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Arcade & Retro Repairs & Mods, all new recipe, with no added MSG...

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  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What a pain,
    I needed two coils,1 gear and a transistor to get the heads in roadshow working as they should.
    had to order from 3 different websites.
    such a waste on postage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Lol wtf. Are they bicycle repair patches on that doll?? She's obviously been put through the mill. :pac:

    Don't talk about betsy that way!!

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Anyone flipped a yoke before, looks simple,
    Also got the following cable :


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭STG.Otaku


    eddhorse wrote: »
    Anyone flipped a yoke before, looks simple

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭TechnoFreek


    eddhorse wrote: »
    Anyone flipped a yoke before:




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,058 ✭✭✭Doge


    That post couldnt have been timed more appropriately!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    I was entirely expecting these answers haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


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  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Any body got any TL084 Quad op amp ICs?
    I need 2 but dont want to wait on the shipping.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,390 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    Its possible i might, ive a box of stuff at home, but i wont be home until tomorrow night to check..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    I've a few on order from Farnell due in tomorrow, should be able to spare a couple of them.


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What are the chances?!
    Sound let me know.
    Trying to track down a problem with that roadshow pinball.
    Its got two channels. Back box and cabinet.
    The cabinet channel is distorted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    What are the chances?!
    Sound let me know.
    Trying to track down a problem with that roadshow pinball.
    Its got two channels. Back box and cabinet.
    The cabinet channel is distorted.

    They're a very common audio op-amp and I'm working on some audio preamp stuff at the moment so chances were quite high :)

    I assume it DIP ones you need ?


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tis indeed!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Is roadshow a system11 audio board D-11581? If so I've a spare one here and also a broken one for parts

    edit: just checked, its not, was Gameshow I was thinking of :(


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yea a different one,
    Have you seen the pinsound boards?
    there 300e :0
    might get one for whitewater down the road when the reorchestration is done.let you add a shaker motor too!
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/white-water-reorchestration-for-pinsound-and-warren-davis


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Actually Cathal,
    have you seen this Whirlwind update stuff?
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/whirlwind-software-rewrite-the-journey


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Actually Cathal,
    have you seen this Whirlwind update stuff?
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/whirlwind-software-rewrite-the-journey

    I've seen that, expensive stuff, I think I'll stick with just doing the lightning upgrade and light up topper mods


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Those chips gone in post now Smellyfinger.


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  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If anyone ever needs any electronics don't be afraid to ask!
    I have tons of random bits.
    Usually order stuff from China and by the time they arrive I've forgotten what they were for....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Any chance you've a spare Donkey Kong cab ? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    would anyone happen to have a gal 16v8 and more importantly a way to program them?
    My GQ-4X wont do them :(


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Both Red and Ted got a new coil each for their eyelids and a few new transistors but they are back to life!
    Absolute pain to work on them,
    5 coils each to control them and an electric motor,
    Looks like the two coils that needed replacing were the wrong ones from the factory.

    the old one and the beefier one that should be there.
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    Looking a bit better now!
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    I have a new pinsound board coming and speakers!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    I've a load of sample LEDs coming from china in the next week or two for a website I'm working on, will give you a few to try out smelly hand.


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sound,
    any sign of that paint?
    Whitewater needs it badly,
    I still havent gotten tales from the crypt back from my parents house :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Sound,
    any sign of that paint?
    Whitewater needs it badly,
    I still havent gotten tales from the crypt back from my parents house :(

    Paint on the way, allow 28days delivery:eek: should be here within the next 10 by now I reckon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Got 2 X-Acto knives delivered this morning as they seem perfect for some fine cutting/trimming on mods. They dont seem to come with caps(or you need to buy a kit or something), and are super sharp.
    So obviously I sliced myself to bits within 20mins :mad:

    Anyway, super glued my hand back together and quickly went about protecting myself from these bad boys :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,058 ✭✭✭Doge


    Steve X2 wrote: »
    So obviously I sliced myself to bits within 20mins :mad:

    Pics or GTFO!


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  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was playing a 3 player game of roadshow on Saturday evening when the machine just switched off,
    Looks like the CPU board has failed.
    sending it off to Luke Wells in the UK for repair.
    If you havent check out his youtube channel,he does some great repair vids.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfnHInA-5AU


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Did anyone else get the Dreamcast USB Host Controller from that guy in Kazakhstan(the same guy who did the 3DO version)?
    Just wondering what people did with the USB port sticking out the back of the console. As in did anyone desolder it or just do what I did below.

