Hello,
I've been lurking on this forum since the beginning and always meant to post something, will hopefully do a bit more now. I did have an old account but I've long lost it.
I'm on UKVac as 'lix' and had also been on Jamma+ as 'vxc', where I'de probably be known for my buggy Major Title 2 to R-Type Leo conversion (I did test it lots, honest!). The name lix comes from an old nick shortened from 'Sweetlicks', which is an old Namco whack-a-mole machine and my very first repair when I landed a job as an amusement arcade technician.
I do a lot of repairs and have quite a large collection of machines and boards now, including a few Sega model 2 twin racers, pinball machines and some old classics. Unfortunately I don't offer a repair service any more, I used to about 25 years ago where I recall a lot of my early repairs were CPS1 boards (still a common problem today, and inspiration for some of the projects I'm working on now). Repair logs are something I like to post though as I'de prefer to share the knowledge so that other people can repair their games too. I've been into arcade games since the early 90's, seen quite a lot but haven't really been involved in modern stuff like Sega Naomi onwards.
Have a lot of experience in commercial games production as I've been a software programmer on quite a few released games, and also as an embedded engineer working on designing and making PCBs and products such as robotics, musical instruments and games hardware.
Some of the projects I'm currently working on an FPGA based Jamma board, which I'm using to help develop another project being an FPGA based reproduction of the CPS1 A custom chip (which I need several of). And I have some long term ambitious projects of designing a bulletproof universal CRT monitor chassis PCB, and maybe something to do with Model 2 which I've been reverse engineering a little.
So I'll try to post about my projects, I can get a bit busy from time to time but I'll keep people posted
lix / Steve
I've been lurking on this forum since the beginning and always meant to post something, will hopefully do a bit more now. I did have an old account but I've long lost it.
I'm on UKVac as 'lix' and had also been on Jamma+ as 'vxc', where I'de probably be known for my buggy Major Title 2 to R-Type Leo conversion (I did test it lots, honest!). The name lix comes from an old nick shortened from 'Sweetlicks', which is an old Namco whack-a-mole machine and my very first repair when I landed a job as an amusement arcade technician.
I do a lot of repairs and have quite a large collection of machines and boards now, including a few Sega model 2 twin racers, pinball machines and some old classics. Unfortunately I don't offer a repair service any more, I used to about 25 years ago where I recall a lot of my early repairs were CPS1 boards (still a common problem today, and inspiration for some of the projects I'm working on now). Repair logs are something I like to post though as I'de prefer to share the knowledge so that other people can repair their games too. I've been into arcade games since the early 90's, seen quite a lot but haven't really been involved in modern stuff like Sega Naomi onwards.
Have a lot of experience in commercial games production as I've been a software programmer on quite a few released games, and also as an embedded engineer working on designing and making PCBs and products such as robotics, musical instruments and games hardware.
Some of the projects I'm currently working on an FPGA based Jamma board, which I'm using to help develop another project being an FPGA based reproduction of the CPS1 A custom chip (which I need several of). And I have some long term ambitious projects of designing a bulletproof universal CRT monitor chassis PCB, and maybe something to do with Model 2 which I've been reverse engineering a little.
So I'll try to post about my projects, I can get a bit busy from time to time but I'll keep people posted
lix / Steve