It’s about time doing some catching up on content. I have bought a new place back in 2018 but has been too busy updating. I had lots of photos and projects that I had worked on past couple years, will be going back adding them as I see fit.
Arcadeist – Ping's Game Trove
Collection of my Arcade Cabinets and PCB and Modifications!
Vewlix Monitor Upgrade – Hadouken Arcade Universal Monitor Bracket
Finally got around to ordering Hadouken-Aracde’s universal custom monitor bracket for Vewlix cabinets. Instead of using the provided screw and doing a drilling/counter sink. I just bought a 3mm screw and washer+nut kit and used the original metal casing and it held up perfectly.
Bracket was purchased from : https://www.hadouken-arcade.com/
The 3mm washer+nut kit was from amazon : https://amzn.to/3nEHMDG
Monitor I used was LG 32ML600M-B : https://amzn.to/3akCIAU
CrossBeats REV Sunrise Cabinet Unlocked All Music and Extras on Offline Mode
Took a year, but finally managed to modify the game on the original cabinet. Unlocked all music 500+ Music, iOS music, Event music, etc.
All arcade buttons, coin mech, headphone jack, LED and Speakers functioning! Still uses original security key (you cannot run with out a working unit). I created a launcher that’s able to play either the new version or the original 1.04 Offline version.
Captain’s Auction
Here to check out if there’s anything to pick up.
Rockman 2 Power Fighters
Play through for Rockman 2 Power fighters, recently acquired CPS2 Board.
Street Fighter EX Plus
This game’s a lot harder then how I remember back in the day. Character’s recovery is so slow either from knockdown or a move and nothing comes out.
Gotta try it again some time.
Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter
Just a play through one of my favorite CPS2 game
Darius Gaiden Extra Version
Darius Gaiden Extra Version on Taito F3 (Darksoft’s Multi Cart System)
Marvel vs Capcom
Golden Axe: Fixing No Video then No Sound…
Obtained a beat up stored board for cheap. Pretty dusty but all the CPU EPROMS seem to be there!
After blow dusting and going over the board with my trusty PCB dusting brush, First thing I noticed is possible broken traces, so I took some time to go through all questionable traces with my continuity tester for good 2 hours.
Upon powering the board… black screen… hmmm… further inspection, I notice some potential shorting from bent IC pin’s at the bottom of the board. So I spent more time trying to straighten out pins as much as possible and make sure none are shorting.
Still black screen, I did some research and found out possibly the main encrypted CPU battery being 30+ year old probably went bad, thanks to good information about resurrecting the board from The Dead Battery Society http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/ & JAMMARCADE http://www.jammarcade.net/ I’m able to burn the proper decrypted 5 & 7 EPROM as well as swapping out for standard Motorola 68000 CPU
The board came alive!
Now, another problem, I get no sound, turning the potentiometer for the audio and hear just humming noises. Might be issue with the Z80B CPU?
I end up replacing it but still no sound, so I take a look at the top of the board, and found the potential problem near the Z80B CPU traces seem like they got pretty deep scratch from something impacting it. Continuity tester confirmed this and find 2 traces bad. I simply jumpped it with a wire. Audio’s ALIVE!
Board seems to be working properly, and I will be doing a full test run with few weeks.
Also at the same time I have acquired Sega Altered Beast, still working in it’s original form with the battery intact. I lucked out on this one!