McCombs
New member
Do any of you have a love/hate relationship with this hobby?
I am a new member that only owns two machines. The first one is a Taito Double Dragon machine that I saved from the dump and restored it's badly water damaged cabinet. After hours of busting my ass I finally got it working. Today I fired it up and the video worked but the sound from the pcb is gone. I ended up trying to check voltages at the sound amp and ended up shorting out the -5vdc on the board. Screw it....I will just get a new board. The next great project was a empty Q-Bert machine that I worked my a** off on to turn it into a 60-1. It worked fine untill I went to push it up against the wall where it would sit..turned it on and it played blind. The chassis went out. I only have two machines and that is all I want. I can't imagine how you guy's with real arcades keep them running...... I'm done.
I am a new member that only owns two machines. The first one is a Taito Double Dragon machine that I saved from the dump and restored it's badly water damaged cabinet. After hours of busting my ass I finally got it working. Today I fired it up and the video worked but the sound from the pcb is gone. I ended up trying to check voltages at the sound amp and ended up shorting out the -5vdc on the board. Screw it....I will just get a new board. The next great project was a empty Q-Bert machine that I worked my a** off on to turn it into a 60-1. It worked fine untill I went to push it up against the wall where it would sit..turned it on and it played blind. The chassis went out. I only have two machines and that is all I want. I can't imagine how you guy's with real arcades keep them running...... I'm done.



