Star Tech Journal

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September 1993
think occurs, running through
all those connections? (See
Figure 1.)
The pot is mounted to the mov-
ing portion of the bike (see Fig-
ure 2) which means the wire
harness has to be attached to
the moving portion of the bike.
Guess what? With the move-
ment of the bike one or more of
the harness wires will eventu-
ally break. And in the most
inconvenient place. (See Fig-
ure 1 again.)
After all this work, it's now
time to reassemble. (Night-
mare on Namco Street Part II.)
The screws came out fairly
~asy but putting them back in
was a bear! For some reason
they used threaded rubber fit-
tings to secure the screws. So
when you go to put the screws
back in, the l'\?-bber fittings
spin instead of receiving the·
screw. I feel sorry for those of
you that have to go through
this at an accounts location. Or
having to move the whole
game back to the shop for re-
pair.
When talking with Namco
(Freddy K) America about the
great design (HaHaHa). They
informed me that the original
Japanese design was much
better. But due to the high cost
~ f importing the bikes and
parts they contracted Dynamo
Corp. of Texas to design and
produce these machines of
self-destruction.
THE WAY THINGS SJ{OULD BE:
STAR*TECH Joumal
.
I
that we didn't have to remove
th~ bike from the pedestal in
order to access the wires.
A better design for getting into
the interior of the bike. Pe.r-
haps some screws. into metal · To wrap it all up. Dynamo
threads to attach the fuel tank
Corp. should employ field
and seat. So after removing
technicians ( that have to work
these two items, you can reach
on this stuff) to work along
in, flip some latches and off
side the engineers -so that we
come the sides of the bike.
can have equipment that is
easy to maintain and repair.
I know they usually do a good
job. I just don't think they have
thought everything through
on some of the games I have
seen.
NOTE
.C)
Figure 2
The pot should be attached to
the NON-MOVING portion of
the bike. So the wire harness
that connects the CPU to the
pot, does not have to be at-
tached to the moving portion of
the bike.
As for the wire harness, there
is no need to have so many
connections for one harness.
And it would have been nice if
they had run it in such a way so
To top it all off, We bought
Capcom's Slam Masters Tour-
nament Edition. It was
shipped straight from Dy-
namo Corp. and came in with a
broken header. So far to date,
Dynamo has attempted to re-
place it 3 times through 3 dif-
ferent carriers. All have come
in with a broken header all in
the same place.
In all 3 cases, the header did
not have any packing. Just
wrapped in plastic and placed
into a box (not marked
"Handle With Care"). Smooth
move Dynamo!!!!