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Kidchameleon · 26-08-2019 6:14pm

beejee wrote: »

Picked up a soldering iron and flux core solder earlier, finally going to learn this stuff to resurrect some arcade boards (hopefully!)

Little tip, grab an old piece of electronics (old video player or the like) with a nice big board for you to practice on. Try de soldering a few bits / soldering a few bits on. You really want to practice before you go near your arcade boards.

beejee · 26-08-2019 6:53pm

Well! I have a dead air buster bootleg that's been kicked and thrown all over the shop. Decided to practice on it first.

Noticed that a chip was raised slightly to one side, checked underneath and someone never soldered it! So I soldered a couple legs for practice, expecting nothing (super sloppy)... And the bloody thing has signs of life! It's struggling to boot and I can make out writing in the background. There's a million to one chance this could be revived!

Also resoldered some legs on a jackal board, and now it's gone from 100% dead to booting too. Tells me one of the roms is bad.

Good start

Jack burton · 26-08-2019 8:23pm

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Little tip, grab an old piece of electronics (old video player or the like) with a nice big board for you to practice on. Try de soldering a few bits / soldering a few bits on. You really want to practice before you go near your arcade boards.

My old vhs and player collection are triggered by this:D

Kidchameleon · 27-08-2019 8:00pm

LOL, well I am a lover of most old tech but VHS is definitely one I dont mind going extinct

eddhorse · 27-08-2019 9:15pm

Kidchameleon wrote: »

LOL, well I am a lover of most old tech but VHS is definitely one I dont mind going extinct

I dont know, I see a lot of his video collection and I kinda want some of the old stuff too

beejee · 28-08-2019 3:50pm

Thought this was nuked when I first tested it. Turns out after the ram/rom check, you have to press button 1 and 2 simultaneously to start, phew!

Imagine if the metal slug team made a final fight game, and that's undercover cops. Great beat-em up, full of the zany detail youd expect from that team. Great bosses too, first boss you fight with a trash compactor operating in the background, so if you can feck him into it, its an instant kill. But he can do it to you too!

Nods to other irem games like rtype, such a small tv playing it in the playfield. Cn maybe make it out in a picture I took (but its running off the tv, so not as clear as a cabinet monitor).

Couple more pcbs to find and im done, getting close

And a special award for anyone who can figure out whats being said when the game starts..."here she comes!" Hershey Cops!"....???? :P

Optimus Prime · 28-08-2019 5:39pm

what games are you after out of curiosity ?

beejee · 28-08-2019 5:53pm

I'd say top of the list is splatterhouse and night slashers. Night slashers in particular is very scarce.

Bunch of others that I can live without but would like such as dungeons and dragons, metamorphic force, demons world, spiderman etc

After that it's cabinets only!

geotrig · 28-08-2019 6:02pm

Nice get ,
There's loads of nightslashers about.lol .. I know cause I've missed out on it so much over the years, mainly due to the premium it's always carried.

geotrig · 28-08-2019 6:05pm

beejee wrote: »

Picked up a soldering iron and flux core solder earlier, finally going to learn this stuff to resurrect some arcade boards (hopefully!)

Also on this, loads of good Vida on yt but more than anything ,practice practice practice x gazillion

Optimus Prime · 28-08-2019 6:11pm

And buy a desoldering gun, and a hot air gun, and a ic tester and a rom programmer and don’t buy cheap solder and get some flux and ... the list never ends haha I’ve spent a fortune the last while.

Speaking of .. does anyone know of a cheap yolk that will test a tmm2063 out of socket ? or any ones the the cheap Chinese tester doesnt, its great but doesn’t test everything.

Is there another handy cheap tester out there I don’t know of ? This is the one i have at the minute

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.ie%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F332783091573

o1s1n · 28-08-2019 7:36pm

I love Undercover Cops! Fantastic game. Did you pick that up in Ireland??

Between that, In The Hunt, Gunforce 2 and the Metal Slug games, some of those Irem/Nazca assets really saw a lot of use!

beejee · 28-08-2019 8:06pm

Gawwwdddamn!! I spent the last hour messing with a broken rtype bootleg, turn it on 20 times to garbled graphics, then 1 time it plays fine. Adjust the power up, then down, then a little more up, then down...driving me round the bend!

