Recent content by jowstni

Huge thanks to @Darksoft for not only providing me with a cps1 c-board, but also reaching out in the first place by helping me troubleshoot my Mercs board. Very trustworthy and knowledgeable. I'm sure I'll be in contact again to bring some other arcade stuff back to life. :thumbsup:

Huge thanks to @ack ! Not only did they make a beautiful CPS1 openkey that arrived quickly, but they very kindly tested stuff on their end to help me understand what c-board I would need in conjunction with the openkey to make Mercs work again. Amazing work and amazing help. Thanks again...

Oh that looks quite cool--creative solution 8) Thanks for the replies, everyone. I'll just solder the white connector block back on and try soldering the wires to the provided pins, even though they're intended for metal rails. I think I'll end up getting a Meanwell or an ATX, though...

Little update: I desoldered the white terminal block from the PCB and found that the through holes on the PCB are way too small to fit an 18 gauge wire through, much less two twisted together. Does anyone have experience or ideas about soldering on a different terminal block to fit 18 AWG wire...

Hi everyone, I'd like to check with more knowledgeable people here about my plan to use my Dreamcast PSU for my Naomi so I don't blow anything up. The Naomi won't be in a JAMMA cab or be using any I/O board that passes along power, so the Dreamcast PSU will be purely powering the Naomi directly...

Just had a big realization. The Ghouls n Ghosts conversion board I have appears to be using a B-21 chip c-board with the battery removed. Does anyone know if I could reprogram the C632 or IOC1 chip so that it's compatible with Mercs? edit: I programmed a new GAL using the file for C628 on the...

Thanks, Big_P. I might as well check into it again. I will say, though, that I've use the Mercs board on 3 different PSUs (Astro city original, some junky cheap thing in the Mercs cab, and a new meanwell). It has the same bars. I also have a Ghouls n Ghosts conversion which works perfectly on...

Thanks for the extra tips, @twistedsymphony and I super appreciate your offer to help out @DelsArcade I know CPS stuff is rare as heck so I will proceed very carefully lol

Thanks, twistedsymphony. I'll check it over again. If I have to reflow all the pins on that big chip, I'm definitely going to practice on some other spare/dead parts first. I only have the one C-Board.

Got a programmer and some GAL16V8B roms. Flashed the data file (for location 1A) from the PLD archive linked above, replaced the rom at 1A, and... The exact same lines still appear. :( But the new rom and data seemed to work, at least. I saw there's the same type of rom at location 11E, so I...

Awesome, thanks for the confirmation :)

Thanks so much, @twistedsymphony and @Darksoft :thumbsup: I have very good leads now. Hopefully this GQ-4x4 can program a GAL16V8. If not I'll get something that can.

1A PAL Chip: First Line: AMD symbol and then PALCE16V8H-15PC Second Line: 948B04J Third Line (faded): 02248 or 02246 B Board Sticker: B28142

Just found that out myself lol. Yeah, both games just produced garbled graphics. Checking the mame source code I see "bboardplds" data, and "o224b.1a" for the 2 versions of US Mercs. Would I just find replacements chips (ebay?), and then burn the data from both versions to the chips? And then...

Ah, ok, I understand. Thanks for the clarification. Maybe it would be compatible with Ghouls n Ghosts--I'll check into that.