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philexile

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  1. Here are two closer picts of the blue wire: Right, there was no sound or video, just a black screen. So I should re-solder the two point on the blue wire?
  2. I may give the Jaguar CD a go someday. Maybe this winter if its as snowy as last years. My first goal is to get one of these flash carts. Heard back from the seller and he is going to refund a good portion of the money I paid since the system has a hardware flaw. Next step will be to open it up, investigate the board and replace that cap if necessary. Maybe I'll get lucky and just have to re-flow some solder. Thank you again to everyone for the assistance!
  3. Hi Zero, Thanks for the tip! Still waiting to hear back from the seller.
  4. Gotcha. Sorry about that. Any thoughts on my hardware question?
  5. I've been messing with the Jaguar for a bit and I've found that if I take the game out 5-6 times, it eventually boots up and then any game I insert after that point works. I'm guessing something gets 'wiggled' into place. I don't know much about these systems, but I'm wondering if its a bad solder point on the cart slot? I wanted to ask your opinions on this since you guys have worked with these systems a lot more than I have.
  6. Oh, I didn't know that. Let me know if you want me to check around stateside. I work in NY, so there are a lot of shops around here that may have obscure components. Ha, four? That's pretty crazy. Atari never did anything simply did they? I actually did hack up two Xbox pads, one with a DB-15 female end, one with a DB-25. Each of the pin-points were wired to a button on the controller: A, B, X, Start, etc. I was then able to mod the original emulator controllers (SNES, NES, MD, etc) to work with the Xbox since the controller was acting as a piggy-back of sorts. I even was able to mod a 5200 controller to work, analog and all. This was a major hack job though and its why I also modded a controller with a DB-25 in. I eventually am going to post a how-I-did on here for Madmab complete with picts. I think 75% of the internals were replaced to get it to work. Anyway, maybe I should just build my own spinner controller (box like) to work with the Xbox in this way? How do those things transmit the signal? The Xbox (and MAME for Xbox, CoinOps) can accept mouse input. I'm able to use the trackball on the X-Arcade in games like Crystal Castles. Great, I'll keep my eyes open for a 4mb flashcart. I don't want to deal with too complex a setup. From what I've seen the Jaguar CD is really buggy and I'm not sure if there are any really great games that would be worth the hassle. Correct me if I'm wrong! Thanks again for the support!
  7. I'm sure he'll make more, right Tyrant? It would be awesome if somehow I could get a micro-controller programmed to make it work with an original Xbox and its MAME emulator, CoinOps. Currently, you have to use the R/L trigger buttons to simulate the spinner movement. Ya, I'm going to ask the seller what he wants to do. I was thinking of trying to heat up the solder points under the cartridge slot, to see if its a faulty solder point, but from what your saying, I don't think I'll waste my time with it. It could be some bad cap on the board for all I know. Any suggestions on where I can get a working 'core' system and how much they generally go for? Also, are there any flash carts available? I would like to get one for homebrew or games that are too expensive to buy, like Battlesphere. Thanks again for the help.
  8. Hi, Thanks for your response. I've had this issue with the RF converter as well. I also tried an S-Vid and SCART adapter which I purchased off eBay shortly after buying this bundle. Unfortunately, the issue is the same across the board. I also won your rotary controller, which I broke the bank on. It worked great this afternoon when I briefly had Tempest up and running.... Any other ideas? One of my Jaguars has those mods, and I'm pretty certain they're done by Atari, as the Jag in question came with my alpine. Similarly, it's an early model (K series), and has the ADC chips. I'm not sure why the caps are over the ram like that, or why they're only over one bank of it. I believe my stub-jag also has the small fixup wire, but without opening it up I can't be sure. As for your black-screen issue, could it be as simple as the A/V cable not making contact properly? You didn't mention what you're using, but I sometimes get the same kind of intermittent video-loss with my scart cable, when the edge connector isn't properly secured (or there is stress pulling it to an angle). While Jaguar's RF modulators are notoriously bad, if the problem is fixed by using RF, you might want to look into cleaning the A/V contacts.
  9. Ya, not sure what sort of mod someone was trying to do. I would bet that they (possibly even Atari) were just trying to fix an issue cheaply and efficiently. Or not. I don't know enough about these systems unfortunately. I've been in contact with the seller throughout and he has been understand. He said the system didn't exhibit this sort of behavior for him, so its possible something happened when it was shipped out. Maybe all the shaking during the trip or extreme hot/cold of travel exasperated an already existent problem. Any other thoughts?
  10. So, I'm guessing those wires and transistors aren't a normal variation for the Jaguar?
  11. Here is an image of the Jag's mobo. I took it apart for the heck of it. I noticed that its been opened before. One of the screws was the incorrect size (too small) and I saw two odd things on the motherboard: MY JAG: - there is a blue wire on the left hand side connecting two points of the mobo - there are two transistors? connected to one of the RAM? chips A PICT OF A JAG OFF BENHECK: - Note: No weird wires or
  12. Ok, good to know. Glad I didn't pull out my solder station for nothing. It does seem totally random as to when it boots and when it doesn't. For instance, I tried booting Tempest right before going out for a run and it worked fine. I powered it off and left the game in the console. Came back, took a shower, tried to turn the game on again and it black screened. I tried cleaning the games/cart slot and that had no effect. Any other ideas?
  13. Sorry, I should have noted that the Jaguar's red light does come on. Do you think this could still be the issue? I'm great at soldering, but I may return this to the seller and I don't want him to think I somehow damaged the unit through tampering with it. Thanks
  14. Actually, looking at this closely shows there isn't any visible corrosion. Kinda getting fed up at this point.
  15. I looked at the pins, they definitely aren't bent as far as I can tell. Its possible the pins are corroded I suppose, but I'm not sure why things would work one time and not the other. Any recommendations on how to clean corrosion? Any other suggestions? I have a feeling this has something to do with the power in the console, but its just a guess.
  16. Hello, I recently purchased a complete Jaguar with 10 games from another forum. Unfortunately, its had issues since I purchased it. Sometimes it wouldn't boot, I would be greeted with a black screen. After a few more tries, the game would eventually boot fine and any subsequent games I put in after would also boot. I did notice that after about 5 minutes or so, the games would stop booting again. Maybe it needed to be 'warmed up' ? At first, I thought the games or cartridge slot were just dirty, but this doesn't seem to be the case because I noticed the 'fix' would be to hold the power button for a second or two until the Jaguar boot screen appeared. Unfortunately, now this has stopped working as well and I'm just shown the black screen. I let the guy know I was having problems with it. Has anyone had any issues similar to this and know the fix or cause for that matter? Thank you
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