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Randy Fromm

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I, for one, am getting pretty tired of seeing vastnumbers of slot machines on the floor withtoppers that read “New Game.” I get especially

perturbed when it’s a game that clearly is not newbut has been on the floor for months or longer. Theterm “New Game” loses its cachet completely whenit’s overused.

This month we welcome back Vic Fortenbach with anice tutorial on programming the Bally Alpha ProSlot topper. You can make your own movie or slideshow and Vic will talk you through it. Best thing ofall, it won’t cost you a cent.

We have a new contributor this month. SunilDavidson is the slot manager for a venerated cruiseship line that we are forbidden to reveal on penaltyof being buried at sea in an old S2000 cabinet. Hisfirst contribution is a short piece entitled Bally ReelBoard Error. Thanks, Sunil. Keep ‘em coming if youcan.

Pat Porath has another in his “Quick & SimpleRepairs series. Thanks, Pat.

Attention anyone in the Caribbean or looking for aCaribbean visit that’s a total business write-off: Iwill be holding a four-day, regional slot tech classon the island of St. Kitts, January 12-15. It will beheld at the Marriott Hotel and Royal Beach Casino.See the website at slot-techs.com for details. Thereare just 10 openings in the class.

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Last month my bosscalled me into hisoffice.

“Vic, you know the newBally Alpha Pro slot ma-chines we have been plac-ing on the floor?”

“Yes,” I replied.

“Have you seen the toppersthese new machines have?”

“Yes.”

“Is there a way we can putour casino name and infor-mation on these toppersinstead of just the “NewGame” message?”

“Yes, there is!”

Having opened my mouth, Inow have a project to do. Iwalked to the casino floor toget a better look at theseBally toppers and how thedisplayed information couldbe changed.

The video topper displaysthe game title as well assome animation whichloops back to the beginning

Customizing Toppers

about every 15 seconds.Some of the graphics arepretty cool looking butothers just display “HotNew Game.” Before I duginto the hardware of whatmakes these toppers tick, Icontacted our Bally servicerepresentative. He was kindenough to provide me aninfo sheet. This sheet de-tailed some of the factsregarding the video topper.

The video topper has a15.6” LCD monitor with aresolution of 1360 x 768.The frame rate of the videocontroller is 24 frames persecond, the same as amovie you would see in atraditional movie theaterthat uses film. The maxi-

mum file storage is 2gigabytes.

A power cable and 15 pinVGA cable connect to thetopper and run down theinside of the back of theslot machine. Dependingon the theme of the game,the 15 pin VGA cable fromthe topper connects one oftwo ways:

The first and best way forcustomization is the use ofa video player circuit board.This board is mounted upinside the cabinet, behindthe top monitor or, in thecase of the V32 cabinet; it’sbehind the main monitor,up inside and near the top.This video player board

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requires no connection tothe game’s logic board. Theconnections on this boardare just 12 volts powerinput, a VGA output and aUSB thumb drive port. AnSD memory card port isalso available on board but Ihave never seen it used. Onpower up, this board isdumb and just runs pro-grams from the USB thumbdrive; no inputs and noother outputs are used.

On some occasions, theUSB thumb drive is con-nected to a short extensioncable and mounted to abracket that is closer andeasier to reach from thefront of the machine. Thismakes changing the USBthumb drive a lot easier,since you don’t have toreach your hand into un-known darkness to reachthe thumb drive.

Since the data for the top-per is contained on theUSB thumb drive, it’s agood idea to back up thedata. Thumb drives do failand if you don’t have asecond game with the sametheme, you may be out ofluck when one does fail.

Backing up the data iseasy; any personal com-puter running windows willdo the trick. The topperdata is just one AVI file thatis less than 1 gig in size.Since the AVI file is notnamed with the gamestheme, you will have torename it when saving it onyour PC. When replacingthe thumb drive, any

thumb drive will work. Weuse the old red thumbdrives from a revoked IGTinstall. First, reformat thethumb drive then copy theAVI file to the replacementthumb drive. This erasesthe old IGT data and copiesthe saved game theme datato this replacement thumbdrive. You can have aninventory of thumb drivesready to go or you can copythe data from the computerto the thumb drive whenneeded.

