Repairing A Legendary Midway BURGERTIME Dedicated Arcade Game...

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe's Classic Video Games back with another cool arcade game repair video for you this evening. This time, we are working on Valley Midway's famous burger time. Look at that cool artwork. You know, this is one of the coolest cabinets they had back then. Look how his hat sticks out the top of the cabinet. I'm a hamburger. Got some salt and pepper. I guess it's mostly just pepper, but you know. One or two hamburgers can play. Still got the original pepper buttons. Usually the P wears off. You can see this one's about half gone. You can tell everybody was right handed. You're left handed. You want to hit this one. That one's still in good shape. The bezel is still in pretty good shape. Marquee is still in pretty good shape. It's a little faded. Pretty nice. Let's see what this side looks like. Good. Well, I worked on a few of these. This guy's machines before. And he's got a bunch of stuff. He's been bringing them down for me one at a time. And I've been fixing them. This is the fourth one. I think fourth or fifth one we fixed for him. So he told me what was wrong with it. And you're never going to believe it. This one's broke. OK, so here's what he told me happened. He had that Southern Fried Gaming Expo in 2016. And this thing's got a Sanyo monitor in it. OK, normally they would have had a G07 or a 4900 or something like that. So this thing's got a Sanyo monitor in it. He had it at the expo. Something happened to the monitor. OK, at the expo. So I guess people were trying to troubleshoot it. And they made a major mistake, I think. So this is where your monitor usually gets its power from. And this comes out of the isolation transformer down there. OK, so this power is all isolated. Yeah, well, somebody at the expo or maybe he did. I think he probably did it, but he didn't want to admit to it. But basically, they cut the power going to the monitor and then they spliced it into this plug and they plugged it in to this service outlet. This is for like your soldering iron or something. If you're working on it, you know that power is not isolated. So whenever they did that, they fried the monitor even more than it already was. Something was going on with it already, probably. And that's why they were troubleshooting it. But yeah, you can't plug this. You can't plug that monitor into a regular outlet. It's got to be isolated, OK? So this is normally like a Nintendo. So this would be in like a Donkey Kong or a Popeye or Playtoys or something like that. So this is a Sanyo monitor. So they basically fried the monitor whenever they were messing around with it. They didn't know what they were doing. It's already been pretty hacked up. Like, I don't even know what the heck all this is. Where do you think that goes to? It looks like they spliced in the. Yeah, where's the video? Oh, I guess they had it rigged up. OK. All right. So this is the video connector that they had rigged up to go in here. This is a much smaller connector than you would usually have. But anyway, the guy, he's kind of sick of this Sanyo. I could probably fix this Sanyo. It burn up some diodes probably in there and bridge rectifier and yada, yada, yada. But this isn't even a monitor that's supposed to be in here, though. This is a Japanese Sanyo monitor. We've been in Donkey Kong. So he wants me to take this out and put in a G07 or a 4900 because that's what would originally been in here. It's also supposed to have the little tinted monitor bezel. It's missing that. And the plastic, the plastic monitor bezel and the piece of tinted plexiglass is supposed to be under here. I don't have a Pac-Man handy to show you, but it would have been the same on Pac-Man and Galaga. So I'm going to look around, see if I can find him a 4900. I think I've got one at home and one of my trailers I'm going to bring in and cap it for him, put it in there. I just I just hope his board's still good. He also wants me to change the power supplies. Got a crappy little power supply in here. So first things first, let's get the 4900. We'll bring it in, we'll cap it, get it all working on the bench, and then we'll try to slide it in the burger time. Well, I kind of had to change the plans. I got all these boards here. Every once in a while, I like to get one off, fix it and use it. A lot of these are parts boards or cracked, but I just got this G07 in on trade and it's pretty dirty, but it looks a lot worse than it is. The back of it is actually really nice. It's complete. And I got a G07 monitor over there in the floor, right there. Got all these two, but these aren't mine. Well, that one is, but it's a VGA only. And these two were dropped off to be rebuilt. So I think I'm going to take this in the back room and wash it off. I usually don't do that. I usually just cap right through the dirt. But this one's a little excessive. This one's actually pretty dirty. So you can actually just wash this off with some soapy water, but make sure you let it sit, you know, for a couple of days before you try it out afterwards. