Video gaming projects and general musings
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Well sooner than expected I couldn’t pass up this new project, an upright Outrun! It is not working, and needs a lot of TLC. This project needs to wait in line behind T2 and Space Invaders restoration. I am just imagining the sweet music and play of Outrun. Ahhhhhhhh
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I remember back in the day when the Terminator 2 movie came out, and playing the arcade shooting game. This great big behemoth of a cabinet. Loud recoiling guns, movie like scenes and fantastic sounds. It comes as no surprise I have always wanted one as an arcade collector. Well my
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