The second way Bally choseto provide data for the top-per is a direct connection tothe logic board’s video card.With this connectionscheme, toppercustomization is not pos-sible. To determine if youcan create custom topper

data, just look for the videoplayer circuit board. One ofour Bally cabinets had adirect connection to thelogic board for the topperAND the video player boardmounted inside the cabi-net. The video player boardjust needed a thumb driveand the VGA cable removedfrom the logic board andconnected to the videoplayer board. We copied thedata from a second “HotNew Game” thumb drive toa spare thumb drive. Thismade the topper functionas a customizable topper.

Since the displayed topperdata is all contained on athumb drive, changing it issimple; you just replace thethumb drive. However,there is one step to creatingcustom data for display on


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the topper. You have tocreate the data. The data onthe thumb drive is in theformat of an AVI file. AVI isan acronym for “Audio-Video Interleaved.” Thistype of file acts as a “con-tainer” for both audio andvideo data. Since the videotopper does not have aspeaker, there is no need tocreate any audio for thenew topper file.

Creating the program forthe topper is not effortlessbut the results can beamazing. First, you willneed a program that youcan use to assemble theimages and pictures thatwill be displayed on thetopper. There are lots ofvideo editing programsavailable. Some are freeand some cost upwards of$300.00+. The free one thatI have used is WindowsMovie Maker. It’s a simpleprogram with an easylearning curve and no fancybells and whistles. Theversion I have is on mywindows XP workbenchcomputer. There are freeversions of Windows MovieMaker available for Vista,Windows 7 and Windows 8.You will have to downloadthem from the Microsoftwebsite since they do notcome with the newer ver-sions of Windows. Makesure you download theprogram directly fromMicrosoft; some otherdownload sites have theprogram but they maycontain viruses.

The Movie Maker version for

Windows 7 and 8 are part ofthe Microsoft Essentialsprogram suite. You candownload just the MovieMaker program or the com-plete Essentials programsuite. There are severalversions of Move Makeravailable; all of them willwork for creating topperdata. Just download theversion for your computer’soperating system. With theMovie Maker program in-stalled and working on mycomputer it was time forthe fun part.

Content for your videotopper does have somerestrictions that you mustkeep in mind. As men-tioned previously, the videotopper resolution is 1360 x768. This means any stillpictures or video you aregoing to use must be thatsize. Larger pictures willnot display and smallerpictures may look blurry orpixelated . If your picture issmaller than 1360 x 768,black bars might display onthe left and right sides ofthe picture displayed onthe topper. These blackbars are not necessarily abad thing. This is due tothe video controller tryingto make the picture fit intothe 1360 x 768 size.

I decided for my customvideo topper movie, I wasjust going to create asimple slide show. Thevideo controller would dis-play each “slide” for a fewseconds and move or transi-tion on to the next one. Youcan use any camera to take

pictures, even a cell phonecamera.

Another way to get somepictures is to surf theinternet. I found severalpictures that were taken byour local newspaper andposted to their website thatcould be downloaded.

Once you have the picturesyou want to use, MovieMaker makes it easy to useto assemble the picturesinto a “slide show” videomove file. As a bonus, Win-dows Movie Maker allowscool transitions that can beinserted in-between pic-tures. These transitionsinclude fading betweenpictures and several updown and left right wipes.You can also adjust thetime the picture remains onthe screen as well as add-ing titles to your movie. Iwould not recommendusing the titles, since theydo tend to look cheap andyou cannot overlay thetitles onto your pictures,they have to be on theirown solid colored screen.

