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CathalDublin · 01-08-2019 12:23am

BrownFinger wrote: »

Anyone know where to get cps2 battery's?
What's the going rate?
Also need to replace the fan so if I could get both at once it would be handy.!!

Order me one too and I'll give you the money
https://www.smallcab.net/battery-holder-cps2-p-1890.html?osCsid=4al7vq8qs8k4ei9vjak1ogug06
https://www.smallcab.net/battery-cps2-p-1889.html

I think 60x60x15 PC fan fits perfectly, if its just noisy you could stick a resistor on the positive inline and slow it down, I've read a few folks doing that

01-08-2019 7:56am

do you want a battery and a holder?
I'll sawp you for that red tmold !

-they are very expensive for postage 14e for 2 batteries and 2 holders!!!!

o1s1n · 01-08-2019 12:01pm

I stuck a fan in my AVP ages ago, it reduced the sound down from aircraft taking off to zero at all. Can't hear a peep out of it.

This is the exact one I put in it, same seller and auction.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/292272321350

No modding needed at all. Bit annoying trying to actually get into the board due to a security screw that comes apart like butter, but once you're in you just drop in the new fan and connect it up.

CathalDublin · 01-08-2019 1:52pm

o1s1n wrote: »

I stuck a fan in my AVP ages ago, it reduced the sound down from aircraft taking off to zero at all. Can't hear a peep out of it.

This is the exact one I put in it, same seller and auction.

Mines like that too

BrownFinger wrote: »

do you want a battery and a holder?
I'll sawp you for that red tmold !

-they are very expensive for postage 14e for 2 batteries and 2 holders!!!!

Well thats expensive, maybe try parcelwizard? anyway I'll give you half, yep a holder and battery for me too, I wonder is there a way to install a CR2032 like you can do on the pinballs

26-08-2019 4:27pm

Anyone got a spare cps2 kick harness?
Mine is working but its a total hackjob.
A ribbon cable with electrical connectors on it

BGOllie · 11-10-2019 6:40pm

Fixed a technos Renegade for Mozzie . had sound and sprite issues and what seemed to be lumps of dried coca cola goo on the board . It had a distinctive burned sugar smell when heated , a first, but not unpleasant, repair experience

Some of it though was creating a lot of static on the sound circuit and had most likely helped in corroding 6 of the eproms and sockets. Replaced em, burned new roms and replaced all the electrolytic caps in the sound section. I also gave it a good clean and the board is back working fine.

Interestingly the first CPU eprom doesn't seem to be in mame. This version of the board has no MCU so I first thought this was a bootleg, but all the other roms check as the US version. I seems the cpu eprom has been modify to bypass the MCU altogether.
I've dumped the content anyway and I am checking with Porchy whether this is already available (I haven't found it anywhere if it is) and maybe if we can have it made into a new mame rom set

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11-10-2019 7:01pm

Excellent work as per! Will be especially happy to have this back at 100% as it’s a personal favorite, spent countless hours rewinding the cassette tape on my spectrum 48k with this and it’s sequel target renegade.. amazing work and hopefully we can get this dumped and added to mame, cola mmmmmmmm.. tasty lol

80s Synth Pop · 11-10-2019 8:11pm

Great job on the repair.

Renegade was a great game on the speccy. I used to play on the keyboard to do the jump kick easier for those bikers on level 2

I was 6 or 7 years old and still remember it.

Then target renegade came out.. TWO PLAYERS!!! We couldn't believe it. Played it to death.

Unfortunately the less said about Renegade 3 the better

Doge · 12-10-2019 8:12am

BGOllie wrote: »

Fixed a technos Renegade for Mozzie . had sound and sprite issues and what seemed to be lumps of dried coca cola goo on the board . It had a distinctive burned sugar smell when heated , a first, but not unpleasant, repair experience

Reminds me of when my vintage oscilloscope left a massive fart while powered on the last time, some horrible gas smell was coming out of it.

Not sure what it was, could have been a dead moth inside it but i havent had the balls to turn it on since!

You can see the valves glowing through the air holes, the thing is a fire hazard!

Doge · 12-10-2019 8:20am

Love the level 1 soundtrack in the C64 version of Target Renegade and its heavy use of Pulse Width Modulation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d52RkU0CPBg

Prefect_1998 · 17-10-2019 9:11pm

Long time lurker..

But had to post this retro throwback art

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/669551552/black-monster-screen-printing-character?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=anotherworld&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&organic_search_click=1

Signed by Eric the designer of another world.. one of my early favourites , i got some stickers , some pins, postcards, personalised note and the big limited lino print of the famous game monster.

Amazing pack and well worth the money

The Last Bandit · 18-10-2019 2:33pm

Got this dead Mega CD working again. Existing BIOS mod wasn't working and every smd cap had leaked its goo.
Installed new caps, had to relocated a few due to leak damaged pads and fitted a new region free BIOS so no more switching needed.