Took it all apart, cleaned it, noticed two legs on a chip that looked brownish, not terrible. Soldered one of the legs as a shot in the dark. Now it works everytime, over the moon

That's the first board I can say I actually "fixed", even though it was a bit of blind luck. I was gonna stick it up for sale as nuked, but Ive decided against it. I'll hold onto it as a trophy instead

Optimus Prime · 28-08-2019 8:12pm

Ive fixed a couple lately too and its a great feeling when you get a dead board booting!

beejee · 28-08-2019 8:43pm

Optimus Prime wrote: »

Ive fixed a couple lately too and its a great feeling when you get a dead board booting!

Oh definitely! I thought I was making headway on a jackal board, then a nice blob of solder went under a chip. And of course I don't have solder pump...few more tools to get :P

beejee · 28-08-2019 8:45pm

geotrig wrote: »

Nice get ,
There's loads of nightslashers about.lol .. I know cause I've missed out on it so much over the years, mainly due to the premium it's always carried.

Ive seen one for sale in the space of a year! They go in minutes, apparently. Gonna pin my luck on finding one. And a mint vertexer board too, why not :P

beejee · 28-08-2019 8:48pm

o1s1n wrote: »

I love Undercover Cops! Fantastic game. Did you pick that up in Ireland??

Between that, In The Hunt, Gunforce 2 and the Metal Slug games, some of those Irem/Nazca assets really saw a lot of use!

Unfortunately not, I suppose you cant rely on finding everything in your back yard

I like those irem games (and the various teams involved), pumped out more than a few classics between them. Last thing I read about them was that they were back to pachinko machines, blergh!

Optimus Prime · 28-08-2019 8:48pm

beejee wrote: »

Oh definitely! I thought I was making headway on a jackal board, then a nice blob of solder went under a chip. And of course I don't have solder pump...few more tools to get :P

dont waste your time with a manual one they are useless, i bought this and its great. saves a lot of time, not sure where i seen it first, maybe on Ollies videos.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B011873JQU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

also get a hot air gun thing, i found you still need that to remove chips otherwise you might rip the traces off the board. im only at this a month or so really but ive done it! Im no expert on this stuff, still trying to pick it up myself. like was mentioned previously, there is nothing you cant learn these days watching youtube and with a bit of time. Im still trying to wrap my head around using a logic probe though!!

o1s1n · 28-08-2019 9:17pm

beejee wrote: »

Unfortunately not, I suppose you cant rely on finding everything in your back yard

I like those irem games (and the various teams involved), pumped out more than a few classics between them. Last thing I read about them was that they were back to pachinko machines, blergh!

Yeah they've a fantastic aesthetic! I've had Gunforce 2 on my radar for years and years in particular, really hard to come by unfortunately. Only ever saw a few conversions come up on eBay.

I actually almost bought a Metal Slug pachinko machine a few years ago

DaveyDave · 02-09-2019 4:46pm

Got a PlayStation and a silver phat PlayStation 2 off the GF. No idea if they work and there's only a PS2 controller and 1 AV cable between them. I'll have to give them a good scrub coming from a smoking household.

No photos because they're rough looking :P

beejee · 02-09-2019 9:14pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah they've a fantastic aesthetic! I've had Gunforce 2 on my radar for years and years in particular, really hard to come by unfortunately. Only ever saw a few conversions come up on eBay.

I actually almost bought a Metal Slug pachinko machine a few years ago

Geostorm looks the business alright

Not so sure about a pachinko machine, unless its in a yakuza game!

beejee · 02-09-2019 9:19pm

Classic arcade beat-em up, Vendetta. Small enough pcb. Have a bunch of the 3/4 player arcade games, really need to get my hands on a konami 4 player cabinet.