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take it in the sink back there. Rinse it all down with some soapy water. Wash it all off. Let it dry. And I'm obviously I'm going to change all the caps to fly back. This one actually has a good width coil. Looks like I've changed this FR401. Got to reflow the header. Depends where the video plugs in. We're not going to need this. This is the gal's. I guess somebody cut it off a tube. But I'll be back when I get all this cap cleaned and back on the tube. How's that sound? All right. So now I'm going to let it dry out for a while. It already looks better, though. It was pretty dirty. I've got to take this flyback out anyway. I always change the flybacks. So whenever I take that out, I'll clean a little bit better around it. But there you go. I'll let it dry out a while. Then I'm going to recap it, change the flyback, do all that good stuff, and then we'll try it out. All right. It's the next day. It's dried out a little bit. It's pretty much dry. I realize it's still kind of dirty there and it's still kind of dirty there. It'll be fine, OK? It's a lot better than what it was. And if you want to do something like this, you need a good soldering iron, OK? This is the one we use. It's a Weller. We've had it. We've had this one for probably eight years, probably. And we use it every single day. And we had one just like this before. We got the exact same one. And we've had that one for probably 15 years. And it actually still works perfectly fine. But what happened was it fell off the desk a few times. We had it sitting right here. Sometimes we shoot it over there just to get a little bit more room. And it fell off the table. The plastic was brittle and it cracked in half. Still worked perfectly fine. And we used it that way for a few years. And then we dropped it off the table again. It broke some more. It still worked perfectly fine. But eventually, you know, the case was all cracked. We still got it around here somewhere, somewhere. It's still here. But we just got this one because the other one was cracked. But we've been using this thing every day for at least eight years now. Works perfect. So if you need one of those, there's a link to our on our website. LionsArcade.com. If you click parts, you can click the link for this soldering iron. And if you click that link, it'll take you to Amazon where you can buy it and it'll give us a little piece of the sale. OK, if you don't even want a soldering iron and if you click that link and then you buy some paper towels or something, it's still going to give us a little tip for sending you there because you clicked our link first. So if you don't want to buy anything that I'm telling you to buy, just click that link first and forget everything else. OK, so we appreciate everybody that's been doing that. That really helps us out at the end of the month. But anyway, this is a 19 inch G07 monitor. It's pretty much the most common monitor they made. It was in everything. It was in Pac-Man, Miss Pac-Man, Galaga, BurgerTime, anything you can think of in the early 80s this baby was in. And a lot of people like this monitor because it's real reliable. You can pretty much just shotgun it. You could change the flyback, the caps, make sure this little fuse is good and the horizontal output transistor over there. If you do all that and put it in 95 percent of the time, it's going to work just fine. And so there's a little bit of a debate on the flyback. And I'm going to give you my theory. I've kept a ton of these way more than you would ever believe. OK, so something happens whenever you change the caps. It puts extra stress on the original flyback and it blows up the flyback. That's just how it is. I've seen them where the dang thing has been snapped in half and the top is laying in the bottom of the cabinet. Sometimes it's just cracked. But I've seen several that have been snapped in half. It just flies off the board. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I've seen it happen. And the people who say that they don't change the flyback aren't playing their games, they may play it five, 10 minutes, then turn it off and let it sit for six months and turn it back on and play it for five or 10 minutes. But I put these things to the test. I let them run for eight hours a day, sometimes 10 hours, you know, and it won't do that on the original flyback. So I've learned to just change the flyback. I know you don't want to spend that extra 40 bucks. I don't either. But if you don't do it now, you're going to have to do it, you know, in a month when the dang thing blows up. So I'd rather do it now because I don't want any callbacks. The only way I want them to call me back and say, Oh, thank you, Joe. Oh, thank you so much. You did an excellent job. Oh, I love you. Oh, let me give you some more money, Joe. Oh, I'm going to tell everybody what a great job you're doing. Oh, thank you so much, Joe. You're the greatest. Let me buy another machine from you. That's the only type of call I want. I don't want them calling me yet. I can hear the game playing and I just can't see nothing on the screen. Is there a bulb in there I can change? Do they got that at Walmart? You think I could get a it's probably just a fuse. OK, it's not the fuse. The flyback is snapped in half and it's laying in the bottom of the cabinet is what happened. Let me tell you something, OK? I've changed so many of those G07 monitors. I had to start buying the flybacks by the case, OK? That's an entire case of G07 monitor flybacks. That's a 7000 case. There's another G07 case. And I had another case up there that was G07. I don't went all through that case. I'm halfway through that case. Yeah, we were changing them so much, I started buying them by the case. OK, just showing I'm just telling you, I'm telling you that's the way it is on them flybacks. Nobody wants to believe me. But anyway, I'm going to put that flyback in there. Put it in that tube over there. My tubes got a little Pac-Man burn, but you're not going to be able to tell once I put the tinted bezel on there and all that, get it all buttoned back up. It'll be fine. I got to use that tube on something. Anyway, I bought a bunch of parts the other day from a guy. It's hard to even sell stuff like this anymore because the shipping is so freaking expensive. I mean, I got a double dragon control panel. I got several centipede control panels. I got a red tent control panel. That one came off a Nintendo cabinet that somebody made it into a street fighter. But, you know, nobody wants to pay the shipping. It's going to cost 30, 40 bucks just to ship it. And the only person interested in it is going to be on the totally other side of the country. I can't get nobody in South Carolina interested in buying a part. Anytime I list something for sale and include the shipping, they're in California every