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A scratched up pinball is like rolling sandpaper. I like my balls to shine and it makes them play great. A freshly buffed ball on fresh wax screams around the playfield and will spin out and then grab, which is cool to witness. Soon I will be picking up a vibrating polisher to assist with […]
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made a quick vid for the subreddit pinball showing my BorKade
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pinball subreddit The BorKade is very lonely right now.
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A friend who swings by often to play in the basement took Alien Poker home with him Sunday. The funhouse moved out last week. The BorKade is sorta bare now. I am down to the two pinball machines that I will never sell, the Pinbots, and 3 arcade machines. Baby Pacman is my next project. […]
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Link to online article It will be printed in Sundays edition. eeeeeeeeeee That was fun having them over to interview and take pictures. The LJS trolls my message board and gets stories. Matt Olberding contacted me thinking it might make a cool story. He sent it over to Micah and I suggested he hit up […]
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Vs Super Mario Bros high score save and freeplay attract
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A guy on the KLOV website has tinkered with the code for VS Super Mario and has made it so it remembers high scores and will allow you to put it on freeplay, but still have the attract animation. Stock it would not remember high scores and would put some default ones in there. When […]
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Oh man I am very excited. The last bit of parts showed up last week and I installed them. Above is a plastic bit that holds the glass in. It was cracked, held together with tape, and dirty as heck. I replaced it with a new piece and it works great. I also replaced the […]
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I am on cloud 9 right now. I have been working on this machine off and on for a long time. The upstairs remodel distracted me for a while. Once I got back on the machine I simply could not figure out why the lower general illumination was blowing fuses. I would spend under an […]
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I placed my first order through The Real Bob Roberts to get some circuit breakers and fuses. Funny thing about some of the arcade part places is how they seem old timey. Bob is legendary and is the only one who sells some parts. You run into this very often when buying parts for games. […]
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