Once you have your moveassembled on the WindowsMovie Makers timeline andyou’re happy with the re-sults, it’s time to save yourmovie. Clicking “save” willallow you to save your moveas a WWM (Windows MovieMaker) file to your harddisk as a Windows MovieMaker project. This willallow you to change any ofthe pictures or transitionsin your original slide showat a later time. To save your


video file to a format thatthe video topper will recog-nize, you will need to clickon “save as” in the MoverMaker file menu. You willthen be prompted to saveyour movie to a specificvideo format. The AVI(NTSC) video format withthe highest screen resolu-tion and frame rate (24frames per second) willwork the best. If your Win-dows Movie Maker versionlists a digital video option,choose that one.

When I saved my slide showto the AVI format, I foundthat the slide show did notloop. It played once andstopped with a blackscreen. After some experi-mentation, I found that anMP4 video format will loopcorrectly. However the MP4format is not available inthe Movie Maker program.

Once I had my slide showin the AVI format, I neededto convert it to the MP4format. Thank goodness forthe internet. On theinternet is a file conversionprogram named ZamZar(www.zamzar.com). Thisprogram is free and willconvert AVI files to MP4 fileformat, as well as a wholebunch of other file formats.Since ZamZar sends you afile conversion completenotice, you will need an e-mail address to use thisprogram. The conversion isfree but it will take a fewminutes once you haveuploaded your AVI file toZamZar. The free uploadedfile size is limited to 100MB

which is enough for mostvideo slide shows.

After your file has beenconverted, save it to yourhard drive and copy it to athumb drive. Insert thethumb drive into the USBport on the video controllerboard inside the Ballycabinet and power up themachine. There will be adelay of about 10 secondsfor the video controller toload the program and ini-tialize. Once the controllerhas started to run the slideshow, just sit back andenjoy.

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TechFest 31 was ablast. The ParagonCasino had requested

that I bring TechFest totheir property in Marksville,Louisiana. Located aboutthree hours drive from NewOrleans, the Paragon is abeautiful property with allthe amenities located in anextremely rural setting inCentral Louisiana.

We had an excellent pre-sentation on HAKKO sol-dering equipment andproper soldering tech-niques from HAKKO trainerRick Salberg and MichaelCarlson of the IPS Group.After their formal presenta-tion, we opened up thebeer bar and had fun usingall to gear ourselves topractice SMD rework on avariety of PCBs.Class Picture: Notice James (farright) is wearing his Ceronixbarbecue apron. He won it as adoor prize.


Left: Brian Looper represented Ceronix(LCD monitors) with their awesome and well-received Ceronix Monitor Repair Lab. Brianbrought an entire pallette of booby-trappedmonitors for a hands-on repair lab and defec-tive LCD panels for disassembly practice.

Right: My hero Russ Wige fromTransact Technologies and theirEpic 950 printer. Russ was feelingunder-the-weather but he still madeit all the way out to the Paragon forhis presentation. Thanks, Russ. Weall really appreciate it very much.

Below: In his first time presenting atTechFest, experienced trainer ToddAase gave a really great class onthe MEI (now CPI) SC66 billvalidator.

In addition, Dan Petersen of JCM gave apresentation on the JCM bill acceptorsand Futurelogic printers. I totally failedto snap his picture. Oops. Thanks, Dan.

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Aruze No SoundAruze No SoundAruze No SoundAruze No SoundAruze No Sound

I had an Aruze game inwhich the previous shiftstated there weren’t any

sound effects at all. Thegame had been rebooted,USB connections reseatedand other connections werechecked without success. Idid the same ending upwith the same result; nosound was coming from thespeakers at all.

When checking into itfurther, there was one pinkwire and a blue wire goingto a speaker. On thebrainbox there was a con-nector plugged into a cardwith the same color wireson it. Could this be thesound card for the game? Itwas removed but whenlooking at it, I couldn’t tellfor sure if it was indeed forsound or not. In the shop, aco-worker looked up aprocessor chip on the cardto see what it was. The chipcame up to be for audioprocessing. Now I knew forsure it was the sound card.I removed the card from a

spare brain box and put itin the game’s brain box.During boot up I had theinfamous Aruze “door openbeep” which indicated theoriginal sound card was infact bad.

