Category: Repair
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Nintendo Donkey Kong arcade PCB
Status: Successfully repaired on 9/28/2020 A Nintendo Donkey Kong board came in for both a capacitor replacement and repair. The board had an issue where everything displayed in blue. Fortunately Donkey Kong is an early board and is well documented. A little Googleing turned up a thorough list of possible culprits.https://www.brasington.org/arcade/tech/dk/ This blog pointed me…
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Capcom CPS3 arcade PCB #2
Status: Successfully repaired on 2/21/2022 In for repair was a Capcom CPS3 board with a fussy security cart slot – it was difficult to get the board to boot and even when it did, the game would crash randomly. Fortunately the security card slot is identical to the PCI slot on a PC motherboard, so…
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Sammy Seta Visco SSV Multi arcade PCB
Status: Successfully repaired on 7/16/2022 I purchased this SSV 4-in-1 Multi ROM board for the shmups on it – Change Air Blade, Vasara, Vasara 2 and Ultra X Weapons. They are available from AliExpress (China). Unfortunately the board arrived with poor solder joints which caused glitches in the background tiles. Repairing the board was as…
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Namco NB-2 Outfoxies arcade PCB #1
Status: Paused as of 2/22/2022 but I’ll get back to it eventually. The ROM board suffers from several rotted traces and will need a bunch of patch wires. In for repair is a Namco Outfoxies PCB, running on Namco’s NB-2 platform. NB-2 has a large mainboard and a ROM daughterboard. The ROMs on the daughterboard…
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Capcom CPS3 arcade PCB #1
Status: Repaired successfully between February 13, 2021 and March 9, 2021. I purchased a Capcom CP3 arcade board untested at a discount from Yahoo Auctions Japan. Protip: Never buy untested electronics. When the board arrived, I attempted to boot it up, but received an “EPROM ERROR” message. Researching the board, it turns out that CPS3…
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Sega System 18 arcade PCB
Status: Returned to owner still malfunctioning on 3/24/2023. Diagnostics started on 12/19/2022 In for repair is a Sega System 18 board, home to a handful of Sega classics such as Shadow Dancer, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker and Alien Storm. System 18 is a enhanced version of the System 16 board, but while System 16 has schematics…
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Namco NB-2 Outfoxies arcade PCB #2
Status: Successfully Repaired on 4/16/2022 In for repair was a Namco Outfoxies arcade board. The game booted up and played fine with one player, but in two player mode Left, Down, and Button 1 wouldn’t work for Player 2. Tracing the Player 2 control signals from the JAMMA connector, I discovered that they stopped almost…
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Taito G-Net arcade PCB
Status: Successfully Repaired on 1/31/2022 I’ve had a Taito G-Net board sitting in the repair queue for a few months, and I finally tackled it this weekend. This board had an issue where Coin 1 was shorting to Ground, causing games to constantly reboot with a Coin Error message. Enabling DIP Switch 4 lets you…
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Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade PCB
Status: Repaired successfully on 6/16/2022 In for repair was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board. The owner reported that the game would boot up and run, but the background would turn blue after a while. For me, it wouldn’t start up past the Self Check, but it did have a blue background. The Self Check…
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Irem M92 arcade PCB
Status: Diagnosed from 11/28/2022 – 12/7/2022. Successfully repaired with new Nanao custom on 9/10/2023. I got a good deal on a Gun Hohki Irem M92 PCB because it booted up with errors. On M92, the main CPU, graphics rendering hardware, sound synth, sound amp, system RAM are all on the top board. The bottom board…