Today was one of those days. First I got a call from a guy that expressed interest in a multicade that has been cluttering my garage for a while. I needed to put a new control panel overlay on it and put the control panel back together. That actually worked first try without screwing up the overlay or breaking any buttons. I wasn't happy with the picture so i pulled the chassis and it was some Chinese knockoff (Hsinga, IIRC). Well, I actually had all of the capacitors that tested bad
I swapped them in, put the chassis back and it looks f*ing amazing. I attached some pics (so it really did happen).
It is either a 25" or 27" monitor and looks amazing now.
So when you get something fixed, you keep rolling despite the 90+ degree, 140% humidity heat. I decided to tackle the Donkey Kong cocktail. This was the POS I rescued from the falling down warehouse earlier this year (http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=217776 and http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=220030 and http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=224584). Well I finally burned the video ROM (just before my computer atached to my ROM burner crashed) a couple of weeks ago, so it was time to put it in. Of course, the old chip left 6 pins in the socket when I pulled it. It took an hour to tease them out of the socket. But I got them out and seated the new ROM.
The video worked fine. But the sound was gone. Aaargh. So I pulled the boards, carefully checked all the connections and put them back, plugged and prayed. I was rewarded with the power up sound and crisp clean video. I toggled a coin in (does anybody know how to put it into free play?) and played a game. Well I am no Steve W. but it looked good and sounded perfect.
It is time to quit while I am ahead. It is time for some brisket and beer.
ken
It is either a 25" or 27" monitor and looks amazing now.
So when you get something fixed, you keep rolling despite the 90+ degree, 140% humidity heat. I decided to tackle the Donkey Kong cocktail. This was the POS I rescued from the falling down warehouse earlier this year (http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=217776 and http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=220030 and http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=224584). Well I finally burned the video ROM (just before my computer atached to my ROM burner crashed) a couple of weeks ago, so it was time to put it in. Of course, the old chip left 6 pins in the socket when I pulled it. It took an hour to tease them out of the socket. But I got them out and seated the new ROM.
The video worked fine. But the sound was gone. Aaargh. So I pulled the boards, carefully checked all the connections and put them back, plugged and prayed. I was rewarded with the power up sound and crisp clean video. I toggled a coin in (does anybody know how to put it into free play?) and played a game. Well I am no Steve W. but it looked good and sounded perfect.
It is time to quit while I am ahead. It is time for some brisket and beer.
ken


