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Korean and Taiwanese candy cabs (Andamiro, WeChe)

Japan had no monopoly on the candy cab. Korea and Taiwan built them too, for their home markets and for export, with the same instincts — compact cabinet, rotatable monitor, JAMMA — and real differences: dual 110/220 V, ticket dispensing, and manuals that do not read like the Japanese ones.

WeChe's OK Baby (Taiwan), in profile.
WeChe's OK Baby (Taiwan), in profile. Source: Hard*Candy — ⚠️ the site publishes no licence statement.

Overview

Cabinet Maker Country Screen Manufacturer figures
Joy-Ro 21 Andamiro Korea — ⚠️ undocumented, see below
Joy-Ro 29 Andamiro Korea — ⚠️ undocumented
OK Baby (OK-S) WeChe (Wee-Chin) Taiwan 28″ / 29″ 730 × 960 × 1460 mm, 100 kg
OK Baby (OK-L) WeChe Taiwan 28″ / 29″ 730 × 960 × 1675 mm, 110 kg

WeChe OK Baby — two models, and the second is the first on a base

The WeChe manual archived here is titled OK Baby Cabinet + Upright Base and publishes two spec panels side by side:

OK-S OK-L
Power 110 V . 220 V 110 V . 220 V
Monitor 28″ . 29″ 28″ . 29″
Weight 100 kg 110 kg
Coin ticket, coin ticket, coin

And two dimension drawings, OK-S Size and OK-L Size:

OK-S OK-L
Width 730 mm 730 mm
Depth 960 mm (base 570) 960 mm (base 570)
Cabinet height 1460 mm 1675 mm
Overall height 1740 mm 1955 mm
Panel height 700 mm 915 mm

The manual's title explains the whole difference

+ Upright Base: the OK-L is the OK-S on a base. 215 mm more in cabinet height and in panel height alike, 10 kg more, same width, same depth, same tube. It is not a second cabinet, it is a height option.

Same mechanism as the SNK Neo 19's upright stand (+150 mm, +6.5 kg) — a height added from below, not from a panel on top as on Japanese candy cabs.

What Hard*Candy says, and why it is not what the manual says

The community entry gives "730 x 960 x 1460 mm (1740 mm with marquee), 100 kg (110 kg with Base)" — it mixes the two models: the figures are the OK-S's, the "110 kg with Base" is the OK-L's weight, and the OK-L's height (1675 / 1955) is missing altogether. The manual separates them cleanly.

Two things you will not find on a Japanese candy cab

  • 110 V and 220 V on the same line, for both models. A Japanese candy of the same era is 100 V and nothing else → see Cabinet power.
  • ticket, coin under Coin: the cabinet is built for a ticket dispenser, so for redemption. No Japanese candy cab archived here offers that.

Andamiro Joy-Ro 21 and 29 — two parts catalogues, no figures

Three Joy-Ro cabinets in a row on site — the cabinet in use.
Three Joy-Ro cabinets in a row on site — the cabinet in use. Source: Hard*Candy — ⚠️ the site publishes no licence statement.
An Andamiro Joy-Ro 29 (Korea).
An Andamiro Joy-Ro 29 (Korea). Source: Hard*Candy — ⚠️ the site publishes no licence statement.

Both Andamiro manuals are archived — Joy-Ro 21 (21 pp.) and Joy-Ro 29 (24 pp.) — but it must be clear what they are: spare-parts catalogues, not datasheets.

⚠️ No figure for these cabinets rests on a document

All 21 and 24 pages were swept one by one. They contain complete parts lists, item by item, in Andamiro's format (C03009-008A, M02009-038A, A02001-008A…) — but no specifications block, no overall dimensions, no weight.

The dimensions in circulation (24.25 × 34.46 × 54.33 in for the 21, 28.35 × 35.43 × 65.75 in for the 29) come from a community entry, and they are in inches for a Korean cabinet — which smells of conversion. They are not published here.

What the catalogues do give

They are not empty documents. The parts lists name things you actually replace:

Item Andamiro reference
Power supply SMPS SPS-1503BE (A02001-008A)
Mains filter 250 V 6 A (A06000-003A)
Mains cord 250 V - 10 A (A01000-003A)
Fuse 5 A (A15004-001A)
Switch rocker T-120 (A04004-001A)
Mains inlet AC-011 (A28000-001A)
Lock KEY ASS'Y 0720 (AM01-ZZZS02A)

And an installation instruction, page 7 of both manuals: "Acceptable maximum current of this machine is 10 A with outlet", with an explicit ban on daisy-chaining beyond 10 A on the same outlet.

