Cool, just send me your credit card info first so you can pick up my location's electric bill. Maybe set aside some money for when a regulator inevitably blows and kills an irreplaceable PCB through overvoltage where a switcher would typically go into shutdown.
Game: Rampage
Issue: Sticks are stuck or sluggish
Repair: Pulling up on the stick made it move freely so I looked up the markings on the base plate and stumbled across the Monroe stick thread. The sticks hadn't been cleaned or lubed in 40 years, I had to double check to confirm there were no...
I'm trying to help out with a Big Blue project that's been stuck in the "basket case" stage for a while now. Was converted to a MAME multicab the previous owner just kind of packed the CP holes he wasn't using with bondo. We're trying to update it with a RaspberryJAMMA on the road to finding a...
I'm responsible for a location DDR Xtreme Pro with a pretty bad LCD conversion. It's got a 20" hacked into the 25" mounting point, it takes almost a second to resync when the game switches between 240p and 480i, and it looks awful in 480i mode. We're looking to trade up, but would rather save...
Gotta be Ice Cold Beer. It's the quintessential "drop a spare quarter when you're two or three beers into the night" game. Also about half of the Atari System 1 and 2 games.
If you have a nice DVD player you could probably use one of the DVD games and make a playlist of the videos without the...
Had a D9200 with that EEPROM glitch where the picture seems to disappear. Sub brightness had reset to 33. Quick trip into factory OSD fixed that, but I discovered something strange when I was calibrating the rest of the display. If I set horizontal position to be greater than 92, the picture...
And then I come in this morning, look the board over one more time and notice tiny solder bridges on a couple of the ROM sockets. It's working fine now. Go me, I guess.
All right, it's been a month and we still haven't been able to get this board functional. Time to get the think tank on this.
What's been done to it so far:
Washed PCB and reseated sockets. This revealed/washed out/summoned weird schmutz on a bunch of the sockets.
Replaced sockets used by...
I was wondering what was going on with this. Why Happ would sit on their hands instead of exploiting the many takesy-backsies periods over the last year to get as many container-loads of product out as possible is beyond me. Maybe they just want to normalize the higher price and pin it on...
I work at an arcade and our supply of screw-terminal power supplies is running out. Happ refuses to stock more and genuine Peter Chou/Happ models are seriously thin on the ground on fleabay. Help me be the hero of the day by sending me your unused or busted supplies.
I'm looking for...
Vegas games use an "off the shelf" (sometimes a variant with the passthrough connector left off to save money) Voodoo2. If you have a computer that can run DOS/Win95 and has PCI slots, you can install the Glide SDK and run MOJO.EXE to see if it will boot up or run some demos. If it doesn't work...
The received wisdom regarding width coils is that they're always seized from either heat stress or some idiot operator sticking a metal tool in there. If you try to torque the coil when it's seized you break the coil and it's RIP your chassis.
The search term you need to use is "width coil...
Don't worry, you'll want to replace the balls after a couple thousand plays. It's not as regularly needed on an old EM as for moderns that smack the ball around harder, but few things destroy playfields like dirty, scratched or "facteted" pinballs.