Better repair info?

amsterdamny

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Question, Dont you think having a place that you can look up symptoms and cures for every thing, like monitors, boards, etc Would be nice? A place where people can upload repair info, Like say go7 monitor blowing fuse, You can search through all g07 repair info collected from all over the web,and its all in one place, Not shure about legal issues with re posting other peoples repair info, but it seems that if it is on the web for anyone to see, it would be public information? I buy most of my games broken and im shure alot of others do to and it would be great if there was one giant public repair bible, Thoughts?
 
I have most of that, but there is alot more repair info out there than that, I know i have a crap load, If it was all at star tech, (Its not that much for there info,) why is there a repair forum on here? I find alot more searching the net, But i tend not to save the info or if i do i cant find it,(sloppy file keeper) Searching these threads is alot of time reading and you might not get anything, Also there are the same threads about the same problems all the time.
 
I was working on that idea not too long ago, but no one wants to participate. I have great Choplifter repair notes. I was going to do rom layouts and other useful info for each game. Responses I get is MAWS/Mame does it already. Fact is, look thru mame romsets, some are done by morons who don't know how to indicate the proper locations to each rom. Maws is very helpful, but it doesn't have common probs that are repaired with notes.

My suggestion, just make your own and hord it foryourself like others do :)

Kevin
 
In the new year, I will look at setting up a site, I agree, I keep collecting all sorts of little tid bits, it would be nice to have a site with everything in one place. I have a bunch of folders on my computer, one for each game I own and I stash every piece of anything I can get into each folder.
 
Question, Dont you think having a place that you can look up symptoms and cures for every thing, like monitors, boards, etc Would be nice?

For newbies yes, but information has value, and it's quite presumptuous for you to expect people who have put a time of time and effort generating knowledge and tech info to give it away to you for free because you're too lazy to learn these things yourself.

Every tech repair site I've ever seen has been completely useless. Saying 'in this once case, this chip being bad produced this result' is just a waste of time. None of these sites have actually described how games work nor given any insight into proper test/debug methodology.
 
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the goal. The forums are great for the "Oh crap I keep trying and can't figure this out", no site will ever take care of every first timer who decides to try and fix a dead game, but there are a lot of different places with hard to find schematics, etc, it would be nice to have a repository. Take for example the damn PS boards in the color Space Invaders cocktails, near impossible to find info, but once you do, it would be nice to share....

I was just thinking something simple, and a lot of it's on KLOV already, but some of the schematics and other items never seem to show up there...

Also, I just sent Low Gain a complete original GO7 monitor schematic and repair guide...funny there wasn't even a G07 in the machine I pulled it out of. I missed the secret santa :( so I did my own :)
 
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arm, ignore previos reply. I always do :) This is the kind of scrooge responses you get when you try to do something positive. If you do this, I will contribute.

Kevin
 
There is always value to information, but look at the thread on Chris...I mean the guy gives away information and sells great stuff...He hasn't had any trouble making some nice money with arcade items. With the internet, the value of knowledge is much less, there is still value in the ability to think though and no site will ever do that for you. Maybe it's because I started in MN, but a lot of the collectors I knew there, shared everything they could, and everyone ended up getting a lot out of it.
 
I was just poking around, when I really should be doing many other things, but procrastination is great!!! Basically what is needed is a site, like KLOV, but not as mainstream, not hard to find, just let's keep the bandwidth under control.... but instead of game descriptions just have sections:

Game:

KLOV Page:

Game Schematics:

Game Drawings:

Reference sites:

Reference threads:

Parts:

You could do it in a Wiki style format, and it could just grow... You could also include monitors etc...
Just some thoughts
 
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