richtr8
Beginner
hello, i am richter from melbourne, australia. i do my best to collect & maintain what little arcade & retro game hardware has had the misfortune of winding up on this island.
at the moment i own a CPS2, ST-V, MV1F, & a few other assorted PCBs. i use a blast city, smallcab, PVM-20L5 & a PVM-2730QM to play them. i joined this forum because i'm looking to buy a CPS2 multi-board somewhere down the track.
projects i've done include building a JAMMA rig from a loom, power supply & relevant terminals, wiring up a NESRGB, SNES mini RGB mod, etc. i mostly leave the difficult stuff to my friend juci, who is a soldering legend & fellow candy cab/pvm/retro console owner. his limited range of 'field experience' restricts his arcade PCB collection to just neo geo so far, but i've seen him get quite a boner for dimahoo & other flashy CPS2 games, which he claims are 'too hard' for him. maybe after i push him to 1cc a slug with me he'll open up...
at the moment he's working on repairing 30 to 40 mvs carts which came into his possession from a previous mvs collector who lost his low boy (with last resort) to a fire. the carts were kept in storage & have quite a bit of oxidisation, but he's been tinning pins & patching broken traces tirelessly since they came into his collection. at the moment about 5 carts have been restored completely from blackscreen, while others have had chips replaced for garbled graphics, sound, etc.
i believe this website to be the forerunner in preserving arcade & retro game hardware by non-archival means. this is very important to me, because for some reason, video games & anime trigger some sort of infantile psychosis in me. i only ever play 2 or 3 games at any one time because i try to achieve the best score i can get, or something i can derive a similar sense of achievement from. this usually results in me progressing very slowly while trying to memorise how to get the 1cc & involves resetting a lot, but the satisfaction i get out of clearing a game is immense. while i'm not playing a game, i find that spending a lot of maintenance & research time with games helps me learn. i'm not sure which drives me more insane, playing or repairing a game...
anyway, i'm sure i don't have to explain this to everybody here, otherwise this place wouldn't exist! even in video game discussion spheres, preserving arcade/retro hardware is a scarcely seen form of autism, but not here!!
let's protect the traditions & principles of arcade video games through hardware projects!!
at the moment i own a CPS2, ST-V, MV1F, & a few other assorted PCBs. i use a blast city, smallcab, PVM-20L5 & a PVM-2730QM to play them. i joined this forum because i'm looking to buy a CPS2 multi-board somewhere down the track.
projects i've done include building a JAMMA rig from a loom, power supply & relevant terminals, wiring up a NESRGB, SNES mini RGB mod, etc. i mostly leave the difficult stuff to my friend juci, who is a soldering legend & fellow candy cab/pvm/retro console owner. his limited range of 'field experience' restricts his arcade PCB collection to just neo geo so far, but i've seen him get quite a boner for dimahoo & other flashy CPS2 games, which he claims are 'too hard' for him. maybe after i push him to 1cc a slug with me he'll open up...
at the moment he's working on repairing 30 to 40 mvs carts which came into his possession from a previous mvs collector who lost his low boy (with last resort) to a fire. the carts were kept in storage & have quite a bit of oxidisation, but he's been tinning pins & patching broken traces tirelessly since they came into his collection. at the moment about 5 carts have been restored completely from blackscreen, while others have had chips replaced for garbled graphics, sound, etc.
i believe this website to be the forerunner in preserving arcade & retro game hardware by non-archival means. this is very important to me, because for some reason, video games & anime trigger some sort of infantile psychosis in me. i only ever play 2 or 3 games at any one time because i try to achieve the best score i can get, or something i can derive a similar sense of achievement from. this usually results in me progressing very slowly while trying to memorise how to get the 1cc & involves resetting a lot, but the satisfaction i get out of clearing a game is immense. while i'm not playing a game, i find that spending a lot of maintenance & research time with games helps me learn. i'm not sure which drives me more insane, playing or repairing a game...
anyway, i'm sure i don't have to explain this to everybody here, otherwise this place wouldn't exist! even in video game discussion spheres, preserving arcade/retro hardware is a scarcely seen form of autism, but not here!!
let's protect the traditions & principles of arcade video games through hardware projects!!
