Probably the best $60 I have ever spent

You paid $60 for all that?? Great haul, what the hell, I would have paid more *just* for the C64C. Love that design. I have a breadbox C64, wanna trade?

Try reseating all the socketed roms first.

Hey, thanks for your reply =} Unfortunately that isn't the issue.

I did, however, obtain a new tool (chip extraction tool) and learn how to clean socketed chip legs from your advice though! Would appreciate any other hints or advice from anyone else reading too. Cheers!

Hi all,

I'm new to troubleshooting PCBs so any guidance is appreciated. I'm almost done restoring my Jr. (original cabinet + PCB). Only thing wrong with the PCB/game itself seems to be that the / cage sprite is separated with a single horizontal line at his neck. Looks like Mario took a chainsaw to him out of frustration or something =p Nothing else about the gameplay or sprites seem to be off (though admittedly I haven't gone through all of the levels yet ;}).

Not sure exactly where to start. I don't have a logic probe but I do have a multimeter and not afraid to get my hands dirty. Anyone else had this (or a similar) issue and solved it? Thanks for any insight. A sidenote is that I'm thinking about getting a high-score save kit and remember it mentioning it replaces the game ROM itself - would that inadvertently fix the DK sprite issue?

Hi all, first arcade game I ever played was Double Dragon at a Round Table Pizza in 1988. I was hooked at a very young age of 8! I have many countless fond memories of playing that along with all of the other greats back then in grocery stores, malls, restaurants, convenience stores..  Close to 20 years later I was lucky enough to score a Double Dragon on eBay for dirt cheap in its original cabinet about 3 hours away. We rented a truck and took the whole day to drive there and back, on my birthday mind you, for it. It was awesome. =} I restored it over the next year, learning a lot.

I'm currently restoring a & Jr. paired cabinets that are in pretty damn good shape considering how old they are. I'll be asking questions about those, and hopefully in the future with more games I get! John's Sanyo EZ monitor re-cap / rebuild video on YouTube helped me through doing that kind of thing for the first time. It's awesome getting more into this hobby and learning more about arcade restoration & repair, including the electronics side of things.

Big thanks to John and everyone here for being awesome!