tigerstyle
Active member
Never undestimate the harness! It's pretty much the weakest link!
I've had random issues with my dedicated MK1 cabinet over the past two years; resets; and in the year; the monitor had this strange 'rumbling' effect. Its hard to describe. Anyone last night this very cool guy who sold me most of my cab was over to deliver my latest purchase, a Terminator 2; and while the game was warming up; he decided to check out my MK as he knew it had problems.
He checked the power supply, the voltages were perfect and solid; check the monitor, check for shorts, and suddenly, he poked the jamma connector. The game instantly rebooted. Then when he would touch the cables -- instant reboots. he gave the connector a solid epic cleanup (turned out they were super dirty), and replaced the pins; and also cleaned up the edge connector on the board.
He replugged everything and boom! The game was perfect! No more reboots, the colors were somehow super clear, no more 'rumbles', no more reboot, I left the cab running by itself for a couple of hours, I finished the game twice, and no reboots, NOTHING.
All those years, all those problems were related to the stupid harness! ARG!
I've had random issues with my dedicated MK1 cabinet over the past two years; resets; and in the year; the monitor had this strange 'rumbling' effect. Its hard to describe. Anyone last night this very cool guy who sold me most of my cab was over to deliver my latest purchase, a Terminator 2; and while the game was warming up; he decided to check out my MK as he knew it had problems.
He checked the power supply, the voltages were perfect and solid; check the monitor, check for shorts, and suddenly, he poked the jamma connector. The game instantly rebooted. Then when he would touch the cables -- instant reboots. he gave the connector a solid epic cleanup (turned out they were super dirty), and replaced the pins; and also cleaned up the edge connector on the board.
He replugged everything and boom! The game was perfect! No more reboots, the colors were somehow super clear, no more 'rumbles', no more reboot, I left the cab running by itself for a couple of hours, I finished the game twice, and no reboots, NOTHING.
All those years, all those problems were related to the stupid harness! ARG!
