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

weeder

Well lately ive been talking repairs a lot and it seems to come up regularly enough, so why dont we dedicate a thread to it?

can be to ask questions, show repairs or just to give advice or whatever.

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o1s1n

Greatest game of all time? :pac:

Star Lord

Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

CiDeRmAn

:eek:

Where's an Admin when you need one?

Admin!!!
Help, help!
I'm being oppressed!!!

o1s1n

The Last Bandit

Ok so, "Golden Rage" is an ideal compromise..

Make it so.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Go f#!k yourself!

Indeed, Golden Axe or nothing. :pac:

CiDeRmAn

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Paint a 'Streets of Rage' theme on it

Go f#!k yourself!

The Last Bandit

Paint a 'Streets of Rage' theme on it

CiDeRmAn

So, bought this
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And I was going to turn it into a RP0 arcade plug'n play but, realised, that I have quite enough of that stuff in my life already, but not enough Saturn arcade stick!
There are plenty of options out there but the best are pretty pricy so I decided that the stick would be ideal for converting.
Had one of these awful things, surplus to requirements, so it was for the chop!
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And the pcb mod is supposed to be pretty easy...
So, one Kerbdog soldering session later,

Next, to pop it into the XArcade Tankstick and connect it up, it should all work just fine.

Also, there is a quandary of whether or not to spray the control panel surface a uniform colour or see if there's a vinyl out there, the controller is discontinued but if anyone has any suggests I'd be only too delighted to hear them!

Edit: Another quick question, if I wanted to replace the bat type stick and buttons with something more appropriate, are the fittings in there standard? Or is there further modding to be done?

ripperman

eddhorse wrote: »

Also where do the red/yellow and blue/green/white/red go to?

Apologies edd, hadn't noticed this post. The blue/green/white/red from the 60 in 1 board are together to make the composite. They're hooked up to the red and yellow coming from the monitor. Then the ground on the board is hooked to the ground from the monitor too (Not shown in the pics).

Basically the cable coming from the monitor is split open into red, yellow and black and I've attached as above.

As mentioned though if this isn't the problem I'll seriously consider shipping for a service.

ripperman

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Here's another +1 for grant.
If he can't help or offer an opinion you may give up!

Cheers.

TechnoFreek

ripperman wrote: »

Thanks for the info guys. Definitely going to look into this option.

Here's another +1 for grant.
If he can't help or offer an opinion you may give up!

ripperman

Thanks for the info guys. Definitely going to look into this option.

eddhorse

Yeah he is a legend ! Very experienced. Cant remember how much mine cost to be honest.

Steve X2

+1 for Grant in the UK. He does good work.

ripperman

BrownFinger wrote: »

Ship it over and back with parcel motel,

£35 plus parts.

Ah ok. Cool, thanks for that.

Just found his details on jammaplus too. Impressive work!

[Deleted User]

Ship it over and back with parcel motel,

£35 plus parts.

ripperman

eddhorse wrote: »

I've sent my chassis to Grant in Star Leisure Ltd in the UK before.
You can contact him on UKvac or Jammaplus as Gunblade.

Oh wow cool, thanks. Do you mind me asking do you remember roughly the expense involved with that, repairs and shipping etc?

eddhorse

ripperman wrote: »

Ok cool. Thanks for that. I'll look into giving it a bit of a service so!

I've sent my chassis to Grant in Star Leisure Ltd in the UK before.
You can contact him on UKvac or Jammaplus as Gunblade.

ripperman

BrownFinger wrote: »

just pull it all out and get it cleaned up and fixed.
its no biggy
100e would see it serviced.
maybe a bit more if it needs a lopt.
but its 25+ years old.
it needs some love and it'll outlive us all

Ok cool. Thanks for that. I'll look into giving it a bit of a service so!

[Deleted User]

just pull it all out and get it cleaned up and fixed.
its no biggy
100e would see it serviced.
maybe a bit more if it needs a lopt.
but its 25+ years old.
it needs some love and it'll outlive us all

ripperman

BrownFinger wrote: »

I'm not familiar with that model at all.
Fizzing to me says dirty anode cap or a crack in the LOPT.
Turn it on in the dark and look at the chassis.
you should see blue sparks coming from somewhere making the noise.
This will be your problem.

Yeah I know what you mean. Was always a concern with me when buying hardware as old as this. I don't want to replace it with a crt but I may not have a choice? That's a whole other headache for another day.

The problem is that it was fizzing but it's stopped doing that now and nothing is happening with the monitor. The anode is in a really awkward place too. Basically the screen is completely flat and the anode is on the side next to the control panel? I'm guessing I'll have to discharge if I want to mess about with that?

I'll see if its doing anything else though this evening and turn it on in the dark too to see if anything has changed.

Thanks very much for the advice.

eddhorse

Also where do the red/yellow and blue/green/white/red go to?

[Deleted User]

I'm not familiar with that model at all.
Fizzing to me says dirty anode cap or a crack in the LOPT.
Turn it on in the dark and look at the chassis.
you should see blue sparks coming from somewhere making the noise.
This will be your problem.

ripperman

eddhorse wrote: »

What monitor is it? Any pictures?

Any good to you or anyone else at all!?

ripperman wrote: »

It's a Space Invaders, so yeah old school!
Toshiba monitor.
I can take more photos later on this evening if required?

The Last Bandit

BrownFinger wrote: »

finally pulled the finger out and got an eeprom programmer.
burned and tested a rom last night and its all golden!

Just don't drop the eeproms !!

[Deleted User]

finally pulled the finger out and got an eeprom programmer.
burned and tested a rom last night and its all golden!

CiDeRmAn

Myrddin wrote: »

Yer man here has done a few of them - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057373768

Shifty looking fecker...
Watch your bag around him, that's all I'm sayin'

Myrddin

Saipanne wrote: »

Is there any place in Dublin who does the 60hz mod for a pal mega drive?

Yer man here has done a few of them

- http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057373768

Saipanne

Is there any place in Dublin who does the 60hz mod for a pal mega drive?