Today I worked on lots o’ cabs! (The CRT porn thread)

[BuddyC]

Dr. Mario

Nintendo cabs are easy to adjust Love them little bastards!
Happy game #3!

Adjusting with a mirror from the back actually works great with these cabs. Just place the mirror on top of the CP

 

[kikaso]

Love to see these tubes getting some love

 

[BuddyC]

Time for a update!
The Sanwa + Shanghai Novel combo have been giving me lots of headaches... The Naomi Universals that I thought where done, started having major issues , sooooo... It was time to do a full recap. Have you ever recapped a Sanwa 29E31S? it sucks and there is like a million caps...
Even tried to rejuvenate some tubes just for the hell of it, but it did not fix the problem. Jambo Safari had a fucked flyback, but luckily we found this guy in spain (technoservice) who makes a quality flyback that actually works with this chassis. Fingers crossed the Naomi lineup will look gorgeous soon.

I had some successful calibrations though...

Rampage

Cool classic with a nice wells gardner k7000 chassis.
Not to bad... Lets make it sexy!

Before

 

[BuddyC]

And after. Happy game!

 

[BuddyC]

Next up was this lovely looking Pacman
Looking good!!!

The Red gain pot was fucked, but fixed with a quick reflow and general TLC to the chassis. I think the results where pretty good
Happy game!

 

[BuddyC]

There is still some work to be done and more cabs will be added soon, but got this lovely footage to celebrate that Oslo is finally opening up after along lockdown. Tilt is finally open! It was a great night!
PS. I’m playing Jambo Safari. Can you spot me?

https://fb.watch/6wDri1JLHr/

 

[BuddyC]

Been a while since my calibration services was needed, but looks like it will be a great spring with lots of fun stuff to work on = some nerdy updates!

Today I had a date with Dance Dance Revolution

Everything was working ok, but the monitor had some quirks to deal with.
The original Nanao tube had been replaced with a Wells Gardner 9400.
The 9400 has a OSD with a remote to calibrate most settings, but H. Size did not fill entire screen + the focus setting with the remote didn’t do shit. Time to open this big bastard up and see whats inside.

After removing some screws, I had some access to the chassis… Kind of snug, but doable.

After a quick look at the 9400 I found the awesomely place H size pot on this chassis.

Ok…. A little scary to adjust while it was turned on, but no issue to adjust while off. Cranked it to the max and had lots of room to adjust with the remote. The focus pot got some love and everything is looking snazzy!

Happy game!

 

[BuddyC]

Next up was the tube for a fully restored Donkey Kong cab. Chassis had been recaped, but everything was way off.

Let’s make it sexy!

Colors where way off, screen way to high, focus bad and I needed to adjust the convergence rings to make sure everything looks gorgeous and eye-bleeding-sharp
Long story short. Everything looks great!

Happy game!

 

[BuddyC]

Today I had the privilege to work on this lovely beast!
F-zero AX… Such a fucking great game and a fantastic experience with the roller coaster-like motion in the seat. I felt like a kid again

All and all in great condition straight from Japan.
Has a nice Toshiba tri-sync monitor and PB9929 chassis

A little dusty and could use a full recap after nearly 20 years of service, but produced a ok picture.
Will need to use one of my own Tosh-remotes to adjust some geometry issues and adjust the colors a bit, but all in all ok image quality After some minor adjustments to the focus and color settings. More updates soon!

 

[ChrisBEANS]

Great thread. The improvement on that Pac-Man was incredible!

 

[Sir_Kit Jumper]

BuddyC is doing the lord's work for sure, every time you resurrect a CRT, an evil LCD is denied entry through the pearly gates of the arcade!

 

[BuddyC]

Also on today’s menu was this lovely Radar Scope.

I am really starting to love the fantastic Sanyo 20ez! 40 years old and still looks stunning after a recap and some minor adjustments.
Just a smidge on the convergence rings, minor color adjustments and some love to the flyback generated a lovely image!

Really digging the blue to black gradient not viewable (as far as I know…) in MAME.
Since it was one of Mr. Miyamoto first projects, it makes it extra special for a Nintendo fanboy like me.

 

[BuddyC]

Today I had a date with this big bastard!

All in all in excellent condition, but looked like one of the screens had been knocked out of position during shipping so it was a little off.

See the credit(s) at the bottom? No bueno!

Could not find any service manual online, but found out that I could adjust the left monitor a little by loosing these screws

After a little cursing and really minor adjustments, both screens started to align.
Looks pretty decent if you ask me!
Happy game!

 

[Mrhide]

God damn you have a sucky job!

 

[BuddyC]

Today I had 4x Mario Kart GP2 on the menu.
All of them was supposedly fully serviced and adjusted before shipping.….
Probably by an idiot.

The first one looked clean and in good condition.

I always open cabs up to check that everything is connected and looking ok before I fire them up. Removed the back to access the monitor and was greeted by this fucking mess….

What the fuck happened to this tube!?!?!

Chassis looked not to bad, so I tried to remove the worst of it, but most of the grime and dirt was stuck like glue…. Yum!

Tube works, but lost signal after around 5 minutes. Almost like it could not sync.
Also.. Everything looked like crap.
This will be a lot of work before I can eventually start my calibrations.

To be continued…..

 

[BuddyC]

Number 2 looked much better!

Not the hottest looking picture, but chassis and image was stable and not a lot of work.

Before:

After adjusting the convergence rings, messing with the flyback and using the extended remote to adjust the color bias and gain I got a pretty good result.

Needs a new left speaker, but other than that, 100% operational and looking snazzy!

 

[BuddyC]

Number 3 was…. Just to dark… Really? Chassis and tube looked super clean.. Last revision Toshiba PF D29c451 with a clean matsushita tube.

Yup! Just to dark. Gave it a little boost with the flyback and some minor color adjustments… 5 minutes later and bam! Smooth sailing!

Kind of shit pictures, but I got a sharp and colorful image. Happy game!

 

[BuddyC]

Last MK for today looked ok. Some minor convergence and geometry issues, but tube looked clean and base image was promising. Too much green. Needs more red.

All the classic adjustments, geometry fixing, and lots of color correction produced a fucking fantastic image! Nice and bright, pinpoint sharp and gorgeous colors. God I do love Toshiba tri-sync tubes!

 

[BuddyC]

3 down, one to go!
Soon everyone will be able to play the best Mario Kart you never played at Tilt, Oslo.
Awesome shit!

 

[Kagaden]

You're literally a CRT miracle maker~