Maybe just one side of the harness has -5v populated and you can add another or use larger wire. Could be a limitation of the PSU supply current as well.
Here’s a vid of Scotty from Hawkeye but he retired many years ago, I believe he donated all of his equipment to the early television museum in Ohio but I’m not sure if they ever got into rebuilding them.
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I may have another Gundam stick. I’m located in the Los Angeles area near LAX.
I should be able to take a look tomorrow and will send you a PM to see if you’re interested.
I’m not 100% certain but I think a Sega Genesis controller may work so you’d be able to rule out it’s not an issue with the Vectrex controller itself. I had to peel back the decal on both of mine and fiddle with the analog sticks to get them 100%, pretty sure I needed some new springs and used...
I recapped mine about 5 years back and didn’t have any issues.
There may not be any through hole plating so it relies on the actual component legs to complete the circuit between each side of the pcb, I would just test continuity after each cap by testing to the next component on the trace since...
I have a NetBoot setup
I upgraded the 3.3v regulator in the Capcom IO so I power it through that off of Jamma.
I’ve had zero issues although it was kinda hacky shoehorning the new regulator in(totally different package).
Not sure if it’s the same one as this but it’s the same package and made...
I’m still interested regardless of NOS or repro, @alberto1225 made me an awesome panel for my Super Neo 29 cab.
My Gundam sticks have a white restrictor disc but it’s 40mm so I’d love to have one(or two) that’s the correct size.
I’ve done it, just requires the removal of a jumper and populating the (3) missing capacitors.
See post #18 in this thread.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/r-type-sound-in-non-nintendo-cab.216900/