repair tech... I sent it off to bit_slicer over at the KLOV forums.
The board is still being worked on so we have yet to play this game... and boy the kids can't wait!
(AS OF: 07-20-2009)
- replaced all capacitor on main PCB
- Play! (waiting on PCB to be repaired)
Last update: 07-20-2009