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This is a nice solid cabinet in decent shape, currently housing a Capcom MAGIC SWORD games. The cabinet was originally a Stern game, most likely Scramble. But the conversion is actually a pretty quality one. The sides are nice black with artwork on each side. The marquee is in excellent shape and lights up with a fluorescent fixture.
The control panel has Magic Sword artwork underneath a plexiglass protector. The plexi really needs removed and cleaned under, and then this game would really be in nice shape. I just didn't have the time to do this.
The game is almost working. First, the 19" monitor has NO burn on the tube, which is rare. It appears to work, although it is kind of flickery, which could be any number of things. Could be a unstable power supply causing noise on the picture, or could be a bad connection with the flyback to the tube, or a bad or dirty potentiometer, or something else. But anyway, the picture looks pretty good otherwise and should be able to be made stable.
The power supply appears to be fully working and the board is booting up and playing with sound. However, the graphics are kind of messed up. Like the sprites and the background graphics are kind of jumbled. But the game is still playing. So that sounds to me like problem with one of the graphics chips on the game board. Maybe needs the chips re-seated, or maybe one has a leg not in the socket.
The cabinet is missing the back door, but it's an easy thing to replace with plywood. The coin door looks pretty nice, and has two coin mechs. Also, someone wired up and installed a free play button in the lock opening. This could be removed if you wanted to operate this game for coin operation.
Missing coin box. Cabinet does not appear to have water damage. The bottom is still a little rough, though. Most of these stern cabinets are rough on the bottom because they almost never have feet, and that means that they are always just resting with wood on the ground, so every time they are moved, the bottom edge of the wood gets a little banged up.
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