Konami Podium GameKonami Podium GameKonami Podium GameKonami Podium GameKonami Podium GameWouldn’t Clear “PaperWouldn’t Clear “PaperWouldn’t Clear “PaperWouldn’t Clear “PaperWouldn’t Clear “PaperJam” ErrorJam” ErrorJam” ErrorJam” ErrorJam” Error

An Epic Transact 950wouldn’t clear a paper jamerror in the game. It wasreplaced with a spare.When the unit was put onthe bench, the paper jamerror may have beencaused by a bad ticket-taken sensor. Usually sim-ply cleaning it with a flatdry cotton swab fixes it (Iflatten swabs with pliers soit fits into the sensor areaeasily). This time, the sen-sor was still failing off andon after a few cleanings.The ticket-taken sensor(Transact part number 95-05152L) was replaced witha new one which workedperfectly.

To test a ticket taken sen-sor on the bench, power upthe printer with a lightedbezel plugged into it. Feedthe printer with paper andprint a self test ticket. In-stead of totally removingthe ticket from the printer,slightly remove it so it just

passes the sensor, thenslightly insert ticket so itobstructs the sensor. Whenobstructed, the lightedbezel is supposed to flashrapidly. Without obstruc-tion, the bezel should notflash at all. This happensONLY IF the ticket tray haspaper, the unit is fullyinserted into printer frameand paper is fed into theprint head. If any of thesethings are incorrect, the

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bezel will flash slowly. Onceeverything is good with theprinter and it’s in an idlestate, the bezel will stay litand not flash. I’ve run intothis on a few Bally EVOgames as well, where thebezel would flash rapidly.The game wouldn’t alwaysappear with an errorthough. An easy cleaningdoes the trick most of thetime.

IGT G20 Bad Boot ChipIGT G20 Bad Boot ChipIGT G20 Bad Boot ChipIGT G20 Bad Boot ChipIGT G20 Bad Boot Chipor Bad Hard Drive?or Bad Hard Drive?or Bad Hard Drive?or Bad Hard Drive?or Bad Hard Drive?

Has anyone seen a “Firm-ware BIOS CRC checkingfailed” error on an IGT?This was the first time I hadrun into this specific erroron a game. My first thoughtwas a bad brain box. Thismakes sense because thereis a BIOS chip in the brainbox of the game. I was notreally sure what to checkfor so a phone call wasmade for assistance. I wastold to carefully check theribbon cable FROM thebrain box TO the backplane board. Inspect it forany bad kinks, pinches orany copper wire showing.Also, check both ends forany bent pins. Next, re-place the interface boardlocated inside the brainbox. This is the board thathas two button batteries onit and this is the board thatthe ribbon cable plugs into(ribbon cable plugs intointerface board on thebrain box).

Another item on this boardis a boot chip. The chipHAS to match the boot chipon main board of the brain

box otherwise weird thingswill happen such as thegame may boot part way upthen totally freeze or maybenot even boot up at all.

After replacing the com-plete brain box, the errorstill came up. Next, brainboxes were swapped with agame that had the exactsame theme. This time, thegame totally booted up.What the . . .? After somegood old swaptronics, wefound out that the originalboot chip on the interfacecard was bad. Quite un-usual, in my opinion. Whenthe exact replacement chipwas replaced, the gamebooted up and worked fine.

Ainsworth Coming UpAinsworth Coming UpAinsworth Coming UpAinsworth Coming UpAinsworth Coming UpWith Door Open ErrorsWith Door Open ErrorsWith Door Open ErrorsWith Door Open ErrorsWith Door Open Errors

I received a complaint thatan Ainsworth game keptcoming up with “main dooropen errors.” When themain slot door was slightlypulled forward, the dooroptic would read a CLOSEDstate. When fully closed itwould sometimes read aDOOR OPEN condition.Upon further investigationand checking out where thedoor optics are located, onenear the bottom part of themain slot door somehowbecame slightly loose. Itwas pointing at about a 45degree angle. No wonder ithad door open issues. Aftersnugging the optic in place,the game was fine.

