I joined the forum not too long ago and I wanted to share my experience of getting a CPS2 Multi and installing over the last day or so.
I got one of the recent shipments of the CPS2 Multi last Friday and went through various stages of reading the support threads here until I was up and running. The main issue I had was definitely down to the A and B board connection, which caused me to check everything else several times too. In my case I had removed the outer case to get a better connection but in fact I had over pressed it down. I was having the roms flash perfectly, but no reset - just the solid colors, either red or white. I checked and double checked that I had the Darksoft boards fitted correctly, in the right orientation and that all pins were making contact and I re-checked my soldering for the 4 key writing connections too. I must have been trying the connections for almost two hours to no result. Finally I just unseated the B board fully and then let gravity allow it to sit back down. I rebooted and to my absolute joy, the Progear screen was up!
I will likely buy another phoenix board at some point so that I'm able to mount the PCBS as I'd normally do, but for now I simply slid it back into the cabinet very carefully and I've left it as is. I have a longer LCD cable being shipped so once I run that out of the rear of the cabinet I'll not need to touch the board area at all.
For additional clarity on my set up, I'm using this memory card:
32GB Samsung MicroSD HC MicroSDHC Class 10 Memory Card 32G http://a.co/iklpbwz
I formatted it to FAT32 in the terminal on a Windows 10 laptop and I used 7-Zip to decompress the most recent NEW roll up pack from Smokemonster, directly to the card, creating the necessary 'games' folder and its contents.
I'm so grateful for the device itself, but I'm equally grateful for the way support is shared here and kept up to date, I found everything I needed. My soldering skills are ok, nothing special but I took my time and everything has worked just fine. I would like to offer local help to anyone in the SF bay area who may need it. I have spare working B boards that really helped me to rule out issues with my A board, they also helped me to get my A and B boards connected just right. Patience really was its own reward.
Pictures attached - again I cannot thank the kind and knowledgable persons of this forum enough and to the architects of the Multi itself, your skills are immense and I'm so grateful! My Capcom Impress is complete thanks to you. Final thanks to Paradise Arcade - my kit was beautifully packaged and labelled inside to prompt me to be careful when opening.
I got one of the recent shipments of the CPS2 Multi last Friday and went through various stages of reading the support threads here until I was up and running. The main issue I had was definitely down to the A and B board connection, which caused me to check everything else several times too. In my case I had removed the outer case to get a better connection but in fact I had over pressed it down. I was having the roms flash perfectly, but no reset - just the solid colors, either red or white. I checked and double checked that I had the Darksoft boards fitted correctly, in the right orientation and that all pins were making contact and I re-checked my soldering for the 4 key writing connections too. I must have been trying the connections for almost two hours to no result. Finally I just unseated the B board fully and then let gravity allow it to sit back down. I rebooted and to my absolute joy, the Progear screen was up!
I will likely buy another phoenix board at some point so that I'm able to mount the PCBS as I'd normally do, but for now I simply slid it back into the cabinet very carefully and I've left it as is. I have a longer LCD cable being shipped so once I run that out of the rear of the cabinet I'll not need to touch the board area at all.
For additional clarity on my set up, I'm using this memory card:
32GB Samsung MicroSD HC MicroSDHC Class 10 Memory Card 32G http://a.co/iklpbwz
I formatted it to FAT32 in the terminal on a Windows 10 laptop and I used 7-Zip to decompress the most recent NEW roll up pack from Smokemonster, directly to the card, creating the necessary 'games' folder and its contents.
I'm so grateful for the device itself, but I'm equally grateful for the way support is shared here and kept up to date, I found everything I needed. My soldering skills are ok, nothing special but I took my time and everything has worked just fine. I would like to offer local help to anyone in the SF bay area who may need it. I have spare working B boards that really helped me to rule out issues with my A board, they also helped me to get my A and B boards connected just right. Patience really was its own reward.
Pictures attached - again I cannot thank the kind and knowledgable persons of this forum enough and to the architects of the Multi itself, your skills are immense and I'm so grateful! My Capcom Impress is complete thanks to you. Final thanks to Paradise Arcade - my kit was beautifully packaged and labelled inside to prompt me to be careful when opening.