Burgertime Free Play and High Score Save Kit

BurgerTime Free Play and High Score Save Kit for Data East Arcade PCB

Upgrade your original Data East BurgerTime arcade PCB with Free Play, Top 5 high score saving, attract sound enhancements, and optional Wi-Fi leaderboard support while preserving authentic gameplay and original arcade hardware.

Designed specifically for original Data East hardware, this plug-and-play ribbon cable daughter card upgrade improves long-term reliability without changing gameplay, timing, sound, controls, or the classic arcade experience collectors expect.

Upgrade Your BurgerTime Arcade Experience

Restore and enhance your original Data East BurgerTime arcade machine with a professionally designed Free Play and High Score Save Kit built specifically for authentic Data East arcade hardware.

Original boards often lose high scores, rely on aging components, or suffer from unstable resets. This upgrade modernizes your PCB while preserving the original gameplay, sound effects, timing, controls, and arcade feel that made BurgerTime one of the most recognizable arcade classics of the early 1980s.

Unlike multigame systems or reproduction boards, this kit keeps your original arcade PCB intact while improving long-term reliability for collectors, operators, and restoration projects.

Included Features

• Easy Installation: No soldering, board modifications, or special wiring required
• Ribbon Cable Installation: Installs between ribbon cables with no CPU removal required
• Permanent Score Saving: Reliable serial EEPROM storage with no batteries required
• High Score Save: Saves the Top 5 scores
• Attract Sounds: Restores authentic gameplay sound effects
• Free Play and Coin-Up: Supports both gameplay styles
• Attract Mode Protection: Helps minimize screen burn by avoiding static screens
• Menu-Driven DIP Settings: Change options directly on-screen
• ROM Saver: Original ROMs may be removed because the program runs directly from the kit
• Cabinet Compatibility: Works in Upright and Cocktail cabinets
• Backup and Restore: Save and restore high scores anytime
• Reset Button: Restart a game without powering the cabinet off
• Separate Score Tables: Different tables for 2, 3, 4, or 5 lives
• Fast Boot: No waiting for lengthy initialization
• Stealth Mode: Boots directly into gameplay

Why Upgrade Your Original BurgerTime PCB?

A restored BurgerTime cabinet should still feel like the original Data East arcade machine. This kit keeps the original PCB in place while adding Free Play, high score saving, menu-driven settings, ROM Saver support, and optional online leaderboard features.

The ribbon cable daughter card installation avoids CPU removal, making it a practical upgrade for collectors and operators who want reliable score retention without converting the cabinet to emulation or replacement hardware.

Installation Information

Optional Wi-Fi Features and Online Leaderboards

Upgrade to a Wi-Fi Enabled Kit to upload scores online and compete against players around the world, locally within your arcade, or across your own connected cabinet network.

Standard kits save scores locally to the PCB, while Wi-Fi kits add automatic online score syncing through the HighScoreSaves global leaderboard platform.

BurgerTime Free Play and High Score Save Kit FAQ

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