Recent content by HonchoC64

Hi there! With a bit of hope it's an easy fix, but hard to say without checking the board. Should be easy enough to establish if the 5V that powers the board gets through to the ICs themselves, that would be the first test. Basically establish if your board gets power, or if the fault is with...

Hi all, First post here. Long-time C64 guy who also repairs arcade PCBs, mostly mid-80s Capcom, and writes them up at HonchoC64.com. Two recent boards, both awkward in different ways. I put a brief version of this in my introduction thread, but think the details belong better here. Ghosts'n...

I added this to the story page as well in case others will find it useful. Never thought of it so a good call out :)

Hi, thanks for the kind words, glad you liked it. To be honest, the diagnostic ROM is dead simple assembly and probably not much use to anyone else. All it does is read and write the various addressable RAMs and ROMs, and on a failure it drops into a loop reading the same byte over and over...

Hi all, New here, so a quick introduction. I'm a passionate C64 retro dude, but I also repair arcade PCBs and write the results up at HonchoC64.com, mostly mid-80s Capcom hardware. I've just finished two boards that fought back in very different ways, and thought this crowd might get something...