time. California. Oh, I'll take it. And it's always when I got shipping included on the price. You guys know how it is. Leave it down in the comments if that happens to you. And if you're in California and you're selling something, you're having the same problem. The people in South Carolina want to buy it. And then you got to pay the shipping all the way here. That's just how it is. That's always how it is. But anyway, I'm just rambling on now. All right. I got to get it all put back together. We're going to put it in that tube, set it up on the bench and make sure everything works good. And then we'll take that out, slide it in the cabinet and hopefully it'll work perfect. All right. I got it back in the tube. Seems to be working just fine. I'll probably have to adjust the colors and stuff on it a little bit once I get it in the burger time. But here's our basic setup here. That's an isolation transformer basically in the box. And it's got all these fancy settings on it so I can I can adjust it to 100 volt, 120 volt, whatever I want to do. And I've got my monitor plugged into there. Just got to jam a board, a little cheap little multi game board. These are my start buttons. That's my credit button. That's my test button. And that's my A and B button. If I want to play a game and try to make sure the board's working. I usually have it set up here if I'm testing a board, but I've got my video jumper twice, so I don't have to unhook that one. I left it long so I can run it down to this board if I wanted to. So I'm testing to jam a board. I put it on the bench and I play it on that screen. If it needs to have VGA or I'm burning chips or something for a board, I'm on that screen. There's my microwave in case I want some chips and dip on Sunday. And here's the whatever monitor I'm working on here. It's really a mess right now. You can tell I always listen to that hippie power supply, power supply, power supply. Most of these actually work, but you know, we put new ones in all the ones that we sell. And I, you know, every once in a while, I'll test these, make sure they're getting good voltage, and then I'll sell four or five of them at a time. But we always put new power supplies in all of our games. This is what we do every time we don't. It seems to bite us in the butt. So I've got crap everywhere right now, but I'm going to let this run for a little bit, let it run for a couple hours, and then I'll put it in the burger time and see if we can get the rest of it finished up. OK, so now we've got to get this Sanyo out of here and we need these bars. So we're going to unbolt in here. Here is another one right there and another one right there. And we're going to slide the whole thing out. We'll lay it in the floor. And we're going to unbolt here and here from the frame. And then we're going to bolt it onto this frame here and here. And then we're going to slide the whole shebang right in there and then we'll wire it up. OK. OK, we got our little cross bars on. And we're just going to pick up the whole thing up. Slide it in here like so. Wham! There we go. So now we have to make a new connector for this. So to hook in here and we have to make another video connector because they done hacked this one all up. This won't fit on that monitor. It would only fit on the Sanyo Nintendo one. So I have to cut this off and put a new video connector on there. We'll put a new power connector on there and that'll be that. All right, so we're going to do the power connector. And if you don't have a pair of these, you need to get a pair. If you do a lot of this type of stuff. This is probably my favorite thing that I'll recommend to people. We've got a link to this on our website. If you go to lionsarcade.com, click the parts page, you'll see these there. And these are really good. These are up there with the soldering iron. These are as good as the soldering iron. If you got to have these, it's some good stuff. So we're going to trim a little bit back like that. Trim a little bit back like that. Do a little twist, do a little twist. All right, and here is the part number. For these pins. See that there? Those are the pins we're using. And then put the pin in the little crimpers here. You stick it in and then wham, just like that. Perfect crimp. OK, I'm going to do the other one. Perfect crimp. OK. All right. And here's the part number. For this, put that in Google, I'm sure it'll bring you to them. And then we're just going to slide these in this connector. There's little little wings on these pins. If you push them in, you'll hear a clicking sound. It snaps in there. Bam, just like that. Now, a lot of people, they probably would have just black taped that. We do it the right way around here. Top of the line, OK? So I'm basically going to do the same thing with the video connector. They use different pins, but I won't bore you with that. It's the same thing. Red, green, blue, ground, sink. So I got to put a new connector on this and I'll be back when I get that done. All right. I got the monitor in there. I got it wired up, got plugged in. See if it'll do anything. Nothing did. It's the only interlock switch on there. It's the only power switch on there. So what probably happened is whenever they plugged that and directly to the without being isolated, it probably blew the main fuse or maybe the cords bad on. This thing's been sitting around for 10 years. I don't know if he caught that earlier, but it he was at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo in 2016 and it is now 2026. And he's just now bringing it in to get repaired. It's been sitting in his garage for 10 years, apparently. All right. So first thing we're going to do is we want to check to make sure our power cord is good. Let's see here. Our power cord is good. So now we're going to check the fuses. This one looks good. That fuse is good. I can get the other one out. I got them all the way. Well, the other one's stuck down in there. Maybe I can use this top to grab