To think I had both a simpsons and turtles cabinet parked outside the house, for 50 quid each, and it all went arseways...that's going to annoy me for at least another decade!!!! :P

Jack burton · 03-09-2019 10:33am

beejee wrote: »

To think I had both a simpsons and turtles cabinet parked outside the house, for 50 quid each, and it all went arseways...that's going to annoy me for at least another decade!!!! :P

It even annoys me and I had nothing to do with it haha

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 04-09-2019 10:31am

Haven't posted anything here in a while. Recently bought the Analogue Mega SG.
Was stunned at how fast it arrived at my door. Ordered it last Friday, and it arrived on Tuesday (well, it technically arrived on Monday, but I wasn't home when the postie got to my door)

I had the option to get this, or wait for the Mega Drive Mini.

I came to the conclusion that I'm nearly done with Emulation machines

I say "nearly" because I actually still enjoy my SNES/NES Mini, but I do intend on getting the Super Nt down the line.

My console collection is getting ridiculous at this stage lol I'm running out of room.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 12-09-2019 11:28am

Sorry for the double post

The Disney games aren't in the greatest of condition (have new replacement boxes on the way) but for the price I paid I won't complain.

Aladdin: €12
Lion King, World of Illusion & Castle of Illusion: €14 each
NHL Bundle: €34 (incl p&p)
James Pond: €30 (incl p&p)

This brings my Mega Drive collection up to 55

Kidchameleon · 12-09-2019 12:22pm

Pond 2 is fantastic. If you haven't got Pond 3, I highly recommend it. World of Illusion is great aswell, I havnt had a proper run of Castle of Illusion, it will be the first thing I fire up on my MD Mini.

DaveyDave · 12-09-2019 7:01pm

I've been thinking about getting one of the NHL games. I think 95 is highly rated.

super_furry · 13-09-2019 12:58pm

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Haven't posted anything here in a while. Recently bought the Analogue Mega SG.
Was stunned at how fast it arrived at my door. Ordered it last Friday, and it arrived on Tuesday (well, it technically arrived on Monday, but I wasn't home when the postie got to my door)

How much did it cost you delievered? Been tempted by the Super NT but the delivery charge and import tax have put me off.

CiDeRmAn · 13-09-2019 5:12pm

A new addition to the G&W collection arrived the other day.
Donkey Kong II, multi-screen piece of loveliness.
Only €30 with postage too, barely a mark on it, so it was well looked after.
I'm still going to find an elusive, cheap Parachute, Fire and Octopus some day...

beejee · 13-09-2019 6:34pm

sugarman wrote: »

First get in a long time!

I've always wanted a lynx since I seen it in a gaming magazine back in the day .. thankfully my parents where in the know and got me a Game Gear instead but I've went all those years wondering what I've missed out on.

I've been scouring eBay and the likes for months waiting for a good one to pop up, but prices have gone mad. I took a gamble on this one, it's very clean but doesn't power on. Should just be the old voltage regulatar or transistors, I've ordered them up along with caps so we'll see!
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The lynx! I remember an old newsagents near me had one at the time. It was set up like an arcade machine, cost 10p 20p for a few minutes playtime, like a megatech or playchoice cabinet.

Wonder was that a diy job for the lynx, and far from "official" ?! Never saw anything else like it anywhere.

Love oddball things like that

Kidchameleon · 13-09-2019 7:01pm

beejee wrote: »

The lynx! I remember an old newsagents near me had one at the time. It was set up like an arcade machine, cost 10p 20p for a few minutes playtime

Mame of shame that way

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* actually no that sounds pretty cool

beejee · 13-09-2019 7:06pm

Ah, I don't mean it was in an actual cabinet. It was more like a display pod kinda thing?? Fuzzy memory, but it didn't look totally naff, maybe it was official?? But very sceptical it was!

beejee · 13-09-2019 7:12pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A new addition to the G&W collection arrived the other day.
Donkey Kong II, multi-screen piece of loveliness.
Only €30 with postage too, barely a mark on it, so it was well looked after.
I'm still going to find an elusive, cheap Parachute, Fire and Octopus some day...

Remember banba/toymaster on henry street in Dublin used to have all of them. Was somewhere near arnotts, before it moved up to the street corner. Had them all in display cases, cool stuff

CiDeRmAn · 13-09-2019 8:37pm

beejee wrote: »

Remember banba/toymaster on henry street in Dublin used to have all of them. Was somewhere near arnotts, before it moved up to the street corner. Had them all in display cases, cool stuff

Like a lot of stuff we post about here, if we only had a time machine and cash we'd be sorted.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 15-09-2019 8:34am

super_furry wrote: »

How much did it cost you delievered? Been tempted by the Super NT but the delivery charge and import tax have put me off.

