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Neo Geo 4 Slot EL Panel Replacement

September 6, 2020 roxbury One comment

A common failure for Neo Geo arcade cabinets is the EL panels that light up corresponding to the selected game. There are a few options out there to replace the panels . If you want the top of the line solution, there are things like a LED replacement kit http://www.neogeoledmarquee.info/,

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Outrun Restore Part 1 – Teardown

August 30, 2020 roxbury 2 comments

Time to start restoration of my upright Outrun cabinet! Outrun is such an iconic racer. The sounds, the colours, the speed, I am so excited to be on the way to having a working restored cabinet. This cabinet is complete but in poor condition. Very dirty on the inside, full

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LAI Space Invaders Restore Project Complete (Part 5)

May 10, 2020 roxbury 2 comments

I had a few tasks ahead to complete the restoration. The good news is everything went smoothly, with no sticking points. First up time to make a new cardboard bezel for the monitor. The old one is a bit scummy. I couldn’t find a piece of cardboard large enough at

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LAI Space Invaders Restore Monitor Replacement (Part 4)

April 26, 2020 roxbury Leave a comment

The early Space Invaders boardsets, including the Midway L shaped boards only output to a black and white monitor. The monitor that came with my cabinet is not working. I have not really done any troubleshooting for it, however the chassis was very dirty, and I decided my efforts would

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LAI Space Invaders New Side Art & Control Panel (Part 3)

January 12, 2020 roxbury 3 comments

Time to apply new side art, and new control panel overlay! We are fortunate to have Noodleshirt in Australia to supply our arcade artwork needs. I wanted to get the artwork colour as close as practical to the original, so sent off the remainder of the artwork I removed so

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LAI Space Invaders Restore – Teardown & Cabinet Repairs (Part 2)

August 3, 2019 roxbury Leave a comment

This post has been a long time coming. My progress stalled for over a year after our house was flood damaged. Time to get back into this project! Time to tear the cabinet down & make some repairs to the woodwork. It is in very poor shape. Taking everything out

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CPS2 InfiniKey decryption key injection

January 28, 2019 roxbury Leave a comment

Capcom CPS2 game boards contain a “suicide” battery which powers a circuit which contains a decryption table required for the game to run. If the battery runs out of charge, the decryption table is lost, and the game cannot be played. Previously, to keep games as original as possible every

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LAI Space Invaders Restore – Checking PCB & Monitor (Part 1)

December 3, 2017 roxbury Leave a comment

Its time now to start the restoration of my LAI Space Invaders upright. LAI (Leisure & Allied Industries) is an Australian producer of amusement and arcade games. This cabinet is quite similar to the original Taito Space Invaders, using a lot of the same components. However the LAI variant is

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Terminator 2 Arcade Restore – The final touches (Part 3)

September 3, 2017 roxbury Leave a comment

I am on the home stretch of finishing this project now! I have noticed that the bezel I have is way smaller than the tube. I think the standard tube size for T2 is 59 CM, and it looks like mine has been replaced with a 63cm tube. As the

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Terminator 2 Arcade Restore – Gun clean & fix (Part 2)

July 16, 2017 roxbury 10 comments

Following on from http://www.tehkella.net/retro/?p=1333. The guns on this need a bit of work. They are quite dirty, and the recoil doesn’t work. There is some sort of black grease on them. I don’t know where that has come from? EDIT: The black grease stuff is actually the bump stop on

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