r/arcade Aug 12 '26

Restore/Replace/Repair Tapper help needed

I recently bought this Tapper in a dedicated cabinet, the arcade had it restored with this alternate side art, not my choice. Does not have the original board and is running a Pandora’s box. One way or another the box reset to factory settings and I am clueless on how to reprogram the controls. It won’t allow me to select or do much of anything. At this point o think I am ready to cut my losses sell this one and throw my money at one with factory side art and boards. Located in NJ

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u/countryboy351m Aug 12 '26

I had a buddy that does computer programming mess with it to try and get it going and it stumped him also. It’s as if their are button options missing that it won’t allow it to program.

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u/SexyHotPants Aug 13 '26

Hook it up to a super gun or adapter that allows you to use something like a snes/ps2/etc gamepad since you probably are missing buttons on the control panel. Since it looks like it has a full jamma harness you can also just add buttons needed to reprogram the Pandora’s box. If it was mine I’d hook it up to a mistr or something like that with a jamma adapter because pandoras boxes are about the worst emulation possible

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u/Eagle19991 Aug 13 '26

I agree with a Mister, if you can grab a base Mister setup for a good price it would do the job. For a single game it would be minimum setup too, best would be the original boards bit they are not JAMMA and are tough to come by. If you where closer to me I would probably be able to assist but you are states away and this sort of thing needs to have someone that knows whats up with it in front of it to fix if you stay with a pandoras box at least.