Arcade Casualties - the hobby where everything breaks

Post by **thomj** » February 9th, 2012, 10:19 pm

Just had a pcb back from the repairerers o/

There's rainbows after the rain sometimes

Post by **mufunyo** » February 9th, 2012, 11:55 pm

Hewitson wrote:I'm guessing these boards are not available as spare parts? Could someone please post a picture of one?

I thought you had a faulty motherboard? Why do you need a picture of one?

In any case:

(click to zoom)

Hewitson · Post by **Hewitson** » February 9th, 2012, 11:58 pm

Wasn't me with the faulty board... Thanks for the pics, but I am after a close up shot of the I/O card. If we could manage to make some sort of replacement we could build these machines dirt cheap.

Post by **mufunyo** » February 10th, 2012, 12:00 am

Hewitson wrote:If we could manage to make some sort of replacement we could build these machines dirt cheap.

Hewitson · Post by **Hewitson** » February 18th, 2012, 12:25 pm

I've wanted Blazing Star for years. Finally managed to pick up a copy for a very good price and it arrived and I very excitedly slipped it straight into my 4 slot. The heap of **** is stuck on the **** green screen!

****!!!!

Post by **thomj** » February 18th, 2012, 6:02 pm

clean contacts, check voltages

Hewitson · Post by **Hewitson** » February 22nd, 2012, 2:03 pm

Couldn't be bothered doing anything to it for the last few days... Decided to flip all the DIP's to see if work ram test worked and it did, then I flicked them all off again and the machine worked perfectly.

Braintrash · Post by **Braintrash** » February 4th, 2013, 5:49 pm

Hewitson wrote:I am after a close up shot of the I/O card.

Speaking of casualties, I was wondering about the Micro-ATX format. Has anyone ever changed the motherboard? The Type X mobo is 24,5x22,1cm (just measuring the green board itself) while the Micro-ATX format is given to be 24,5x24,5cm, and the Type X case seems to only be able to contain 24,5x23cm motherboard.

Post by **cools** » February 4th, 2013, 5:51 pm

There are various sizes of MicroATX boards - the crucial part is the width (24.5), rather than the depth (23)

Braintrash · Post by **Braintrash** » February 4th, 2013, 6:05 pm

Well, I wanna replace the mobo with a current-gen one, but nowhere can I check the actual size of the motherboards, even on the manufacturers sites. Damnit!

Post by **cools** » February 4th, 2013, 6:07 pm

Just look at them - if they're square then they're 24.5cm, if they're not then they're shorter

Braintrash · Post by **Braintrash** » February 4th, 2013, 8:30 pm

Yeah, would they put on scale pictures of their products...

ANyway, I traced three of them, so now looking for a decent GFX card.

Post by **wonderbanana** » February 4th, 2013, 8:59 pm

skykid wrote: Welcome to my world. I take stuff out of the cupboard where it's been sitting at a comfortable temperature in anti static bag in a roomy box, stick it on and it's suddenly ****.

Had my first experience of that recently with a Bubble Bobble II cart. I mean its a cart FFS! And that was after I'd agreed to sell it

skykid wrote:Either that or I tinker with something and **** it up myself.

This is why I'm never loaning you a screwdriver again

Post by **monouchi** » February 5th, 2013, 7:20 am

...changing battery on CPS3 with game on...everything going

, just the last finishing touch of solder to one of the new battery pins....and the game freezes....and is dead.

Post by **AeroCityMayor** » February 5th, 2013, 10:21 am

OUCH!

Post by **geotrig** » February 5th, 2013, 10:26 am

stuff like that makes me wanna leave mine

Post by **idc** » February 6th, 2013, 12:57 am

monouchi wrote:...changing battery on CPS3 with game on...everything going , just the last finishing touch of solder to one of the new battery pins....and the game freezes....and is dead.

Seen this happen once myself. Sucks major balls.

Fortunately I did my 3rd Strike a few days back and it survived.

Post by **AeroCityMayor** » February 6th, 2013, 10:28 am

idc wrote:
Fortunately I did my 3rd Strike a few days back and it survived.

Great to see you back in the saddle again d00d

Cheers,

Ralph.

Post by **meijin** » February 6th, 2013, 11:36 am

monouchi wrote:...changing battery on CPS3 with game on...everything going , just the last finishing touch of solder to one of the new battery pins....and the game freezes....and is dead.

This is always sad

RIP unknown CPS3 game

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