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Table of Contents 1. Safety Notices.................................................................................................................................................3 2. FCC Compliance ............................................................................................................................................3 3. Nicktoons Racing, Video Game .....................................................................................................................3 3.1. 3.2. 4.
1. Safety Notices The following safety instructions apply to all game operators. We recommend that you read this page before setting-up Nicktoons Racing. Use the following safety guidelines to help protect the system from potential damage and to ensure your personal safety. • Use with only 115 volts/60Hz • To help prevent electric shock, plug the system power cables into properly grounded power sources. These cables are equipped with 3-prong plugs to help ensure proper grounding.
3.2. Game Background, The Races There are 12 different races 1st Cup Races 1) Reptar Raceway (The RugRats) 2) Dam Prix (The Angry Beavers) 3) Rancid Raceway (CatDog) 4) Bikini Bottom Blowout (SpongeBob, SquarePants) 2nd Cup Races 5) Beaver Fever (The Angry Beavers) 6) Race Madness 7) Nearburg Rally (CatDog) 8) Safari Speedway (The Wild Thornberrys) 3rd Cup Races 9) Monster Mania (Real Monsters) 10) Pickles Parkway (The RugRats) 11) Gritty City Circuit (Hey Arnold) 12) Bongo Bangup (The Wild Thornberrys) 4.
Table 1, Game Connector Computers Female Connector DB15 Pin Description (Pots are 100K ohms) +5V DC Joystick A Button 1 Joystick A X Axis Ground Main 5VDC Horn Switch Steering Wheel Pot To button Ground To Horn 6 Orn 7 Blu Joystick A Y Axis Joystick A Button 2 Accelerator Pot Speed Burst Sw 8 Purple 9 Tan (Do not use) 5V DC NA (Do not use) Joystick B Button 1 Joystick B X Axis PowerUp Sw Brake Pot 1 Red 2 Brn 3 Pink 4 Blk 5 Blk Plugs Male Connector 10 Vio 11 Wht/Blk Control Other Wire 12
Reverse(and Forward) Switch & Mechanism, Handle is in Forward position. Switch is open for Forward, closed for Reverse 100K resistor is wired across terminals 4.2. Coin Door & Dollar Acceptor Both the coin switches and the Mars Electronics International AE2451U3 Dollar Bill acceptor (http://www.meiglobal.com/) are hooked up in parallel. The switch contacts to use for the coin switch are the common (COM) and the Normally open (N.O.) terminals.
4.3. DB9 Coin Counter/Switch on COM1 Serial port The Coin counter and coin switch are hooked up to COM1 Serial port via the Mother Board D815EFV / D815EPFV. It also gets +12VDC from the computers power cable for disk drives (see next table).
CHICAGO GAMING COMPANY DATE: QTY: DWN BY: 1 PER CAD REF: PROJECT: REVISION 0.01 SCALE: None C SIZE DWG If another motherboard is used with a DB9 or a DB25 connector; here are the pin-outs.
Table 7, PC Power Supply Cable Male Pins Pin 1, Red 2, Blk 3, Blk 4, Yel Description 5VDC Ground Ground 12VDC 4.4. USB Dongle Always plug in the Nicktoons Racing USB dongle. This allows the game to start and play games. 5. Game Adjustments & Calibrations To start the Game Adjustments & Calibrations menu, press F1 on the keyboard during the Attract Mode. To access the F1 key open the top coin-door; the keyboard is mounted on the left wall of the cabinet.
Table 8, Adjustments & Calibration Dialog Box 5.1. 1ST Coinage for Game Play To start a game. This is the amount of X coins needed to add Y play time (in seconds). There is an additional message (up to 35 characters) that can be displayed above the “Insert X coins to start” message. See section 5.5 “Attract Message” for message limitations. Below is an example of the message “1ST COINAGE MESSAGE" 5.2. 2ND Coinage for Game Play If the player wishes to continue the game for the first time.
temporarily stops the game to ask from more coins. Below is an example of the message “2ND COINAGE MESSAGE” if the amount of coins is non-zero. If the amount of coins in this coinage setting is 0, the player will be awarded free Bonus Time. This coinage is the only one that lets you set “0 coins” for a “Bonus Time” amount of free time. This “Bonus time” is always awarded. And is usually displayed dynamically while the player is still racing.