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    This is what the guy thinks most people want:
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I didn't get it, but I'd prob just desolder the USB header & keep everything internal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Myrddin wrote: »
    I didn't get it, but I'd prob just desolder the USB header & keep everything internal

    Had a bad experience desoldering the USB header on the 3DO version. So decided this was best for now :)
    Maybe when my soldering skills improve I'll redo it in another DC. I ended up giving up on the (rather pricey) 3DO version after getting pissed off and got another from him. I must try fix that other one up actually or trade it on maybe if someone wants to fix it with better soldering skills than me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,277 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    I'd desolder and use a USB port like this mounted on an 'L' bracket under the internal cover under the disc lid. No cables and neater than it handing out the arse of it, waiting to be broken :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    KeRbDoG wrote: »
    I'd desolder and use a USB port like this mounted on an 'L' bracket under the internal cover under the disc lid. No cables and neater than it handing out the arse of it, waiting to be broken :)

    Yeah, I'll get around to it in the future :)
    The 3DO version is the important one and thats all sorted inside and hidden in my JAP RGB FZ1.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Got a Vectrex to look at, no sound or controls was the symptom. Thankfully all the investigative work was already done and replacement chip supplied so just a case of fitting the new AY-3-8910.

    Bit on the dusty side so had to give it a mini clean..

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    So thankfully another Vectrex back to live :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    My Vectrex is extra buzzy and sometimes needs 2 attempts to power up. What might i need to do on that one?
    Replace that AY-3-8910 thing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Steve X2 wrote: »
    My Vectrex is extra buzzy and sometimes needs 2 attempts to power up. What might i need to do on that one?
    Replace that AY-3-8910 thing?

    I'd say you a power supply problem on that one rather than a logic failure. Was it ever recapped ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    I'd say you a power supply problem on that one rather than a logic failure. Was it ever recapped ?

    Never recapped no. So I need to be on the look out for a new PSU, or there is something that can be done with the old one?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Not a mod as such, but wondering if anyone with even basic photoshop skills might be able to help me. The two images below are borders/skins for the GB/GBC emu's on my bartop. The white around the edges just looks awful...can this white space around the two game boys be made black at all?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    The PSU board in these is fairly complicated, it has the HV section to drive the tube as well so not something you'll get anywhere apart from another Vectrex. Probably can be rebuilt but finding stuff like the LOPT could be very difficult.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Not a mod as such, but wondering if anyone with even basic photoshop skills might be able to help me. The two images below are borders/skins for the GB/GBC emu's on my bartop. The white around the edges just looks awful...can this white space around the two game boys be made black at all?

    Would you not be better off with a transparent png image with the borders removed completely?
    I've attached the png's.

    The PSU board in these is fairly complicated, it has the HV section to drive the tube as well so not something you'll get anywhere apart from another Vectrex. Probably can be rebuilt but finding stuff like the LOPT could be very difficult.

    Hmm, i do have another donor vectrex.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,630 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Not a mod as such, but wondering if anyone with even basic photoshop skills might be able to help me. The two images below are borders/skins for the GB/GBC emu's on my bartop. The white around the edges just looks awful...can this white space around the two game boys be made black at all?

    I'll have a look at it tomorrow.
    I know a guy with a perfectly legit copy if CS5 at home.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve X2 wrote: »
    Would you not be better off with a transparent png image with the borders removed completely?
    I've attached the png's.

    Cheers Steve. The emulator needs them in BMP format though, & when I save these png's as bmp's, the white remains...:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,885 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Myrddin wrote: »
    Cheers Steve. The emulator needs them in BMP format though, & when I save these png's as bmp's, the white remains...:(

    Ok, here they are in black. Should be ok I think.
    Just rename them as i added some text.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The look absolutely perfect Steve, much appreciated dude.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Quick question while we're on the subject of skins, does anyone know of a GBA emulator that has full screen skin support? As in, I'd like the image of a GBA on screen in full screen with the game playing in the smaller screen...can't seem to find one though. Visual Boy Advance supports skins but not in full screen mode...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    So I want to try my hand at soldering and simple console mods so I've decided to do the 50/60hz & Region mod on my megadrive 2. I know it's a little bit more complicated compared to the model 1 megadrive but I reckon it should be doable. After some research I figure I'm going to do it this way, rather than try lifting the pins.



    Just a couple of questions though. At 7.50 in the video, where he locates the 5v and ground points, would it be ok to solder 2 sets of wires to each? As in 2 wires coming from the one 5v point and 2 from the ground point rather than bridging them from the switches if that makes sense? Also, any recommendations on a cheap soldering iron, preferably that I can pick up in a shop in Dublin. Nothing fancy, just something that'll do these type of jobs.


  • Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I definitely would practice on some thing that's already broken.
    Get flux , braid solder sucker and isopropyl alcohol.
    As for the iron. Skip the cheap one and get something that works.


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