it. Nope. The other fuse fell all the way down through somehow. So that stinks. Now I got to take the whole brick out of it. I got to unbolt the whole. Assembly down here now. People bring their stuff in and it's just the biggest basket cases. Sometimes, you know, then they're like, oh, yeah, it's just probably just needs another monitor basket case. Now we know why it's been sitting around for 10 years and nobody else fixed it. All right. Well, I'm going to unbolt all that and see if I can get that fuse out of there. All right. Got this out, but now I'm going to take this cover off. Imagine a fuse is going to be floating around in there somewhere. There it is. The fuse is not bad, but I don't know if it was making a good connection with this holder. It was not. See what's going on here. The holder broke, and that's why we weren't getting any power. I don't know if you can see that, but the holder broke. So I'm going to put a new holder in there and hopefully that'll fix that. The fuse wasn't blown, but the holder was bad. So I'll try to find one of those and I'll get that swapped in for him, and hopefully that'll fix our AC problem. We're not getting any AC into the cabinet. And hopefully the everything else is good. I mean, this thing's been sitting for 10 years. I'm hoping the board's good and I don't have to do anything to it. We'll see. All right. I got the fuse changed. The fuse holder changed. Still plugged down. Let's try it again. Sounds like we might have turned on that time lights on. People get all worried about the burning. Don't you worry about that burning? That's actually mild burning, light burning. Still not getting any video, but I'm going to check our power supply. Doesn't have any AC going to it. That's why it ain't working. They must have had the other monitor tied into it. Yeah. So this they plug this into the bottom of the cabinet and then they had it spliced here, and that was probably going over to the power supply. Then they had it spliced again up there. All right. So I got to get some AC going over to my power supply, and I'm actually going to swap that power supply anyway, because I want to put a new one in it. I don't like that kind. That's I've had bad luck with those, and it's old as dirt. So we're going to change it. Try it again. OK, we've got our new power supply in. Let's try it now. Sounds better. Looks like it's on. I got to adjust it now because I had it adjusted for the other game, but my blue is way too high. Obviously, my vertical hold is off. I know what you're thinking. Joe, that's not vertical. That's horizontal. Well, the monitor is in the cabinet sideways, so it actually is vertical. See what's happening here. But what I was saying about that burn in, you're not going to know that this thing's got burn in once I put the tinted glass on there and get it all trimmed out. People who worry about the burn in are actually they're hurting the hobby, really, because if you're concerned about a little tiny bit of burn in that you're not even going to see after you get it in there, you know, there's only so many tubes out there. So you're wasting good tubes. If your tube still got good color and is nice and vibrant and all that, you better leave it alone because there's only so many tubes out there. If you're hoarding all the tubes and you're not, you know, you're just wasting them, you're wasting them, OK? So anyway, and guess what? That new tube you put in there, it's going to get burn in on it. Also, if you leave it on for a while, but in a house, in a home environment, this tube will probably last forever. I know it's got a little Pac-Man burn in on it, but you're not even going to see it once I get it all dialed in and get the tenon plexi on it, OK? So anyway, I'm going to adjust the monitor a little bit, clean up my wiring inside a little bit, and then we'll see if we can play a game. Hopefully everything works good. And I can call this guy and tell him to come give me that money. Well, I was actually sitting here thinking, here's what must have happened at the gaming expo, OK? Something happened and rattled the cabinet or whatever. That fuse holder messed up. OK. And then, you know, none of the nothing was working. So somebody must have checked the cord. And they were like, well, we're getting power over to here. We're getting power over to there. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut them. I don't know if you remember at the beginning, they had this cut where the power was coming in originally. It must have cut it. And they were like, well, I know I'm getting power down now. Let me stick it down in there. So they may have actually if somebody knew what they were doing and went over there and, you know, figured out the fuse problem, they probably could have got up and running. But somebody cut the wiring and then plugged it in to the non isolated. And then they fried that other Sanya. So they I think they took a minor problem and they turned it into a major problem whenever they started messing around with stuff that they didn't understand. That's my theory. You can see where somebody had this part spliced. This was still plugged into the outlet. If you look at the beginning and somebody had it twisted on here and plugged into the outlet for some reason. So I can't do that. That's a big no, no. So anyway, let me keep working on it and getting buttoned up. I don't have much time, but I'm going to see if I can play a quick level for you. You only have five peppers to start with, so you kind of got to be careful with how you use them. I kind of wasted that one, but I wanted to get the ice cream. Oh, crap. There you go. You get the idea. You're trying to make hamburgers, but I'm kind of out of time for today, but thanks, everybody, for watching. We really appreciate it. We'll see you on the next one. Thanks to all of our people using our Amazon links. We really appreciate it. And we got lots more videos to film for you. Check back next time. Always tons of stuff to work on.