Taito F3 Motherboard Repair Log

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Nice read Elgen,

Re: Opto's, Sega used these in almost everything they built. The reasoning behind it, gamers had figured out 'shocking' the coin entry and/or joystick inputs would sometimes rack up random credits, costing the operator money.. A common tool for this was the 'electric lighter starter', when stripped from its housing, it can send some current down the metal parts of the coin entry/coin door.. and voila, free games :)

(Everthing from Sega system 1/2/8/16/24 to system32 has this protection. Even bootlegs seem to have this duplicated most of the time.)
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Thnx and thnx for the cool info };-P
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Still works today on crappy claw machines with no opto-separated inputs.. :)

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