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This solution should work (I've done it before) But it's not for the faint of heart. You'll need to remove the spindle magnet from the lid of the Sega CD 2. PS1 uses 3 ball bearings to hold the CD; not the magnet friction ring from above. Your biggest challenges would be: - getting the old...

As Vortex mentioned back in 2023, he suggests that the chips run closer to 3.3V than the 3V they run now. I replaced both power circuits with my own custom design as well as replaced all the caps on the 2 PCBs and added more caps around the FPGAs and some of the flash memory to reduce ripple...

FWIW, CAVE getting special treatment is not unique. Ask any Neo Geo multi maker on adding support for NG DEV game and see what happens. It is what it is ..

Well this is a first in 2 years .. I finally caught up with my backlog! 4 more donor carts came in today, and the waitlist is clear. If you're interested in a Neo Geo all-in-1 MVS cart; now will be a good time. Shipping worldwide. DM me if interested.

I tried to backport this fix into a MAME rev I'm running from last summer when I upgraded my MAME computer from 2010 (easier to fix MAME than try to update the ROMs on my custom build) Unfortunately, my build VM is still on Windows 7 (I do most dev in Linux) The issue is that when you call...

Yeah. This is bad for our small hobby. HDRetrovision says he'll tell the supplier to dump the next order in the ocean (I hope this is a joke) and MakeMHZ (XBOX HDMI) posted that next order is on hold. This is horrible. :(

What's going to happen with the 105% tariffs? Are these things still going to ship given the trade war in the USA?

That's awesome! People have been complaining about this bug for over a decade. Glad it's resolved.

As per the repo instructions, S1:7 is set to ON (default is OFF). You see the new boot menu for a second and then the game starts.

@neku I just want to say that what you've done here is unbelievable. I've owned a KI1/2 PCB for many years and it always pissed me off that MAME has always had a bug that intro audio never loaded. The "hack" was to change the volume and the intro music started working. If I use your BIOS in...

This is a tough one. I've fixed a few hundred of these for customers. Unfortunately, I'm now starting to see burned LED bulbs on the module (resulting in a dead line that can't be fixed) The only solution I've had was buy broken VirtualBoys on eBay and use their modules .. I've now done it a few...

These EFI components do fail eventually. For example, when I do RGB mod to Turbo Duo / PC Engine DUO, I always remove them for my customers. DUO-R/DUO-RX has them removed from the factory (they fail causing bad audio or bad sync). I've also seen them fail in some Sega Saturn consoles. That's...

Are you able to share the part number you used for the EFI (blue EM# components) The Sega Genesis I have has all black components, so I assumed you sourced new replacements? Also, did you install a new DC barrel jack or reuse from the Genesis?

WOW! That's a very good price for a Net Dimm!! I paid more for mine back in 2010!

BGA solder cracks were an issue when we switched to lead free solder. Sony PS2, XBOX 360, are consoles that used lead free solder in their construction. But Microsoft XBOX, Sega Dreamcast use leaded solder (and I believe Naomi as well) so solder ball cracks shouldn't be a thing. Is Naomi solder...