Not so bad, The cabinet was a very lucky find, and smitt let me buy aqua stage from the dumping union. I know where there were 2 more non workers.. they most likely have gone by now tho as last time i searched was a couple of years ago.
The pcb's are out there but they are in demand as one pcb controls 2 sides of a twin machine. They are also getting to a temperamental age.
The original aqua stage pics are not that bad: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UOT1dXYKBP2Or67WYcflAO1Ydt25bh5a
It's a good thing because my camera only seems to be any good at close up's. Will dig out the pcb soon and get some close ups of everything including the underside.
There are no schematics available, however i believe the guru and Charles have done some trace out work with the hardware in the past. There may also be something on scrap paper about the sound output section as had to do a repair on the surface mount op-amps on the 1st board.
If there's anything in particular you need buzzing out it's no problem at all, or if you want to do a schematic from the pics and have me fill the blanks that can be done also but i don't have time to do the complete pcb..
The PALS are also dumped, but from memory not sure if that's the address mapping on this system or not. Should test the dumps really, when i dig the pcb out for pics they can get tested.
I also have a manual for the jap twin machine cool riders ( one online is the US model ) Picked up 2 scanners to do the job with that but not had the time yet. Need an aqua stage manual to see what needs hooking up for the game to work.
The hardware in general seems to be a tech demo. It's like they spent years on the hardware but got the games made fast and don't use much/any of the extra power.
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