5.5. Attract Messages This is 2 lines of text, up to 35 characters for each line, to be displayed during the attract mode. Messages are limited to certain characters, listed in the table below. If you try to use a character that is not supported, it will be converted into a space (except for letters which will be converted to upper case). Table 9, Supported Text Characters Character 0 to 9 A to Z (Space) & ‘ .
Table 10, Difficulty Percentage Description Percent 25% Minimum 80% 90% 100% 110% 150% Maximum Description Very Easy Easy Medium Hard Very Hard Extremely Hard If the “Easier Re-Race” check box is checked, each additional re-race of the same track is made 10% easier (down to the Minimum 25%) 5.7. Free Play Check this Box for all games to be free. 5.8. Allow Champion Tables Check this box to allow the game to maintain 3 tables (the top 5 fastest players in each table) of the champion players per cup. 5.
5.17. Windows button Press this button to Cancel any changes (adjustments, reset champion table, and calibration data) and exit the game to go to Windows DOS. 5.18. The Diagnostics Dialog Box This is started by the Diagnostic button from the Adjustment Dialog Box. Major problems, like connectors disconnected, are prompted to be connected when the game starts. Figure 1, Diagnostic Dialog Box The Boxes for the Switches turn green when the switch is closed, and go back to gray when the switch is opened.
5.18.2. Calibration buttons (Steering, Accelerator, Brakes, Fwd/Rev) Press any of these buttons to re-calibrate the Steering Wheel, Accelerator Pedal, Brake Pedal, Forward/Reverse shifter. Instructions are provided to release and depress the pedals or in the case of the steering wheel to center the wheel, turn it to the extreme right & left. Remember that these new calibrations are only saved if you press the “OK” button on the main adjustments Dialog box. 5.18.3.
6. Trouble Shooting In case something happens to the software on the Hard Drive or other problems, a boot CD has been included to reload all software. See chapter 8 “Reloading Software & BIOS settings” if your problem is not easily resolved. In most cases the plugs just have to be re-connected. Table 11, Trouble Shooting Table Description of Problem Turn on game and the message “USB Dongle Problem: Please plug in the USB Dongle for Nicktoons Racing…” appears in a dialog box with the buttons OK & Cancel.
7. Watch Dog and the I/O board The I/O board contains solenoid drivers, audio amplifier, and a watch dog circuit (to reset the PC if the PC gets locked). The CPU reset signal (Reset#) is accessed via a connector on the mother board. Table 12, ASRock M810LMR Mother board, System panel connector The 2 pin watch dog connector is plugged into this connector on the top pins reset# and GND, (reset# is connected to the purple wire, GND is the empty pin).
Pressing Switch S2 (when watch dog is enabled) will start a PC reset (Green LED CR1 will fast blink) . Pressing Switch S3 will set the power on “watch dog reset counter” to 0 blinks.
“system date” = {set the current date} “system time” = {set the current time} 8.1.1.1. Floppy Driver Floppy Drive A = Not installed Floppy Drive B = Not installed Floppy Drive Swap = Disabled Floppy Driver Seek = Disabled 8.1.1.2. IDE Devices Primary IDE Master = {your C: drives name, i.e. Maxtor 2F020L0} Type = Auto 32 Bit transfer = OFF Ultra DMA = Disable Primary IDE Slave = Not Installed Secondary IDE Master = {your CD drive, i.e.
8.1.3.1. Power Restore on AC/Power Loss = Power On Ring-in Power on = Disabled PCI Device Power On = Disabled RTC Alarm Power On = Disabled 8.1.3.2. Boot Quick Boot Mode = Enabled Boot Up Num-Lock = On Boot To OS/2 = NO Boot to Network = Disabled 8.1.3.3. Boot Device Priority (The order should be CD drive, then Hard drive. The position is not important. Here is an example) 1st = CD/DVD-0: 2nd = IDE-0:{your C: drives name, i.e. Maxtor 2F020L0} 3rd = Disabled 4th = Disabled Try other Boot Devices = Yes 8.
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