Phetishboy
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So, since I have been collecting, there have always been minor setbacks. Usually though, little triumphs also occur and they usually balance each other out. Unfortunately, I finally hit a week where NOTHING is going right. Seriously, have you had this week yet?
-Left 5 of my games on all day long while at work yesterday. Got home, 12 hours later, and realized it when I went to switch the laundry. Ran to turn them off, but the rebuilt 6100 in my Tempest now has severe vertical collapse. AGAIN. Rebuilt monitor, replacement board, no idea where to start. Other 4 games (all raster) perfectly fine.
-My Multi-Williams build is still stalled because I can't get the control wiring to do what it is supposed to. I only get 10 minutes to look at it every 3 days and I am still stuck. That was after my MW overlay got nearly ruined by faulty bolt heads underneath it.
-I had all my Gorf wiring and RGB boards looked at because I lost video signal right after I restored the machine. All new connectors were crimped on, RGB board checked out, IO board checked out. Installed everything, still no video, and the game still plays blind.
-Lost sound in my Q-bert, again, but this time restarting it doesn't get it back like it used to. No sound, not even stuttering or I'm Turned on. Fuck. Qbert is no fun to play in silence.
-My Pole Position died. My boy's favorite game, dead. Haven't had time to do much to it, but at least one fuse in the transformer block is melted. At least it's not a board issue this time. ARII's will have to be rebuilt just to be sure.
-My idea of a game room addition has been voted down by the resident building official, my wife. Due to a new baby on the way, I may lose the Outer Limits in a little over a year, forcing 8 games out into the cold.
-trying to rip DVD's this week of cartoons I haven't seen in 31 years. Both discs I tried have had bad sectors so far and won't play the last episode of 6. Annoying.
-got a replacement hard drive for my megatouch that hasn't worked right for over a year. The replacement drive worked great for 2 days, then started locking up and resetting, just like my old one. Kids got sad. 2nd replacement arrived yesterday, no time to install it.
-Sea Wolf started showing graphic garbage on the right side of the screen. Thankfully it goes away after the game warms up a bit, but I'm sure it will get worse as time goes on.
-Tried to get a new DK Cocktail instruction card printed, but found out that the vector file on Localarcade was never completed and has unfinished portions everywhere. No time to clean it up, so that ends that idea.
-Saw one of my last wanted games pop up on the other side of the country in what may or may not be a false ad. Frustrating.
-Got my menu board and began setting it up with high scores in the plastic letters and numbers provided. My HSS initials are SEX, and I realized that only one X came with the letter pack. SEX holds 80% of the HSs down here, so I'll have to source a shit ton of Xs.
Overall, been a bad week.
-Left 5 of my games on all day long while at work yesterday. Got home, 12 hours later, and realized it when I went to switch the laundry. Ran to turn them off, but the rebuilt 6100 in my Tempest now has severe vertical collapse. AGAIN. Rebuilt monitor, replacement board, no idea where to start. Other 4 games (all raster) perfectly fine.
-My Multi-Williams build is still stalled because I can't get the control wiring to do what it is supposed to. I only get 10 minutes to look at it every 3 days and I am still stuck. That was after my MW overlay got nearly ruined by faulty bolt heads underneath it.
-I had all my Gorf wiring and RGB boards looked at because I lost video signal right after I restored the machine. All new connectors were crimped on, RGB board checked out, IO board checked out. Installed everything, still no video, and the game still plays blind.
-Lost sound in my Q-bert, again, but this time restarting it doesn't get it back like it used to. No sound, not even stuttering or I'm Turned on. Fuck. Qbert is no fun to play in silence.
-My Pole Position died. My boy's favorite game, dead. Haven't had time to do much to it, but at least one fuse in the transformer block is melted. At least it's not a board issue this time. ARII's will have to be rebuilt just to be sure.
-My idea of a game room addition has been voted down by the resident building official, my wife. Due to a new baby on the way, I may lose the Outer Limits in a little over a year, forcing 8 games out into the cold.
-trying to rip DVD's this week of cartoons I haven't seen in 31 years. Both discs I tried have had bad sectors so far and won't play the last episode of 6. Annoying.
-got a replacement hard drive for my megatouch that hasn't worked right for over a year. The replacement drive worked great for 2 days, then started locking up and resetting, just like my old one. Kids got sad. 2nd replacement arrived yesterday, no time to install it.
-Sea Wolf started showing graphic garbage on the right side of the screen. Thankfully it goes away after the game warms up a bit, but I'm sure it will get worse as time goes on.
-Tried to get a new DK Cocktail instruction card printed, but found out that the vector file on Localarcade was never completed and has unfinished portions everywhere. No time to clean it up, so that ends that idea.
-Saw one of my last wanted games pop up on the other side of the country in what may or may not be a false ad. Frustrating.
-Got my menu board and began setting it up with high scores in the plastic letters and numbers provided. My HSS initials are SEX, and I realized that only one X came with the letter pack. SEX holds 80% of the HSs down here, so I'll have to source a shit ton of Xs.
Overall, been a bad week.
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