Recent content by xnz136

The II' Turbo is the good one, II' is the bad one. I'd already gone ahead and swapped the C-boards, and Turbo's C-board made the CE board work properly. I tried swapping just the PAL chips into the faulty C-board and observed no change. Reflowed the CPS-B-21 chip and the LSs while I was at it on...

Reflowing connectors made no change. Looks like I have a compatible C-board from a working game, will swap that in and see if it fixes the issue. If it does fix the problem, I'll reflow the CPS-B-21 chip, and if that doesn't work... guess I'll either need to source a replacement B-21 chip or...

Would there be any harm in swapping in a compatible C-board from a working game (or swapping the SFIICE C-board onto a confirmed working B-board)?

Thanks, hopefully it'll be as simple as a reflow. Uploaded a video of the problem for reference. View: https://youtu.be/iOh7Up2oUPM

My SFII CE board worked a few years ago. Pulled it out the other night, and it seems to have developed a fault. Several of the graphics layers flicker on and off (the characters and the sky BG in the intro, title logo, character portraits on the select screen) and the game reboots when trying to...

Received a tested/working X-MEN COTA B-board from Japan, which arrived not working. All it gives is the typical "dead battery" turquoise screen. Opened it up, found the battery was replaced with a Cpics2, which is apparently a revival/battery replacement addition. There were some dodgy solder...

Nice. Not sure if you regularly run the board at the voltage shown in the photo, but just a heads up that Primal Rage PCBs really need a steady 5V or a bit over in order to run properly.

Interesting thought on mounting it to acrylic - it's definitely a clunky board. I'll admit that I just drop mine in my wooden PCB box/cradle when I put it in a cab.

Going to replace the old CRT socket in my arcade monitor with a new one, because the old one would make poor contact with the pins, resulting in a monitor that would either fire up right away without issue, take 5 minutes to warm up, or just not fire up at all. Before I proceed to solder the...

Been working on my small handful of cabs lately, so figured I'd sign up!