Busted Bubble Bobble Arcade Cabinet

Video taken from Bumpers Arcade, located in Spokane, Washington's Northtown Mall.

The sad thing? This is only one machine out of many, many more that were broken in various ways.

They want $350 for it. The cabinet itself is missing some things, and one of the coin slots is broken.

Very sorry about the background noise, but it's an arcade. Nothing I could do.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• bubble
• bobble
• arcade
• broken
• disaster
• spokane
• nobody
• cares

[Mikej2156]

@linuxlove4004 yup, agreed .

Some ppl do it on the cheap tho and reflash the bad ROM with the mame dumps floating around:)

[figment1988]

one thing that i noted was how even though this is the US version (seeing as it had the Romstar license in the title), the "how to play" text was in japanese

[linuxlove4004]

well, first you need a EEPROM burner, then you need to find out all the detailed tech specs of the cabinet board, then you need to understand whatever programming language the board uses and then, only then can you hack it.

It's better to buy new EEPROMs and put the same game on there.

[retrotails]

Oh, so it's easy to put another game on the EEPROM? Because it sounds awesome to make a hack and play it on a cabinet!

[linuxlove4004]

the EEPROM's hold all the game data, like levels, sprites and music. If those are going bad, then when the CPU reads that address that hold whatever, it will come out messed up.

[retrotails]

Does the EEPROM deal with misc. data like that or is it a result?

[BIGUGLYTROLLvideos1]

GAME OVER

p.s. you won

p.p.p.s☻/

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copy and paste bob he will soon take over youtube

[linuxlove4004]

EEPROM's are probibly going bad.

[13past9]

Shame that it's busted. I used to play the arcade version at this restaurant that I went to as a kid. I almost always ate grilled cheese there.

[DragWx]

I'm tempted to buy it just to see if I can fix it up. o_O I don't have the money though.