Star Tech Journal

Issue: 1989-November - Vol 11 Issue 9

Technos WWF
Superstars Update
Merit II Plus 2
Cricket Kit Update
Brian Schorr
Land Of Oz
Stockton, California
Jim Kelly, Customer Service Manager
Merit Industries, Inc.
Bensalem, Pennsylvania
PROBLEM
PROBLEM
Your collections may be dropping on this
game due to a slight but devestating pro-
gramming "bug".
Intermittent scoring of darts. Occasionally,
when a dart hits the segment, it will not score
or count the dart.
SYMPTOM
SOLUTION
The player can simply throw the opponent
out of the ring, beat him up, and re-enter the
ring to win.
Replace the program Eprom in location U 11
of the DRT-425 Interface Pcb. After install-
ing the Eprom, clear the Ram. Put Dip
Switch #1 (DRT-425) in the ON position.
Power up the game, return Dip Switch # 1 to
the OFF position.
SOLUTION
Technos has made update chips available at
no cost to prevent this. Update it, it will bring
the revenue back up! Contact Technos or
your distributor for more information.
Fabtek Toki
Add Player Control
Todd Erickson
Summit Amusement
St. Paul, Minnesota
SUBJECT
In a continued effort to make Fabtek kits the
easiest in the Industry to install, Toki will
incorporate its newest operator feature.
NEW OPTION
Toki now has "Add Player Control" option.
This means that Toki which is a one player
This updated Eprom is available as an ad-
vance replacement item from your local
Merit distributor. If there are any questions
about this program update or any Merit
product, please call Customer Service.
New Industry
Seininar PrograID
GET IT ALL IN ONE WEEKEND!
If you are located around Charlotte, NC,
Chicago, IL or Columbus, OH make sure
that your company owners and technicians
know about the weekend seminars being
given by Frank Seninsky (for owners) and
STAR"TECH Journal (for advancing techni-
cians). See inside back cover adv for details.
game, can be installed in a two player cabi-
net.
Boss to learn, in Just two days, innovative
With this option, the game can be played
with either the right or left player controls.
techniques that will greatly improve your
company's repair efficiency and bottom line!
Don't put this off. Sessions will be limited.
It's a great opportunity for the Techs and the
1988-89 AMOA
Gam.es Winners
Amusement & Music Operators Associa-
tion's 1988-89 Games Awards announced at
an awards banquet during AMOA Expo '89,
the association's annual exposition held
September 11-13 in Las Vegas.
Crime Fighters Into
Gauntlet Cabinet
Brian Sniegocki
B &D Games
Toledo, Ohio
SUBJECli
I have just fmished installing a Konami Crime
Fighters into an Atari Gauntlet cabinet and
would like to share the following information.
Winners of the AMOA
Games Awards were:
PROBLEM
Toe control panel overlay has the holes for the
joysticks and buttons pre-punched. These holes
are 3/8" larger then they should be, and the
bezel of the button can not cover the overlay.
Because of this the old gauntlet control panel
will show around the buttons and joysticks.
SOLUTION
A possible cure is to spray paint the old control
panel black around the buttons and joysticks.
I've done this and it looks good.
RECOMMENDATIONS
X While you have the old buttons
and joysticks off, replace them with
newer, less troublesome devices.
X Because of the way the harness is
wired, it is advisable to mount the
CPU board onto the left side of the
cabinet.
X The wires are quite short, so plug
your coin doors in first and work to
the back of the cabinet.
AMOA is a non-profit organization com-
prised of some 1,400 owners, distributors
and manufacturers of coin-operated amuse-
ment, music and vending equipment.
X You will have to add extra wire to
your video cable.
NOTE
000
When you are finished, save your old Gauntlet
board -you can adapt it to JAMMA and use it as
a good filler in your JAMMA cabinets.

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