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  1. I am only doing arcade stuff these days, but if given 5 left it would probably be the following (as of right now) Bosconian Dig dug A dynamo cabinet so I don't have to switch between bubble memories and bubble symphony (my current one is Bubble Symphony themed) Tempest Missile Command Honorable mention to Space Firebird, Gyruss, and Millipede.
  2. Only 5 left? Well then it's trying to figure out what's next. The whole point of a hobby is to keep yourself occupied and for a lot of people that's what collecting is. That or just enjoy the games that I acquired along the way.
  3. Good work, I've done a few of those and they can be a little tricky. It's super important to get started with replacing pc engine/turbo grafix caps because they suffer from the cap plague. It seems like they didnt leak a ton, so that's good news.
  4. Funny enough I have a table too. It's currently missing the monitor and control panels, so it's just a waiting game. I also write repair logs if that helps ya. I am really behind in writing new ones but should be soon. https://www.videogamesage.com/blogs/blog/33-snesnescube64s-repair-logs/
  5. I finished up all the work I wanted to do for now and moved it into the row. I need to do cosmetics but that needs to wait as it isn't very easy to do that kind of work in the basement. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
  6. Well the time has come to work in my first vector. I picked this cabinet up from a KLOV member a little while back and was going to wait to restore it until I moved due to how heavy this cabinet is. However, moving is being pushed back several months so screw it! I brought it home yesterday. First thing I did was validate power. I shotgunned the 2n3055 since I have those on hand (using up the rest of my thermal paste). From there I checked the ripple on the 5V rail. I measured some .4V of AC ripple so I replaced the big blue, after doing such it was good. From there it was testing the game board. To my suprise it booted up! Vectors are a little shakey but I've read that it could be because of the gain pots, those are on order. With the game board outputting known good signals, it was finally time to mess with the monitor. This was my first time working on a G05-802. I figured it wouldn't be too terrible, it was described to me as "the baby mode of monitors". F700 was missing from the deflection board so I assumed the worst that one or both of the deflection transistors was shorted out. Testing it from the connector, I measured a dead short between the collector and emitter pins on the connector. Pulling it, someone had made a goof by swapping places of the 2n3716 and 2n3792. The 2n3716 tested bad, but I ended up swapping the pair (putting them in the correct places). Also replaced fuse F700 with the specified 2A fast blow fuse. This solved that issue, however I had another issue: brightness was cranked up and the adjustment was unresponsive. It is probably responsible for the burn spot on the monitor. This ended up being a simple fix, I believe it was C504, that cap had actually tested bad. While I was there, I replaced all the other caps (except for the 6800uF input filters because I didn't have them on hand). I also reflowed the solder on all of the connectors due to a handful of cold solder joints being present. After that, contrast and brightness were fully adjustable. Right now the game is playable but like I mentioned earlier, the vectors are a little shakey. I am still looking into that. I also have recap the HV cage on the monitor. Hopefully I'll make some progress this week. Overall this cabinet is in good shape and won't need a ton.
  7. Finally made something to help me test the board without the machine. I probably should have done this when I started development...
  8. Need some scrap for a big purchase. Lowered some prices. If you don't like my prices tell me more.
  9. I'm hopefully finishing up the software soon. However, I decided to make a couple minor changes to the hardware: Removed the debug port Removed individual pullup resistors Removed DTR capacitor on reset line (unecessary without debug port) Replaced resistor array with two extra resistors to account for the removed individual pullup resistors. I did an interest check on another forum. If you want one of these speech boards let me know. I am doing one run of these and that's it.
  10. On my bench (technically the trashcan next to my Helifire table) was Nintendo Space Firebird. This one was specifically the Gremlin license but they are the same game for the most part. The problem with this one is that some sprites are garbled or missing. This ended up being one of the quickest repairs I have done. It probably took longer to hook up the board. The problem chip ended up being the second chip I did a spot check on: the 74ls00 at 3D. Probing the chip, I noticed that it had good inputs. However, it had floating outputs: Stacking a new chip on it fixed my graphics. That was ultimately the problematic chip. Pulling it and testing it on my chipmaster shower it to be bad. Fully replacing the chip solved my graphics issue.
  11. It was an incredible disappointment watching the lions this past sunday. Great example of just giving away a game. I suppose there's always next year. Maybe this offseason we can boost our defense.
  12. Be careful with those widescreen tubes. I lot of them are HD televisions which means there is digital processing. That said, I love mine. It even has HDMI.
  13. That's rad. I have a few more flyers. I got one for puzzle bobble 2 and then one for VS Duck Hunt. I wanna get more but I don't have the room right now to display them. It's a plan for the house when I get there. Actually, for cocktail tables it would be kinda cool to have them underneath the glass. I have all this unused room to put something like that there. Problem is that Pre-Donkey Kong Nintendo stuff isn't the easiest to find for a good price.
  14. I got this old Nintendo Radar Scope advert last week.
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