Inviere · 18-10-2019 4:01pm

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Got this dead Mega CD working again. Existing BIOS mod wasn't working and every smd cap had leaked its goo.
Installed new caps, had to relocated a few due to leak damaged pads and fitted a new region free BIOS so no more switching needed.

That wasn't the non-working one I sold Cidey was it?

eddhorse · 18-10-2019 4:25pm

danielle_door wrote: »

Long time lurker..

But had to post this retro throwback art

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/669551552/black-monster-screen-printing-character?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=anotherworld&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&organic_search_click=1

Signed by Eric the designer of another world.. one of my early favourites , i got some stickers , some pins, postcards, personalised note and the big limited lino print of the famous game monster.

Amazing pack and well worth the money

That's quite good, I'm sure Olly could reproduce that.

The Last Bandit · 18-10-2019 5:13pm

Inviere wrote: »

That wasn't the non-working one I sold Cidey was it?

It his alright, so probably the same one then.

Inviere · 18-10-2019 5:24pm

The Last Bandit wrote: »

It his alright, so probably the same one then.

God, I can only imagine the modding job. I done it about 15/16 years ago when I discovered soldering

Was it the chip itself that went bad, or the soldering? Interesting that the caps leaked too, glad you brought it back to life!

o1s1n · 18-10-2019 6:51pm

Inviere wrote: »

God, I can only imagine the modding job. I done it about 15/16 years ago when I discovered soldering Was it the chip itself that went bad, or the soldering? Interesting that the caps leaked too, glad you brought it back to life!

Don't worry, I opened up a few SNES carts recently that you did some soldering on about a decade ago and it was like looking at lost work of Di Vinci

Inviere · 18-10-2019 7:13pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Don't worry, I opened up a few SNES carts recently that you did some soldering on about a decade ago and it was like looking at lost work of Di Vinci

Lol, the battery holder mods? I'd a rough idea of what to do by then (says you he tells me now after handing over my Chrono Trigger to him

). I barely remember doing that Mega CD though, I wouldn't say it would be winning awards that's for sure...

The Last Bandit · 18-10-2019 9:32pm

Inviere wrote: »

God, I can only imagine the modding job. I done it about 15/16 years ago when I discovered soldering Was it the chip itself that went bad, or the soldering? Interesting that the caps leaked too, glad you brought it back to life!

It was a bit hairy in places alright, but we all have to learn somewhere

Not a fan of those piggyback mods so just ripped it all out and fitted a new socketed bios.

o1s1n · 19-10-2019 3:14pm

Inviere wrote: »

Lol, the battery holder mods? I'd a rough idea of what to do by then (says you he tells me now after handing over my Chrono Trigger to him ). I barely remember doing that Mega CD though, I wouldn't say it would be winning awards that's for sure...

Yeah you did a whole rake of them, did a few Megadrive carts too.

Mad to think it's so long ago now that I've since had to replace the batteries in some of them!

CiDeRmAn · 19-10-2019 7:20pm

I am, in a word, excited...

KeRbDoG · 19-10-2019 10:22pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Don't worry, I opened up a few SNES carts recently that you did some soldering on about a decade ago and it was like looking at lost work of Di Vinci

I just opened my original Xbox after seeing it in passing while hunting for something else, remembered that I must remove that battery capacitor as they are meant to leak...which it was doing in style! All cleaned up and then saw my early soldering. Had to redo them all, couldn't leave them like that

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I am, in a word, excited...

Sega/MegaCD32X excited?

Inviere · 20-10-2019 6:05am

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah you did a whole rake of them, did a few Megadrive carts too.

Mad to think it's so long ago now that I've since had to replace the batteries in some of them!

I remember Sonic 3 stopped me in my tracks....no battery backup! It was voodoo!

CiDeRmAn · 20-10-2019 4:45pm

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Sega/MegaCD32X excited?

Not sure...
Probably not...

The Last Bandit · 29-10-2019 12:03pm

Done a few satisfying little jobs on consoles over the weekend.

Found a Xeno gamecube modchip in a drawer so had to install that, pretty simple mod compared to those early Xbox and PS2 mods !! Little tweak of the DVD laser pot and dvd-r are a go

My Xbox 360 Slim started shutting down due to temperature errors and eventually refuse to boot due to over temperature - not booting because of temp error is completely bogus as its stone cold.
Quick search confirmed this, a set of 0 Ohm resistors are know to fail on this model causing the error. Simple solder job to restore it to full health

Symptom is a loud fan and flashing red led, so if you get this don't chuck it as its a handy fix.

L1m1tless · 04-11-2019 8:33pm

The collection. Finally all working 100%

Painting the side art on robotron at the moment. DIY job.

Doge · 04-11-2019 8:47pm

L1m1tless wrote: »

The collection. Finally all working 100%

Painting the side art on robotron at the moment. DIY job.

