It's now alive.

Here is one of my old grail.....
I remember of my playing on this exact cab when i was a young boy.


http://imgur.com/a/CwC4u

Here is at the warehouse i found it...
All was there but not the monitors.....
http://i.imgur.com/6syv9Om.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xFW1Bua.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yYLnD4v.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y63GgS7.jpg

Arrived safe in my gameroom....
http://i.imgur.com/VqA67TX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JXQrWc7.jpg

Starting to do some works on it, so i dismount the CP and found two old Wico replica leaf joysticks...
http://i.imgur.com/4URGMEZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cMienKF.jpg

Some pics of the mounting points of the glass that makes the "magic" possible....
http://i.imgur.com/b6bVHJW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3l1DNxj.jpg

The central glass is not the way it had to be, so i asked a glass maker, for a correct replacement and i'm waiting for it...
http://i.imgur.com/HOQrqeg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OzTG6j0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/73hdEWD.jpg

Some preliminary test with the three nos 14" monitors i bought for this cab...
(wrong orientation)
http://i.imgur.com/N3UAZ2m.jpg
(now ok )
http://i.imgur.com/hUk1mDm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CV9NzKz.jpg

Joysticks and buttons are now replaced with nos Wico leaf joysticks and nos Seimitsu PS-14-GN buttons
http://i.imgur.com/OHYnNOd.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/maIA8kv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/gfQtkZC.jpg

Here is my hand after i finish this job........
http://i.imgur.com/eB4bXoj.jpg

After all this pain....now it's nearly finished...for now at least....
http://i.imgur.com/14BQSLK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xVKiQy5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SBGlgdw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rRTjPr6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zZFpUhH.jpg

At this time i miss the central smoked glass, sidearts (currently on working by a friend) and some other works here and there, but it's complete and enjoyable
So after more than 25 years i can finally play with it again.

Hi.
I upgraded some Non Net Dimm board to 4.02, using the method from the great TylerDurden.
I have some problems with all of them....
Some days ago i do several test.
All the boards are working without the gdrom cable connected.
It's really strange....
Without the gdrom cable connected, all boots and i can also go in test menu and there it shows 4.02 and good dimm rom....
But if i shutdown the cab, reconnect the gdrom and power the cab, all i have is black screen.....
then i tried with a legit netdimm and it works.
then i tried using the bottom board of the legit netdimm with the top of the normal dimm and it works.
then i tried using the bottom board of the 4.02 non net dimm with the top board of the legit netdim and it works.
if i use bottom and top boards from the 4.02 modified non net dimm it won't boot......never.
so i can't use gdrom....
so they are useless......

I also do some other test yesterday....
I had an original vxworks 3.03 bottom board that worked perfectly with a non net dimm top board......until i upgraded it to 4.02 via netboot......
Yesterday i upgraded the vxworks bottom board to 4.02 via netboot (of course using his net dimm top board)...
flash was fine....
then i tried again the non net dimm top board and also this one is not working if i connect the gdrom drive (or the cf card reader)....black screen......(of course works just fine with the net dimm top board).
if i remove the gdrom cable is boot again (and of course it gave me error of gdrom missing).

Also tried to delete network settings when used the net dimm top board, but that not change anything....
Now i know that is not a problem with the mod, but a problem with the firmware 4.02, since with 3.03 is was working.
Could it be a naomi 2 bios difference?
I use NAOMI2_EXP_EPR-23608_B.
Could be this the problem?
Otherwise i cannot understand why someone have them working but not me.....even with an original vxworks board....
This is really strange.
Here are some pics of mine settings with non net dimm top board/naomi2 bios/settings....
Do you see something wrong?
Thank you.











Thank you.

Arrived two hours ago<-wub->
After years of research (thanks Craig)....
 <-whistling->
Now the restoration is needed.....








Now since i don't like the trackball panel, yesterday i tried the buttons one....



Much much better.....

I love the Punchout and the Gunbuster (and this one is really really rare).....
I hope to have it in position and running in short time.

Wonderful piece of history.
I love it.

Finally after really long time, i start again to take care of my big room.....
Much work to do but what a good moments when i positioned the Manx TT and fired it up after more than two years.....
Would like to share this with you guys....


















Maybe in another two years i'll finish this.....<-lol->  <-lol->

EDIT-....................
Work in progress of the weekend.....

just wonderful