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eddhorse

Rust remover you say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLaBFkeHG0A

MrVestek

eddhorse wrote: »

Rust remover you say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLaBFkeHG0A

Aha... now I know where to get the first ingredient for my death ray...

CiDeRmAn

MrVestek wrote: »

Aha... now I know where to get the first ingredient for my death ray...

I thought you people called them phasers?

eddhorse wrote: »

Rust remover you say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLaBFkeHG0A

I'm guessing you should never use them to clean rusty mirrors, unless you like the sound of your eyeballs popping.

CiDeRmAn

This is by far the coolest thing I've seen on the internet in a while, possibly due to professional interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR1Zve3tRpw

Finding veins is an absolute pain, one of these would speed things up considerably, and be cool.
You don't want this happening,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_VWGV6_N9o

eddhorse

That vein thing is good, the missus always has trouble when we go to donate in the blood clinic.

CiDeRmAn

eddhorse wrote: »

That vein thing is good, the missus always has trouble when we go to donate in the blood clinic.

You can get them from some Chinese sites for around €120 or so, basically a camera that can see IR and the visual gets a little processed before being projected back to the skin with a cool low temp blue led projector, giving a real time display of the blood vessels under the skin.
I'd love to see these in work, we would have common issues with people with deep veins or poor condition veins and a device like this would make it easy to target those good condition vessels, perhaps on the back of the hands or feet.
The medical ones are big and serious looking, but they all operate on the same simple principle, some output to a monitor instead of projecting onto the arm but the projecting ones look so fantastic!

eddhorse

Makes sense to have them if it saves someone 10 minutes of vein finding. 10 minutes spent elsewhere.

Steve X2

When I used to work in the IFSC and collect packages from the nearby Amiens Street Parcel Motel, I definitely used to see some potential customers for this vein finding gadget

ripperman

Need some help guys if possible?
The monitor seems to be gone on one of my machines and to be honest I don’t know where to start with it. Never was an arcade monitor expert. Too scary for me!

Basically I switched it on, no picture.
Then turned it off, unplugged it, tried again, picture was back perfectly albeit for a couple of minutes.
It then started making a fizzing noise, picture started rolling and getting scrambled, on and on.
Seemed like a loose connection to me so took a look at the hack setup I have.
It’s the rgb and sync cables from a 60 in 1 board to make composite connected to the monitor and then ground from the 60 in 1 to ground on the monitor too.

They looked fine but re-stripped and reconnected them and same story, rolling picture, fizzing sound. This continued for a bit, but then it just went completely. Nothing at all now, no fizz no picture no matter what I do with the wires. Insight or thoughts on this? Any advice would be so welcome. Cheers.

eddhorse

What monitor is it? Any pictures?

ripperman

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

Doge

Today i'm concentrating on updating my PS2 SoftMod which currently uses an internal HDD and FreeMcBoot Memory Card.

Since I'm having problems currently installing ISOs over the network, with various versions of HDL Dump/Dumb,
I'm going to install the HDD-OSD exploit, which is basically like FreeMcBoot, but all that is required is to install the soft mod on a hard drive and you're good to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY29-bQv_zo

I love how its built into the GUI of the PS2 Browser, rather than in the main menu like Free McBoot.

I will then use a utility called HDLGameInstaller which is more recent and better than the older HDL Dump, it will only work on the HDD-OSD exploit though.


I will also be trying out the POPStarter PS1 emulator which has been steadily growing in game compatibility.

Myrddin

^^ Interesting, let us know how you get on with those

Saipanne

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

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

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'

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

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 !!

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?

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.

eddhorse

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

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.

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: »

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!

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

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?

Ship it over and back with parcel motel,

£35 plus parts.

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!

Steve X2

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

eddhorse

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