⚡ Connectors & power

Aspect Value
Connector JAMMA on all four → JAMMA wiring
Voltage — OK Baby 110 V or 220 V (WeChe manual)
Voltage — Joy-Ro ⚠️ undocumented; the cord is rated 250 V - 10 A and the fuse 5 A
Max current — Joy-Ro 10 A at the outlet, no chaining beyond (manuals, p. 7)

A 110/220 V cabinet is not a 100 V cabinet

The OK Baby states 110 V and 220 V. That does not mean it adapts on its own: the manual documents no automatic switch. Before plugging in, read the machine's label and check which voltage it is wired for — the same caution as on the Astro City II, which exists in Japanese 100 V and in export 220-240 V.

Procedure — a cabinet that will not start ✅

This cabinet exists in both low and high voltage

This page documents both a low-voltage version (Japanese or North American market) and a 220-240 V one. Nothing here tells you which one you have.

Read the machine's label before plugging anything in. A step-down transformer on a cabinet already wired for 240 V is every bit as destructive as 230 V into a cabinet built for 100 V. → Cabinet power

What this adds

Ordered for a cabinet, not for a board: mains, low-voltage supply, loom, monitor, then the game. The overwhelming majority of "dead cabinets" are dead for a reason that has nothing to do with the PCB — which is why the board comes last here.

1. Mains, and what sits between it and the cabinet. The switch, the fuse or breaker, the isolation transformer if there is one. A cabinet that shows no sign of life at all is almost never electronic.

2. The low-voltage supply — measured under load. Aim for +5 V where power reaches the board — the JAMMA edge, or the JVS power connector, depending on the cabinet — with the game running, not on an idle bench. If the supply has an adjustment (most candy and JVS bricks do; the ATX brick in a PC cabinet does not), do it then and not before: set off-load, it leaves a board that boots and then glitches. With no adjustment the measurement still earns its keep — it tells you whether the supply holds. Check +12 V too, and −5 V if the board uses it: many do not, and an ATX brick does not provide it. → Cabinet power

3. The loom and the connector. Reseat, and check the grounds — a cabinet with a poor ground gives rolling picture, phantom inputs and noise, all at once, and none of it looks like a wiring fault. → Wiring

4. The monitor. This page does not give a single monitor spec — it covers several cabinets. Check which one you have before concluding anything.

5. Scan rate — the mismatch that breaks nothing. If the board's rate is not one the monitor accepts, you get no picture and nothing is faulty. Check what this cabinet takes against what the board puts out before opening anything. → Modernising a cabinet

6. The control panel. Microswitches and the loom, in that order. A single dead direction is a switch; a whole player dead is the loom or its ground. → Control panels

7. Coin mech and sound. Last, because they hide nothing: a mech that no longer registers is usually dirty or misadjusted, and silence with a good picture points at the amplifier and its supply rails.

See also

Sources & attribution

  • WeChe (Wee-Chin) — OK Baby Cabinet + Upright Base, 36 pp., archived here — folio 2: two panels, OK-S and OK-L (110 V . 220 V, 28″/29″, 100 and 110 kg, ticket, coin) and two dimension drawings (OK-S 730 × 960 × 1460, overall 1740, panel 700; OK-L 730 × 960 × 1675, overall 1955, panel 915). ⚠️ This PDF has no text layer: everything quoted from it was read off the rendered page. Via Hard*Candy
  • Andamiro — Joy-Ro 21, 21 pp., archived here — ⚠️ parts catalogue only, no specifications block (21 pages checked one by one). Parts lists and the "10 A max" installation note on p. 7 — https://www.hard--candy.com/wiki/candy/Joy-Ro_21
  • Andamiro — Joy-Ro 29, 24 pp., archived here — ⚠️ same, no figures (24 pages checked) — https://www.hard--candy.com/wiki/candy/Joy-Ro_29
  • Joy-Ro 21 and 29 dimensions — the inch values in circulation come from a community entry, with no document, and are not repeated here
  • Hard*Candy — OK Baby, Joy-Ro 21, Joy-Ro 29 entries for the maker, country and era — ⚠️ their OK Baby figures mix the S and L models — https://www.hard--candy.com/wiki/candy-cabinets

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