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  1. Hi, Just to let u know that this guy pboland makes fantastic labels. I ordered 2 full sets of labels from him last year and the results are amazing. Absolutely indistinguishable from the originals. Perfect paper, gloss and glue. Activision labels and foil -imagic- are astonishing. I would recommend this guy with no doubt. Honestly I doubt it's even possible to do this work better.
  2. What makes me think that it could be the TIA is that if you look at my first pictures I think I bridged r206 to the green resistor next to it with the audio cable and if I visually follow the board line coming out of r206 it leads down to the TIA...
  3. I've cleaned the slot pins with a thin qtip and alcohol, yes and now for whatever the reasons the image is worse :-( now nothing turns up with most of the carts and on space invaders only a row of invaders at the bottom. Coincidence or a bad 24 pin slot? Btw how do u remove this? I tried and pushed back board tabs to get the plastic frame of the 24 pk slot but it won't come out. There's the black plastic frame around and the center black plastic where u insert the carts.
  4. I'm coming to the conclusion that either the TIA or the cartridge slot are fried. Why the cartridge slot? Cause I've just realised that when putting a cart in the slot and slightly moving it towards the sides to make it fit better the image changes. Also when tapping the TIA with a finger the patterns on the image -numbers, ships, etc vary. Question of course is how yo determine which of them both is wrong and most importantly why did this happen? I don't want to buy another unit -standalone console- and make the same mistake. My guess is the yellow audio wire was initially bridging the resistor next to it -bad soldering- or one of the resistors on the mod board was broken and caused the TIA to get fried. Any ideas?
  5. Amazingly I've found a thick solder drop on a rear TIA pin which probably fell down from soldering tool while soldering from the upper rear of the board. Just removed it but problem remains. The drop wasn't shortening or bridging anything so question is could this just have damaged the TIA chip by heating it for a second??
  6. Nice remark. I'll check if I've dropped some solder on some other pins...
  7. I checked this but it's not a crack/gap, it's just a bad shade in the picture. I don't know if you can see it better in the pictures below. I also resoldered all the joints carefully previously heating them and applying solder straight on them as you said. Solderings appear to be much neater now but still same result, weird video with out of place things. Take a look at other games I tested. Sent a message to Michael -the guy who sold me this- nice guy, he's looking into it.
  8. You're absolutely right. As I said unfortunately my soldering skills are poor and I never heat up the pins before soldering but apply solder directly on the iron. Thanks for the advice. Will check on all these tomorrow and will post it. Thanks
  9. Could it also be one of the small resistors or the black transistor on the mod board? Has anybody had problems with these small pieces on such a similar board??
  10. Yes, I thought so. Something could have got fried. On the other hand I guess it could be the mod board itself so I'm letting the guy who sold me that know to see if he can send me another one. That was the only one I had left. As for the rf it's still there but pins and the small board on the left are gone so it'd need a lot of work to get it back to normal and my soldering skills are poor.
  11. Games played perfectly yesterday before modding. Could it be audio/video shorting/interference? Problem is that I've rechecked all the solderings and none of them is touching the other so I don't know where to look.
  12. Just removed and resoldered the yellow wire. Also checked on any other possible soldering bridges but not such thing. By switching it on/off several times I randomly get weird video only. Things appear to be mixed up in the games.
  13. Will check on the bridge you're talking about. Yep, not big soldering skills here. Just removed R 209 but still the same.
  14. Thanks for the info. I'll try after work and let u know. Cheers
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