Sammy/Satomi miracle arrangeball

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don't remember what i paid exactly but it was a couple hundred bucks for the guy to repair and go thru all the components. i had one of these machines and i don't think there's any proprietary chips as some of the later arrangeballs have. when that's the case and those types of chips are bad then the only recourse is to find a parts machine which are pretty much nonexistent.

Thanks! I took it to the local TV/Radio repair shop that said “bring it in” over the phone but apparently once they got their eyes on the crusty old components on the main board it scared them off, they had never seen an arrangeball before; and he said it could take 2 weeks of work and might not get anywhere. So they declined to work on it.

However, I then drove to my friends house who’s been organizing the group pachinko shipments (to pickup 2 new pachinkos ) who just happens to be deep into the vintage arcade scene and restores old arcade games, has a buddy who tinkers in repairing old arcade game boards; says the guy will replace the capacitors on the boards; for a small fee, so I removed both the boards for him to give to his buddy to take a whack at.

So once those caps are replaced; will reinstall the boards and re-test it.

I was told this was a 1974 model so hopefully no propriety chips.