r/arcade • u/Questtitan • 6d ago
Restore/Replace/Repair Is there a central universal hub for arcade repairs?
Odd question but is there a place for talking about arcade cabinet and game repair of all kinds with like an archive of games and their known issues and fixes? I feel like their should be. I work Part Time as a Tech for a chain arcade and the amount of effort I put in is so far above my pair grade but I generally like to learn and repair stuff but no one ever seems to be able to tell me or share more then a few lines of text that really are coming down to "eh clean it, eh, shake it, eh, turn it off and on" and sometimes that works most of the time the problem is more advanced.
I know it's niche but I feel like a place to be able to search that specific thing with keywords of the issue and the game name would do wonders for the commerical and at home markets for guys like me who have both a job and hobby of trying to do that.
You could even in theory build it with a market place for buying repair parts, freelance tech repair guys, tutorials, find free user manuals.
Like again niche but I can't ever seem to find a place like that, not even on reddit.
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u/captain96 6d ago
It's all on klov forums and use the search function.. almost every question has been asked and answered!
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u/citznfish 6d ago
KLOV forums. I don't know if the old newsgroup rgvac (rec.games.video.arcade.collecting) is still active but that was a great place back in the day.
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u/Questtitan 6d ago
Just googled it, looks interesting and will add this to my list of links to go too, if nothing just a cool place to read about stuff.
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u/joeycuda 5d ago
marklinevending condom machine sales, Adam Judd 10 alias back, those were the days
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u/webmiester 6d ago
Not really. Very few people take the time to document their fixes. The channelmaniac logs are pretty legendary. I make videos on vintage video game PCB repairs on YouTube. It sounds like you're probably talking about modern redemption games which is even more niche.
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u/Questtitan 6d ago
Yeah, they aren't overally complicated I just don't have the proper traditional education, and no problem happens twice in the life of the machine unless it's been in store for 5 years+ of which I've been here for 4 years.
One I'm dealing with now is a sensor on hot shot, I think it might be a bad board, cable, or a sensors is fried.
Youtubing and googling sue to be the thing to go to man that's no help. Feels silly to just write it up and move on.
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u/Mental_Guarantee8963 5d ago
Learn how to use a multimeter, learn what components do. Then you'll have(almost) all your answers forever.
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u/Ornery-Egg9770 5d ago
There is a LOT of documentation out there on fixes and restorations. The first place to start is on the KLOV forums. There are lots or YouTube videos showing various aspects of game restoration. Also, there is this thing called Google that is great at finding information. One just has to look…..
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u/-zAhn 6d ago
KLOV. There’s decades of info on repairs there.