I know im a geek... But isn't it fun???!!!

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So, i bought a cheap china UV eraser and Willem PCB3 programmer from eBay a long time ago. Recently I got a red tent (thanks to a KLOV'r...) and started burning my own rom chips. Well, tried i should say. No matter what i did, i would get errors when trying to burn the Mistu 2764 chips. Turned off polling from my LPT port, jacked the Twp as high as it could go, 12ms (although the datasheet says it should be programming at 45ms<Time<55ms). And would get bad writes, basically junk being written here and there throughout the image.


Solution = A Peter Chou Switching power supply to keep my Vcc at 5volts!!! I hooked up my crappy radio shack multimeter just to make sure i wasn't frying anything (it only took about 100ma from the switcher) and BAM! Wife came out, saw i was all happy and when i explained it to her.. she laughed and cracked a smiled and said.. Your such a dork, but i love you. hahah Can't help it I guess~!!! Do any of you get that look?


Burned three more games including one i have been waiting to play.... WRECKING CREW!!! Now, if i could only get the two RP2C04-0003 PPUs for Balloonfight... my game collection for the tent would be complete!!!! :) Now i just have to figure out when i am going to tear it apart to give a a fresh coat of paint!!!
 
Wife came out, saw i was all happy and when i explained it to her.. she laughed and cracked a smiled and said.. Your such a dork, but i love you. hahah Can't help it I guess~!!! Do any of you get that look?

I love that look! :D She doesn't understand why I get so excited about fixing boards. I try to explain to her that it's the challenge and victory, but she just shakes her head and gives that sympathetic look, with the emphasis on -'pathetic'. LOL She does put up with alot of arcade crap I must admit.
 
Ditto. We are geeks, but lovable geeks!!

Bill

I love that look! :D She doesn't understand why I get so excited about fixing boards. I try to explain to her that it's the challenge and victory, but she just shakes her head and gives that sympathetic look, with the emphasis on -'pathetic'. LOL She does put up with alot of arcade crap I must admit.
 
I'm jealous. I need to find the PPUs so I can get Vs. Wrecking Crew on my red tent. I'm trying to find full Vs. Golf chip sets. I'm okay for now with Vs. Balloon Fight. I'm just borrowing the PPUs from Vs. Excitebike and Vs. The Goonies.

My wife thinks I'm a geek too, but that's part of reason why she married me. :D
 
Hey Jess, If you need someone to program the roms just let me know. I saw you bought balloonfight. How much did that cost???
 
Hey Jess, If you need someone to program the roms just let me know. I saw you bought balloonfight. How much did that cost???

Steph at hobbyroms.com charges $60 shipped from Canada for all 12 eproms. I know it's pricey, but he does great work. Before that, another KLOVer tried to burn me a set for the cost of chips, but it didn't work as he most likely didn't use the correct chip types. I didn't know anyone else at the time who was willing to burn them for me, so I went with Steph. Thanks for the offer though. I'll keep you in mind once I find a couple of Vs. Golf chip sets. Which is ironic since I sold you the set that I had just a couple of weeks ago. Haha. I will get Vs. Wrecking Crew on my red tent. I must. :)
 
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Steph at hobbyroms.com charges $60 shipped from Canada for all 12 eproms. I know it's pricey, but he does great work. Before that, another KLOVer tried to burn me a set for the cost of chips, but it didn't work as he most likely didn't use the correct chip types. I didn't know anyone else at the time who was willing to burn them for me, so I went with Steph. Thanks for the offer though. I'll keep you in mind once I find a couple of Vs. Golf chip sets. Which is ironic since I sold you the set that I had just a couple of weeks ago. Haha. I will get Vs. Wrecking Crew on my red tent. I must. :)

You must indeed. Vs. Wrecking Crew is great 2p fun. Way better than the NES version cause you can actuallly hide from your opponent (and then smash them) cause they can't see your screen.
 
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