It was about 30 quid delivery and then 51 euro for import tax.

Wasnt cheap. I got lucky with a double wage that's how I decided to buy it

CiDeRmAn · 18-09-2019 9:46pm

Got this yesterday
Super Mario Land 2 Dx.
A full colour hack of the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iegaW5v1XDg

Kidchameleon · 19-09-2019 5:12pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Got this yesterday
Super Mario Land 2 Dx.
A full colour hack of the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iegaW5v1XDg

Always tell my mate who is a big mario fan (and hasnt played Land 2 yet) that its the best game he has never played. Amazing game, love the soundtrack

Retr0gamer · 20-09-2019 12:01am

My first Gameboy game

CiDeRmAn · 20-09-2019 4:54am

The hack also addresses latency issues, with the controls, and the option to play as Luigi.

CiDeRmAn · 20-09-2019 11:52am

More dodgy stuff arrived this morning
A pair of Sonic hacks for the Megadrive,
Sonic 2 Retro Remix
The S Factor: Sonia and Silver
They are supposed to be pretty great.

CiDeRmAn · 24-09-2019 11:12am

Yet more dodgy gear touches down, this time it's Sonic Winter Adventures.

Now, I hear what you're all thinking,
"Ciderman, why would a handsome devil like you feel the need for filthy repro carts when you can simply put them on your Everdrive?"
Well, I don't know... Just feels nicer having a cart sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkbKoMwSifk

KeRbDoG · 24-09-2019 12:37pm

Got me a very dirty Sony Playstation 1 - DTL-H1202 - Debug Console.
Will need a good clean, it has a good few scuffs but meh

Always wanted one. It seems to be the last rev. of debug PS1 consoles, there is a suggestion that there might have been a PSOne debug unit also but there isn't a lot of info online

Kidchameleon · 24-09-2019 5:52pm

Is that a Yaroze or something different?

o1s1n · 24-09-2019 7:07pm

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Is that a Yaroze or something different?

Yaroze is black and for the homebrew scene, the teal ones are commercial debug units (like the PS2 consoles with TEST written on them)

Kidchameleon · 24-09-2019 7:09pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Yaroze is black and for the homebrew scene, the teal ones are commercial debug units (like the PS2 consoles with TEST written on them)

I remember the Playstation magazine had a cover disc with Yaroze games on it, played some of them to death, quality.

Kenjataimu · 24-09-2019 7:17pm

Kidchameleon wrote: »

I remember the Playstation magazine had a cover disc with Yaroze games on it, played some of them to death, quality.

I remember playing a Yaroze soccer game from one of those discs.
Curling in a shot was very satisfying.

KeRbDoG · 24-09-2019 8:04pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Yaroze is black and for the homebrew scene, the teal ones are commercial debug units (like the PS2 consoles with TEST written on them)

The Wikipedia page gives more info, there was blue and green debug units. Blue ones had earlier silicon and the green ones the later revisions.
I believe it wasn't just developers who had them, I think I remember hearing large buyers like the old GamesWorlds type stores and game magazines would also have them to play previews from time to time

CiDeRmAn · 24-09-2019 9:00pm

Damn, that thing is beautiful

CiDeRmAn · 25-09-2019 8:53am

One of the owners of Gamesworld used to have a lovely blue PS sitting on the floor of his office... just sitting there... calling my name...
Damn, I sometimes wonder, on rainy mornings like this one, where it ever went... and does it miss me as I miss it.

KeRbDoG · 25-09-2019 9:13am

sugarman wrote: »

Ive always wondered, are those units spray painted or is it the actual colour of the plastics? I've seen a few abused units go relatively cheap that could clean up nicely if its the plastics.

EDIT: Found my own answer, its the plastic! ...Interesting. Perhaps a good buff would clean them right up.

Cleaned up the console last night, the right amount of rubbing alcohol and the slight scuffs are reduced and it looks a hell of a lot better. Might need to get a drive unit, anyone bought one recently?

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