Recent content by SpudJones

@chadzero5 yeah, nice site. p.s. there's also a Super Potato in Nagoya.

Take it easy mate.

1. SpudJones 2. Brisbane, QLD 3. Some board repairs but moreso the older stuff with DIPs rather than surface mount PCBS. 4. Not looking for anything right at the moment.

If they have the original flat black disc for the volume pot still installed, you probably want to replace it.

Perhaps its worth mentioning that there are different revisions of the IGS PGM board and you may get different results when trying to save battery backed settings for some carts.

I have two different revisions of IGS PGM board - they both have had the original battery removed and CR2032 holder installed. One (I think maybe later version) saves NVRAM settings ok, but the other one doesn't (which seems to be the revision of board that has the features in this mod...

Lol. XXXX is brewed here and its definitely more common. Never seen that ad before though - must be made for the international market.

They don't seem to even sell Foster's (at least in Queensland). The only time I've ever had Foster's was on an international flight. :D Will do. When I can tetris a few things around enough to get in there with my camera I'll definitely post some pics.

Sapporo is a good one but what I drink varies on what my local shop has on sale that week. Last week it was Carlsberg. This week it's Kirin. I like beer. And videogames. Beer and videogames.

Hi, Long time arcade collector here. I've always enjoyed hardware hacks such as replacing numerous roms on classic games with a single rom, or getting multiple games to work on similar hardware. I reprogrammed a PAL once to emulate a PROM so I could get a sound board working in a Star Trek...