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Cyberpunk 2020 fan and CDPR stock holder here. I find it very ironic that Cyberpunk 2077 fans are defending CDPR to the teeth despite the entire franchise being about the dangers of unethical corporations. CDPR deliberately hid the poor performance of the PS4 and XBONE versions via review embargos and lack of screenshots and videos before release. No amount of forum shilling and desperate coping is going to take back the fact that their stock has lost almost half of it's value since the start of the month and investors have started a class action lawsuit over the lies and misrepresentation. Gamers aren't mad about the buggy performance as much as they are mad about the fact that CDPR overpromised and wayyyy underdelivered. And then tried to keep that fact a secret until after people forked their cash over.

I got your fucking Zelda 2 cartridge here bitch! I dont even smoke cigarettes!

Alright boys, bust out your cyberdecks and do up your tech hair because we are OFFICIALLY living in the FUTURE

I used to have the "collect them all" attitude. I would maintain collection lists, buy games I had no intention to play, upgrade carts with poor labels as I found them, etc. After a while I found I was straying away from the reason I came to the hobby in the first place: playing fun video games. These days I've gotten pretty selective about what I buy... With free time being more scarce than money at this point, I've found it's important to spend your time doing what you actually enjoy. You know, playing games.... instead of being a glorified bookkeeper.

I really wasn't asking how they do it, I was more asking why we had the big spike in it. Did another classic gaming forum die off somewhere and we're getting their new users? Did google change the way the index old forum posts? Mystery indeed.

Whats up with the recent glut of new users reviving 15+ year old marketplace ads? I think I've seen more in the past month then I have in the past 5 years.

Buddy I dont know what to tell you but at least get your story straight.

He didn't sell you a defective item. The solid led means the board passed the self test. The fact that it works as a keyboard on a raspberry pi means the ultimarc ipac4 is working just fine. It sounds like you're having driver issues. If you aren't willing to at least attempt fixing your problem yourself, then you're going to have a REALLY hard time once you try to use this with MAME or other emulators. Sell your parts and buy an Arcade1up because it sounds like you're not cut out for this.

I paid $800 for mine and I dont regret it a bit. It was the best selling Gottlieb game for a reason!

I'd call it one of Gottlieb's hidden gems. It's an unforgiving game for newer players but good fun for people who are experienced pinballers. It's a drop target game with 4 flippers. The 4 flippers give you absolute control of the ball, so it rewards good ball handling and punishes random flipping (balls falling between flippers, etc). The main criticism you see online is the lack of sound board (it's a chime game) and the fact that it plays like an EM game despite being a System 1 solid state game. IMO it's probably the best System 1 Gottlieb title.

Finally got that Haunted House. Ended up hauling 2 other games up the seller's stairs for a discount as well. The discount wasnt worth it...

One I've encountered professionally: "We dont need the release to be perfect, we just need it out the door" Please note, this logic apparently applies even if the remaining bug(s) are critical. "We'll just patch it next release!" Only for that firmware revision to get buried underneath the 50 other items in the engineering backlog.

I'd definitely start with replacing the transistor oscillator circuit with an actual crystal or oscillator. I'm not familiar with the pong chip above, but the usual +/-20% tolerance on discrete components doesn't work well with circuits that need a stable clock. EDIT: looking at your picture as well, it's usually not best practice to have your clock circuit so far away from your clocked device. Your clock signal may not be stable enough by the time it gets to the chip. You can in fact use three inductors in series to get 90uH. In series inductors work like resistors; the inductance adds together.

If it's too late to enter, then I'd still be interested in providing a gift if someone doesn't receive theirs. Back up Santa I guess?

Do you have an oscilloscope to verify that you have a good clock signal? That would be my first step for troubleshooting

Another satisfied customer over here!

I have an old knockoff pong machine that I turned into a dedicated paddle game mame cabinet. I used regular atari 2600 paddles with the adapter you can get from 2600-daptor. Works fantastic and it works with damn near every emulator you throw at it.

Not gonna lie, I believed you 100% before I read the spoiler box Back in college I worked in an optics lab that had a home built GLAD Deposition machine that was 8 feet tall and around 400 pounds. You wouldn't believe some of the dumb shit they stuck in that bad boy. Want to coat a penny with a 10nm layer of titanium? Never mind the fact that 95% of the titanium sputtered out gets wasted.

Communication could have been better on 5-11's part, but that's sometimes how it goes with these hobbyist level projects. Especially considering we're in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. 5-11 has been around these parts for 17 years, he's good for it. However, it takes a heavy set of nuts (or arrogance?) to swoop in, hijack a project and demand that 5-11 quit his project. Saying all the while that 5-11 should quit because "I've already spent money on the project". As if 5-11 hasn't already spent a crap load of his own time and resources on the project already. It's made even worse by the fact that this guy is completely unknown, challenging a user whos been a part of the community for almost 2 decades.

I've never seen it on video games, but I've seen it plenty of times on antique firearms and other items. Back in the day before social security fraud/identity theft was common people would write their ssn on items that could easily be stolen. Stupid? At the time, no. If the police recovered your items your ssn would prove beyond reasonable doubt it belonged to you. Especially back when things like firearms didnt have serial numbers. Naive? Probably, but hindsight is 20/20.

I've used TE Connectivity IC sockets professionally for board designs that go into nasty environments (high heat, high moisture, lightning strikes). The sockets stand up to the moisture, and they dont fall apart after repeated insert/reinsert of chips. I can't remember which exact part I used, but it was the same product series as this one: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/1-2199298-2/A120347-ND/5022039?utm_campaign=buynow&utm_medium=aggregator&curr=usd&utm_source=octopart

I was at a guys house to buy something unrelated and I asked if he had any arcade stuff he didnt want. Sometimes asking and having extra cash on hand pays off. The Stargate to the left of the Anti-Aircraft I got the week prior for $250. One new fly back transformer and it's up and running. I've had some good luck lately.