Installed the steel control panels after a Jamma rewire! These are fantastic little cabinets!
Had the wrong tube on this cab for YEARS! I always thought the tube was just bad! Turns out it has a Mitsubishi tube instead of the Toshiba that should be paired with the Nanao MS8-26 chassis! I just swapped with a spare and it's great now 😁
Guys I think I downloaded the wrong Marvel Vs Capcom Fighting Collection
Quick fix on this Asian region Super Street Fighter II X ! I had a Japanese board but I wanted this game in in English as well :D
I removed the battery and installed an Arduino Nano with NoBatteryCPS2 so that it doesn't need batteries ever again. The board showed an RAM 1 NG error before crashing and rebooting. Replaced the RAM ICs and fixed it!
Looks like the CPU is also really hard in the Asian version, just like the US release lol
Quick repair on this Soul Calibur arcade game! I just replaced a few leaking capacitors and populated missing ones. Fixed! :D
Dino King restorations are coming along nicely :)
Hey guys. I'm still here lol. I've just been so busy and dead tired for the last two months. Finally got to catch my breath over this short break. I'll be rearranging the cabs in my basement arcade. I'm hoping to gain a bit more space with a better layout, but here's a video of what it looks like right now! 😁
I know I haven't posted in a while. Been busy with other things 😆 but I have some science for today. Just a quick video about what an arcade stick lag test looks like on the PC.
Before all of this could happen, I had to build a lag tester with an Arduino Uno and a USB Host Shield, and then connect the test pin to a button or direction on the stick. I then connect the stick to the USB Port on the Arduino USB Host Shield. It is not connected to a console or PC while this test runs.
The Arduino shorts the test pin to ground and measures the time it takes for the stick to send a signal. This is repeated 1000 times, and the measurements are displayed on the Arduino IDE Serial Monitor. After this, the data is copied to a spreadsheet. The whole test is then repeated for each available poll rate (in this case, they are 10ms, 8ms, and 1ms). Each test run takes about 1 minute, so I had to speed up some parts of the video 😆
This is a test for the Madcatz TES+ in PS3 Mode. It shows an average latency of 16.9 Ms without overclocking. That's almost guaranteed to lag 1 frame on every input. Garbage! 🚮🚮🚮 For what it's worth, it's actually better than the older Madcatz TE sticks, which averaged 24ms! 💀 Old Madcatz PCBs were awful!
A-cho!!! Probably the most famous arcade in Kyoto!
Animals just love cabs. 🐸
This was what the home arcade setup looked like in May 2021. I had just finished repairing everything and wiring up the lights. After turning everything on, I sat here for 30 minutes, just listening to the noise of the arcade. 🔊
I've managed to add a bunch of cabs since then, so the space doesn't look the same anymore. I might post another video when I finish setting up the final few machines due to arrive this week! 🤩
Installed a USB2DB15 adapter! This lets me use USB controllers on my arcade games, much like the Undamned adapters. The compatibility is not perfect yet, but I've tried several sticks and most of them worked! This is an Arduino Pro Micro board controlling a NeoGeo MVS.
I've had one of these set up for a while on my "supergun" test bench, but now I finally have one on an actual cabinet! I still have to install one on the player 2 side though...
