Taito G-NET Compact Flash Mod The Taito G-NET uses a PCMCIA slot for game cards. With the use of the Taito G-NET MODBIOS you can use a Compact Flash to PCMCIA adapter to play games written to a compact flash card (1 game per card). Other instructions may refer to Read more…
Viper Phase 1 Update / Region Fix I picked up an original Viper Phase 1 Taiwan region PCB and wanted to update it to the “New Version” also known as “USA”. The new version is regarded as the better version since there were some game play changes to make the Read more…
3D Printing PCB Prototypes Most of the PCBs I have been designing are add-ons for existing boards. This requires precise measurements to ensure components and mounting holes are in exact locations. This is the method I have come up with for creating prototype PCBs to ensure fit and compatibility. This Read more…
Galaga ’88 Rom No.5 Error I picked up Namco System 1 Galaga ’88 from eBay. The game booted, but the screen was flipped in the wrong orientation. The service menu (self-test) offers a setting to flip the screen orientation. To enter sel-test flip dip 1 to the on position (you Read more…
Sega ST-V Audio Repair I was sent a Sega STV board to do some custom wiring on. After some testing I was getting mixed results with the audio output. The board sounded good from the JAMMA edge, but when connecting to CN24 for line level audio via the STV IO Read more…
Sega ST-V Stereo Audio + CPS2 Kick This is a project overview of how the Everten ST-V Stereo Audio + Kick PCB came to be. Below is the process I went through to eventually arrive at my first (and second) ever PCB design. Rough Cut The Sega ST-V outputs mono Read more…
Repainting a Neo Geo Cabinet I picked up a Neo Geo 4 slot cabinet (MVS25-4) from the New England Arcade Collectors Forum in June of 2014. The board was working, had good picture, but the side panels were painted over. The black paint was peeling like crazy because whoever painted Read more…
Vectorizing Neo Geo Mini Marquees Neo Geo MVS games came with mini marquees to display what cartridges were in the arcade cabinet. These are approximately 5.5″ x 4.5″ prints on a paper that is designed to be back lit. If you’re lucky the seller might include an original mini marquee Read more…
Measuring, cutting, and more measuring Log of work completed 6/30/2013 – 11-10-2013 The next phase was probably the most complicated and time consuming. We had the basic cabinet framework in place, but still needed to build out the control panel, monitor mount with bezel, and speaker grill. Most of the Read more…
In the garage… Log of work completed 3/2/2013 – 6/30/2013 At this point we have all of the measurements and are ready to start turning this into actual panels. I used Adobe Illustrator to draw each cabinet panel, utilizing plywood as best we could. The main build of the cabinets Read more…