Phetishboy
Well-known member
Section Z. Loved it on NES, Arcade version seems even Cooler
Got a chance to try this one last week thanks to an adapter loan from Oryk Z. I really like the left/right about face feature the game offers. Graphics are great, enemies are cool. Don't ask me why, but being a dude in a flying space suit makes this game > Gradius for me. Too bad after I played 3 games, something went wrong with the PCB. I saw a jail bars appear, then disappear, then flicker and stay, so I hit the machine Fonzi-style, which cleared it up. Then it came back a few seconds later. I turned off the machine and reseated the adapter, turned it back on, and now nothing. Tried about 5 more times, still nothing. Just a plain greenish monitor. Dammit! I thought I finally found a use for my generic Jamma cab. Just my luck. Anyone else that has the game tell me if it is worth fixing? Are the ribbon cables a known failure point on these?
Got a chance to try this one last week thanks to an adapter loan from Oryk Z. I really like the left/right about face feature the game offers. Graphics are great, enemies are cool. Don't ask me why, but being a dude in a flying space suit makes this game > Gradius for me. Too bad after I played 3 games, something went wrong with the PCB. I saw a jail bars appear, then disappear, then flicker and stay, so I hit the machine Fonzi-style, which cleared it up. Then it came back a few seconds later. I turned off the machine and reseated the adapter, turned it back on, and now nothing. Tried about 5 more times, still nothing. Just a plain greenish monitor. Dammit! I thought I finally found a use for my generic Jamma cab. Just my luck. Anyone else that has the game tell me if it is worth fixing? Are the ribbon cables a known failure point on these?
