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Over 1,700 Arcade Manuals in PDF Format!

ascii.textfiles.com — This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by an anonymous army of dedicated people, and going back up to 30 years.

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  • SkippyDoorknob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13This should be integrated into one of the MAME front-ends
  • Alphateam, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2I thought these were user manuals, not the wiring diagrams.
    About as useful as a granola bar at Rosie O'Donnell's house.
    • JasonScott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2These are wiring diagrams, user manuals, and instruction sheets.
    • wo1verine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Do you remember going to the arcade and standing around reading the user manual before you played?

      I thought not.
  • MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I wonder if they tell you how to get free credits...
    • FourDoor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5A quarter, some tape, and string took care of that back in the days...
      • Radian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My brother & I used to "string" the hell out of a Robotron game near our house. Hours of good fun on a single quarter. Only difference is that we used Super Glue instead of tape.
  • badwithcomputer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2VERY cool...barely useful. But very very cool. Might wallpaper my room with some of these.
  • djtuttyram, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Wow! Awesome! This is friggin' amazing! Oh wait! No it's not!!
  • lascamp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Why can't people like this work at any real tech company? I can't get any manuals or schematics for my laptop that's only two years old. Or, for just about any piece of hardware I've bought in the past 10 years, for that matter. But stuff like this is on the net. Thanks anyway, guys.
  • myranttoyou, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Dugg down for inaccurate, the description should say "complete losers" instead of "dedicated people"
  • boozedrinker, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Thanks for the blogspam....direct link to the goods: http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/ARCADE
  • intexintel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Mirror pfd.
    http://www.fileegg.com/files/47E350F04A799FF9
  • Light11, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3sweet, i found the manual for my simpsons machine
  • mattfugitive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Heh! Total 100% geek.. gotta love it!
  • steal_apps01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3this is so cool, i'm a tech at a arcade place and i want to see if manuals exist for those machines
  • tirofiban, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3For someone who grew up in the late 70s and early 80s when the Coin-operated Arcade Games really were brand new for everyone, this "library" of manuals gives a good glimpse of what went into develop and maintain these amazing machines. I thought I've seen everything Atari, but now there's a whole piece of history that I've never seen before. Long live Missle Command on the Atari Coin-Operated Arcade machine, the 2600, the 5200, and the Atari 8-bit computers! Have you played Atari today?
  • StandardsDT, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2Digg me down. Digg opened up a different page when logged in. Wrong article.
  • expert01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Cool. Just about done retrofitting a Star Castle cabinet. Came with absolutely nothing (no controls, no screen, no coin stuff, not even a light or marquee or back!). Built a shelf for a 17" monitor, cut some poster board to go around the screen, where the marquee should be, and around the controls (then painted all that gloss black - except for the marquee, I cut out the Mame logo from some scrap, then put it on the board and painted over it - only problem was that the paint got under some edges, so I had to mist over the logo with paint... a big pain in the ass). Put a PC inside, all I've got to do is finish the drive bay mount and keyboard tray.

    This project has cost me about $2.50 so far (yes, two dollars and fifty cents). Had most of the random stuff I needed, and I got the cabinet for free off craigslist. If you want advice on how to build an arcade machine, all I can say is either don't do it or get all the right tools (circular saw, jig saw, drill with lots of bits, wood, etc.). Trust me, citing a 4"x4" hole with a 2 foot long hand saw is not easy (expecially in 1" plywood).
  • oduska, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Where's "House of the Dead" or "Area 51" ?

    Or am I just thinking of the wrong "arcade" games?
  • zerodaysoon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0kewl
  • AnnaBay21, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0the truth is out there...
  • ddobson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I used this resource a few years back when I bought an old Namco "Warp Warp" PCB board, it's a terrific site if you're at all interested in the hardware end of gaming. (I wasn't building a cabinet, just legalizing it for MAME use --I played it a lot as a kid, and Namco's museum collection releases have unjustly overlooked this Dig Dug forerunner. By which I mean, the player character dies and wilts in the same way as Dig Dug does -- this is a two-screen maze shooter.)
  • Zombi3Cake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No Crazy Taxi? No thanks.
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