Wow!

Oh I know a certain mod who will be very jealous of that Robotron replica!

Would you be a completionist when it comes to Arcade games too?

Its a rare skill these days!

BGOllie · 04-11-2019 8:51pm

nice lineup. Tetris is what I had in mind for one of those cabs . Robotron is a good idea too .

L1m1tless · 04-11-2019 8:52pm

Try and get them as close as possible anyway.

I'm still learning. Took me a long time to get these done.

I used the cab I got from beejee for the tetris. Handy as it was already red &#55357;&#56842;

beejee · 04-11-2019 9:05pm

Nice little lineup there. There's something quite neat about the sound of many arcades playing at once

L1m1tless · 04-11-2019 9:35pm

Definitly! I think I could squeeze in a couple more. Need to get a driver in here!

beejee · 05-11-2019 3:26pm

L1m1tless wrote: »

Definitly! I think I could squeeze in a couple more. Need to get a driver in here!

Now that you've got a dual joystick robotron, you should consider getting firetrap by data East. Fun game!

L1m1tless · 05-11-2019 9:09pm

I shall check it out. Chase HQ is next if I get some money together. Grail cab for me.

beejee · 06-11-2019 5:07pm

L1m1tless wrote: »

I shall check it out. Chase HQ is next if I get some money together. Grail cab for me.

I remember passing on an untested chase hq board to a member here, forget who. Wonder if they got the full cabinet up and running?

beejee · 06-11-2019 5:11pm

Got this capcom board back at lunchtime, it had a dodgy sound section, music was a bit off. But fully working again thanks to the mysterious boardsie

great work!

KeRbDoG · 06-11-2019 5:46pm

beejee wrote: »

Got this capcom board back at lunchtime, it had a dodgy sound section, music was a bit off. But fully working again thanks to the mysterious boardsie great work!

Cool, whats the board/game? Gun Smoke?

BGOllie · 06-11-2019 6:22pm

Capcom section Z

Just needed a re-cap and new DACs .
Great little game I must say, never played it before but I had fun for the few days it was here. might be on the lookout for one at some point too

L1m1tless · 06-11-2019 7:21pm

beejee wrote: »

I remember passing on an untested chase hq board to a member here, forget who. Wonder if they got the full cabinet up and running?

Theres a chase hq 2 on adverts but the huge sit down one.

At least there'll be one on the new place in Limerick i can go play

beejee · 06-11-2019 7:25pm

BGOllie wrote: »

Capcom section Z
Just needed a re-cap and new DACs .
Great little game I must say, never played it before but I had fun for the few days it was here. might be on the lookout for one at some point too

Getting to the actual section z level is no joke, so a game with legs too!

Thanks again

beejee · 06-11-2019 7:27pm

L1m1tless wrote: »

Theres a chase hq 2 on adverts but the huge sit down one.

At least there'll be one on the new place in Limerick i can go play

The sequel lost a bit of that playability somehow, but good that there's am original somewhere. Will definitely be down at some point to check it all out

80s Synth Pop · 06-11-2019 9:17pm

beejee wrote: »

The sequel lost a bit of that playability somehow, but good that there's am original somewhere. Will definitely be down at some point to check it all out

Chase HQ2 was the very last arcade cabinet manufactured by the once mighty electrocoin

beejee · 06-11-2019 9:33pm

They brought out a lot of great machines, chase hq 2 wasn't a great endpoint. Darius was a great machine, quite cool with the double screen, and they had their own versions of the mortal kombat too

L1m1tless · 06-11-2019 9:43pm

Cool, you are a wealth of knowledge!
I've actually never played chase hq 2.

The small arcade where I grew up had the original. Trying to recreate the place at my house Haha.

beejee · 06-11-2019 10:24pm

Cool machines alright, here's the electrocoin flyers. How cool would that darius machine be to have? Probably weighs 10 ton

beejee · 06-11-2019 10:48pm

Also, someone should suggest that the limerick arcade print out the arcade advertisements to hang about the place, would look cool

L1m1tless · 06-11-2019 10:58pm

Jesus! 45 inch monitor :eek:

eddhorse · 06-11-2019 11:10pm

L1m1tless wrote: »

Jesus! 45 inch monitor :eek:

Thought it was 3 monitors

Jack burton · 06-11-2019 11:11pm

L1m1tless wrote: »

Jesus! 45 inch monitor :eek:

Wouldn't like to be moving that. HOTD2 is 250kg. Blew my hand truck out of it when it was being unloaded

That cab there must be north of 350kg

geotrig · 07-11-2019 10:32am

eddhorse wrote: »

Thought it was 3 monitors

It is as far as i remember and Darius 2 is duel screen and also has a 3 screen version

07-11-2019 10:41am

Doesnt it work by having 2 monitors facing up towards a wide mirror so it looks like one screen?
would hate to have to get the the two monitors set the same .

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