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Picked up a soldering iron and flux core solder earlier, finally going to learn this stuff to resurrect some arcade boards (hopefully!)
Little tip, grab an old piece of electronics (old video player or the like) with a nice big board for you to practice on. Try de soldering a few bits / soldering a few bits on. You really want to practice before you go near your arcade boards.0 -
Well! I have a dead air buster bootleg that's been kicked and thrown all over the shop. Decided to practice on it first.
Noticed that a chip was raised slightly to one side, checked underneath and someone never soldered it! So I soldered a couple legs for practice, expecting nothing (super sloppy)... And the bloody thing has signs of life! It's struggling to boot and I can make out writing in the background. There's a million to one chance this could be revived!
Also resoldered some legs on a jackal board, and now it's gone from 100% dead to booting too. Tells me one of the roms is bad.
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Thought this was nuked when I first tested it. Turns out after the ram/rom check, you have to press button 1 and 2 simultaneously to start, phew!
Imagine if the metal slug team made a final fight game, and that's undercover cops. Great beat-em up, full of the zany detail youd expect from that team. Great bosses too, first boss you fight with a trash compactor operating in the background, so if you can feck him into it, its an instant kill. But he can do it to you too!
Nods to other irem games like rtype, such a small tv playing it in the playfield. Cn maybe make it out in a picture I took (but its running off the tv, so not as clear as a cabinet monitor).
Couple more pcbs to find and im done, getting close
And a special award for anyone who can figure out whats being said when the game starts..."here she comes!" Hershey Cops!"....???? :P0 -
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Gawwwdddamn!! I spent the last hour messing with a broken rtype bootleg, turn it on 20 times to garbled graphics, then 1 time it plays fine. Adjust the power up, then down, then a little more up, then down...driving me round the bend!
Took it all apart, cleaned it, noticed two legs on a chip that looked brownish, not terrible. Soldered one of the legs as a shot in the dark. Now it works everytime, over the moon That's the first board I can say I actually "fixed", even though it was a bit of blind luck. I was gonna stick it up for sale as nuked, but Ive decided against it. I'll hold onto it as a trophy instead 
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I love Undercover Cops! Fantastic game. Did you pick that up in Ireland??
Between that, In The Hunt, Gunforce 2 and the Metal Slug games, some of those Irem/Nazca assets really saw a lot of use!
Unfortunately not, I suppose you cant rely on finding everything in your back yard
I like those irem games (and the various teams involved), pumped out more than a few classics between them. Last thing I read about them was that they were back to pachinko machines, blergh!0 -
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Unfortunately not, I suppose you cant rely on finding everything in your back yard
I like those irem games (and the various teams involved), pumped out more than a few classics between them. Last thing I read about them was that they were back to pachinko machines, blergh!
Yeah they've a fantastic aesthetic! I've had Gunforce 2 on my radar for years and years in particular, really hard to come by unfortunately. Only ever saw a few conversions come up on eBay.
I actually almost bought a Metal Slug pachinko machine a few years ago
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Yeah they've a fantastic aesthetic! I've had Gunforce 2 on my radar for years and years in particular, really hard to come by unfortunately. Only ever saw a few conversions come up on eBay.
I actually almost bought a Metal Slug pachinko machine a few years ago
Geostorm looks the business alright Not so sure about a pachinko machine, unless its in a yakuza game! 0 -
Classic arcade beat-em up, Vendetta. Small enough pcb. Have a bunch of the 3/4 player arcade games, really need to get my hands on a konami 4 player cabinet.
To think I had both a simpsons and turtles cabinet parked outside the house, for 50 quid each, and it all went arseways...that's going to annoy me for at least another decade!!!! :P
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Haven't posted anything here in a while. Recently bought the Analogue Mega SG.
Was stunned at how fast it arrived at my door. Ordered it last Friday, and it arrived on Tuesday (well, it technically arrived on Monday, but I wasn't home when the postie got to my door)
I had the option to get this, or wait for the Mega Drive Mini.
I came to the conclusion that I'm nearly done with Emulation machines
I say "nearly" because I actually still enjoy my SNES/NES Mini, but I do intend on getting the Super Nt down the line.
My console collection is getting ridiculous at this stage lol I'm running out of room.0 -
Sorry for the double post
The Disney games aren't in the greatest of condition (have new replacement boxes on the way) but for the price I paid I won't complain.
Aladdin: €12
Lion King, World of Illusion & Castle of Illusion: €14 each
NHL Bundle: €34 (incl p&p)
James Pond: €30 (incl p&p)
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First get in a long time!
I've always wanted a lynx since I seen it in a gaming magazine back in the day .. thankfully my parents where in the know and got me a Game Gear instead but I've went all those years wondering what I've missed out on.
I've been scouring eBay and the likes for months waiting for a good one to pop up, but prices have gone mad. I took a gamble on this one, it's very clean but doesn't power on. Should just be the old voltage regulatar or transistors, I've ordered them up along with caps so we'll see!
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The lynx! I remember an old newsagents near me had one at the time. It was set up like an arcade machine, cost 10p 20p for a few minutes playtime, like a megatech or playchoice cabinet.
Wonder was that a diy job for the lynx, and far from "official" ?! Never saw anything else like it anywhere.
Love oddball things like that0
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