Some time ago I bought a Galaga and a Ms. Pac Man set from the local craigslist.
Since then. I swear, Galaga is the work of the devil. My guess is the boards are just built *really* bad?
Original boardset had been worked on before. Started off with a normal RAM error (video PCB or some such). Finally it quick working that far.
Bought a new boardset off of ebay. Sure it was for a cocktail, switched the monitor around, only the boot screen is upside down, I'll figure it out later. Lasted about 5 days. Power cycled the machine a few times (gave it a minute or two) while working on an automation system, and now it's throwing a 2H error.
A: Looking around I see a high demand for the boards, I assume this is because they are garbage.
B: Do any of those chinese made "all in one" boards do Galaga, and allow you to set it to only run Galaga? I'm thinking a Galaga emulator board might be needed, since the originals seems to fail?
Is it really just me? Or do these board sets have low quality that results in lots of failures?
For some time I thought about trying to put all of the chips into a cad program and chunk out a new PCB that holds the original chips. A single board with better quality sockets and what not. Think this would solve it?
My unit has an aftermarket switchmode power supply, as well.
Since then. I swear, Galaga is the work of the devil. My guess is the boards are just built *really* bad?
Original boardset had been worked on before. Started off with a normal RAM error (video PCB or some such). Finally it quick working that far.
Bought a new boardset off of ebay. Sure it was for a cocktail, switched the monitor around, only the boot screen is upside down, I'll figure it out later. Lasted about 5 days. Power cycled the machine a few times (gave it a minute or two) while working on an automation system, and now it's throwing a 2H error.
A: Looking around I see a high demand for the boards, I assume this is because they are garbage.
B: Do any of those chinese made "all in one" boards do Galaga, and allow you to set it to only run Galaga? I'm thinking a Galaga emulator board might be needed, since the originals seems to fail?
Is it really just me? Or do these board sets have low quality that results in lots of failures?
For some time I thought about trying to put all of the chips into a cad program and chunk out a new PCB that holds the original chips. A single board with better quality sockets and what not. Think this would solve it?
My unit has an aftermarket switchmode power supply, as well.


