19-1 Cave Shmup PCB *Update Tested working

CathalDublin

Won this on Facebook, it's of no use to me, as it's not 15khz out, I assume its 31khz as when I plug it into my cab everything shows up not once, not twice but trice:) See pics below.
I can use the buttons to browse the menus, etc but its impossible to read what's displayed as it's all scrunched up.

Anyway as I got it for free and I've no idea if its working/decent it'd be rude to charge for it so ill swap for something that you don't want that could interest me (preferably arcade related).
There is also mini usb, I've read a few threads of people in the process of reverse engineering these boards which is interesting



**UPDATE**
Now I've sussed this is 100% working although it would appear not to support 15Khz monitors but working with VGA out and still showing 3 times on my 15Khz monitor.
Just realised I'd a VGA monitor there all along and there is VGA out on the board, plugged it in and its working perfectly, the games are
Mazinger
1941
Mercs
19xx
Dimahoo
1945K III
Aero Fighters
Turbo Force
Guwange
Hotdog Storm
Fever SOS
Esp. Ra.De
DoDonPachi
Dangun Feveron
Air Gallet
Miss Puzzle
Varth
F-1 Grand Prix
F-1 Grand Prix 2

They are all hideable too and there is some other weird settings which I'm not sure what they do to be honest

CiDeRmAn

What games are on this board?
Would it properly work on my trisync AWSD?

CathalDublin

To be honest I've no idea, it won't coin on my jamma loom but I haven't everything wired up and I know these multiboards can do funny things sometimes.
I'll try get a loan of a monitor to test it, but I'm not sure as all writing is squished up and I'm not too familiar with schmups, definitely airgallet anyway.
The guy I got it from said it played but he'd it plugged into a pc monitor.

CiDeRmAn

Not sure what I have to trade for that.
I don't have any arcade stuff anymore.
Is there any other area you're interested in?

CathalDublin

**UPDATE**
Now I've sussed this is 100% working although it would appear not to support 15Khz monitors but working with VGA out and still showing 3 times on my 15Khz monitor.
Just realised I'd a VGA monitor there all along and there is VGA out on the board, plugged it in and its working perfectly,
the games are:
Mazinger
1941
Mercs
19xx
Dimahoo
1945K III
Aero Fighters
Turbo Force
Guwange
Hotdog Storm
Fever SOS
Esp. Ra.De
DoDonPachi
Dangun Feveron
Air Gallet
Miss Puzzle
Varth
F-1 Grand Prix
F-1 Grand Prix 2

They are all hideable too and there is some other weird settings which I'm not sure what they do to be honest

CathalDublin

OK now I'm happy it works as it should I'd consider selling it if no one had anything to trade but I've no idea how much its worth?
Here is a video of it running, ignore the noise from the fish tank in the background and my cabinet currently has no speaker in it but the sound does work. Emulation looks smooth and nice too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trElLNxUFF0

Looks really interesting and some great titles too, be interested myself only have 15hz and jvs-31hz, would be great though.

CathalDublin

I can't find any references to it on the internet at all, anything to swap?
Would it be worth €80?
That's roughly what the usual horizontal 19-1 classic game boards are priced at

The Last Bandit

Very surprised it doesn't support 15KHz monitors, after all the hassle of adding a Jamma connector any everything.

Noticed that Jamma pins 'e' & '27' are mapped to a button instead of GND (can't imagine any shooters using 6 buttons though), Jamma looms should GND this connection and this could cause problems.

Andrew76

Nice little oddity there Cathal. Almost tempted myself but sticking with a one PCB in the cab at a time rule.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Would it properly work on my trisync AWSD?

Yes it should work no problem on your AWSD. Although you'd need to rotate the monitor by the looks of it.

CathalDublin

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Noticed that Jamma pins 'e' & '27' are mapped to a button instead of GND (can't imagine any shooters using 6 buttons though), Jamma looms should GND this connection and this could cause problems.

I noticed that too but my loom is grounding it and its not causing any issues so I assume that's just a board which was used for multiple different multigame revisions

Just another update, you can exit the game without resetting the board by holding in P1 for 10-15 seconds

Andrew76

Just curious, does it save the scores after powering off? Don't see a battery so maybe not.

CathalDublin

I not sure I'll check tonight when I'm home

safetyboy

How do the games play, any lag?

CathalDublin

I've only played a few for a couple mins but seem to play very well even when the screens full of sprites, can do a video of one of them if anyone wants, I'm note familiar with the games on the board, which ones would be hardest to emulate?

CathalDublin

Andrew76 wrote: »

Just curious, does it save the scores after powering off? Don't see a battery so maybe not.

Afraid not

CiDeRmAn

Dammit, should have snapped this up when it was busted and nearly free!

CathalDublin

You can archive this, I'm going to hang onto it!