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Hello Slot Tech readers. My name isSunil Davidson and

I have been a Slot Managerfor the last 15+ years onboard cruise lines. I alsorunwww.casinodynamics.comwhich will in the near fu-ture be designed to be agreat resource for SlotTechs.

Inspired by the writings ofPatrick Porath and mywillingness to share knowl-edge with my fellow techsbrings me to this first con-tribution of mine via theSlot Tech magazine,thanksto Randy. I still rememberreading Randy’s material16 years ago when I startedmy career as a trainee techon board cruise line. Al-though I had an electronicsbackground prior to choos-ing the career as a tech, Iwas utterly confused by slottechnology in those times.Slot machines, except forGame Kings and a fewother games had CRTs. Allthe rest like the S+ andBally Pro Slots lacked anykind of video screens or dotmatrix displays except forthe venerable 7 segmentLED displays. Most confus-ing in those times were themeter readings that we hadto take at the end of every

cruise: Bill meters andjackpot meters specifically.

Nowadays it’s a breeze withall the LCD screens andVFD displays. We used tohave a thick folder full oftechnical gems collected byprevious Slot managers forthe benefit of the techs Ithas “Slot Bible” scrawledover it and the contentswere mainly Randy’s mate-rial. It sure helped usnewbies in our careers.There was also a foldernamed “RANDY FROMM’SBIG BLUE BOOK of ReallyGreat Technical Informa-tion” on board one of theships with info scannedfrom the magazines. Thankyou Randy.

So much for reminiscencesof my early days as aTrainee Slot Technician.Now on to my first article ina series that I intend towrite.

Bally ALPHA ELITE S9E-Bally ALPHA ELITE S9E-Bally ALPHA ELITE S9E-Bally ALPHA ELITE S9E-Bally ALPHA ELITE S9E-QUICK HIT STARLIGHTQUICK HIT STARLIGHTQUICK HIT STARLIGHTQUICK HIT STARLIGHTQUICK HIT STARLIGHTFIRE Upright ReelFIRE Upright ReelFIRE Upright ReelFIRE Upright ReelFIRE Upright Reel

We will start with a recentfault I had on one BallyALPHA ELITE S9E-QUICKHIT STARLIGHT FIRE Up-right Reel game. The gamewas found with the first reelspinning non-stop. There

was no player on the ma-chine. The error messageon the LCD read “Mechani-cal Reels not configured.” Itried to open and close thedoor (the old faithful) and areboot but still no luck so Ipowered down and tookReel 1 to the workshop. Onfurther scrutiny, it becameapparent that the ReelMotor Driver board wasfaulty. We did not carry anyspare board of this type onboard so I had it ordered viaour purchasing depart-ment. The new board thatarrived did not look thesame in the appearance ofthe components on it, com-pared to the old faultyboard. They did not evenhave the same part num-bers! The original boardwas AS-03356-0527REVAwhile the new one was PCA108781-0-0 REV B.

The new board had andextra resistor network RP2while the old one had SMDresistors in the same area.Most of the parts on the oldone were SMD deviceswhile this one looked moreold fashioned. Unless Ballyhad a lot of these old styleboard lying around andwere trying to get rid of it,well only a Bally Tech sup-port can tell us which iswhich. I was a bit reluctant

Bally Reel Board ErrorBy Sunil Davidson


to try this new board withdifferent components andpart number. The onlythings that matched werethe two connectors J1 andJ2 and ICs U1 and U2. Itook a leap of faith andinstalled the new board andthe Reel assembly in themachine. Powered up andthe fault was gone.

Lesson learned: like every-thing else in life, some-times you just have to trustyour intuition and take thatstep. What’ve you got tolose, a burned board ;) ?Until next time.

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