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  1. Posted

    Well this is what you need:

     

    From Scratch:

     

    PCB/GameBoard

    Power Supply. You can get generic ones with +5 +12, etc, etc.

    Monitor. RGB 13", common 19", 25", etc.

    Control Panel.

    Cab.

    Clean power to monitor if not built into power supply or monitor.

    jamma wire harness or proper harness for pcb.

     

    Jamma is a standard developed in the early 90's or so. Depending on the game you will need to mount the monitor horizontal or vertical in the Arcade cabinet. So if you have mutiple PCB and you want to swipt them out, if you have jamma it is pretty much plug and play.

     

    Monitors sometimes need what is called a cap kit. If they are acting funky. Streched pictures, lines, etc, etc. This is basicly a bag full of capacitors to replace the old ones on the monitor board. Depending on the monitor you can get a pretty complete kit to replace everything on the monitor.

     

    Check monitor types. Some of the older games used unique monitors. Later units used a common RGB monitor. Their is different resulution monitors.

     

    you can also use www.klov.com to check stats on most games. I also searched around the web. You can pick up most information on everything. What voltage, monitor, and connector you need.

     

    I to am looking for a game and as soon as I find one. I hope the fun will begin.

     

    laters,

     

    ussexplorer

  2. Posted

    Well, as for asking around and then taking it. That is fine. As for taking it from the back of the thrift store. Yea I would always donate or not argue on a price is something was a little high the next time I went to a thrift store. It always cheered me back up. Especially since most of the stuff I noticed form the drop boxes don't make it to the thirft store in the first place. At least in my area. Deseret industries like to mix up trucks sometimes. Not often enough though. One time I donated a whole bunch of dumb terminals, cpm machine, etc. Then a few days latter they ended up in the local thrift store. Sigh.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  3. Posted

    Out of all the game systems that your parents sold off. Did you or your parents purchase the sytsem that was chucked?

    My dad chucked my six switcher a few years back. Well like 4 years now. Can't blame him though. It was sitting in his garage. Well long story anyway. I purchased it with my own money. Big $30.00 if I remeber correctly.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  5. Posted

    Well, I don't understand if you are so much of collector in games that you didn't know how to treat such a item. For instance you can heat the label off to remove the screw. I have done that a few times with carts that needed the connectors cleaned. This was way before I even joined atariage. As for an employee putting the cart out. I'm suprised you didn't train him on looking for proto types. In a few games shops I was in the owner got to inspect everything that came in before it went out.

     

    Later,

     

    ussexplorer

  6. Posted

    I assume you are talking about the Atari Lynx and I assume you found the Atari Lynx Forum.

     

    I do not have one or even seen one in thrift stores let alone games. But that could just be this area since I have never seen any used jaguars except in used game stores. Oh and when they first came out at walmart.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  8. Posted

    Brought a tear to my eye.

     

    Remebers the sears in the next town over and how they went down in price. FOr the longest time I tried to save up money for 7800 but being a young sprout and no cash. I didn't get lucky. I seemed to have enough for the jr but I already had a woody. So I was after the 7800 sigh the memories.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  11. Posted

    I don't want to rain on your parade but you must not see many of those in thrift shops. For a while in this area loads of them was running through at different prices and software. Sorry I can't help you out. I'm sortof kicking myself for not picking one up and the loads of software I passed by.

     

    laters,

     

    ussexplorer

  13. Posted

    I'm so sorry and I swore I have found it before. I have two phaser light guns and I want to play corps killer. I have a blue gun for the genesis but as you know it will not work. So I plug the phaser light gun into corps killer and it detects. But I can't get it to fire. I assume it needs to be re-pinned. Anybody can point me to a howto or something I would appricate it.

     

    Thank You,

     

    ussexplorer

  14. Posted

    Well the system I purchased used at a yard sale game with about 10 games or so. I remeber purchasing other games at yard sales too. Like crystal castles. But what I consider the first and only official game purchased directly from atari was Moon Patrol. This was latter on in Atari's life before the jaguar but during the 2600jr/7800 systems. So it was like 19.95 I think. I would have to look at the receipt if I still have it. Funny part to is it died. So years later I replaced with with one from a thrift store or someplace. As another note First game I purchased for nintendo was spy hunter and the first game I purchased for a sega gensis was ms. pacman and the 6pack with sonic. I only purchased two new games systems. Genesis 3 at closeout price of like 20.00 for a gift to my younger brother since I had duplicate games floating around and for myself and wife a playstation one we later pawned.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  16. Posted

    Well a simple design works the best. Even if it is just a square case. Some wood grain would be nice. I would say cart slot, joystick, and a/v out. Perhaps some type of expansion port (To add like a genesis add-on). Does make me wonder though. Both the cart and seperate peices raises the price. Then you have new consoles already at $99.00 or $149.00. Plus you got the sticks anywhere from 16.00 to 24.00. So the logical way is the traditional all in one stick.

     

    well that is my 2 cents.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  18. Posted

    I picked up the following Genesis Games Today

     

    Lotus II w/Box w/manual

    Golden Axe II w/Box

    Alien Storm w/Box

     

    I wonder sometimes if these are good deals. At $5.00 a peice it makes me wonder about how good of a deal I got. Sure, with box and manual no problem, but without a manual. I could arque that if I order on-line unless I get a big lot it could easily run over $5.00 with s/h per game.

    I guess I'm just a little old school. With retro stuff becomming the fad. Instead of getting a loose cart for .50 cent to 1.00 you pick it up for $3.00. and for something with a box and manual instead of 3.00 you get it for 5.00.

     

    I did get a break this time. I had a coupon for $5.00 off so I only spent $10.00 + tax.

     

    Oh well life goes on.

     

    laters,

     

    ussexplorer

  19. Posted

    Well, the shiny labels are pretty good about not letting the goo gone get that far. If it does it will mostly desolve the glue. So you just clean and re-glue the label. I have not had to do that yet. I purchased a super mario 3 cart with rental stickers and stuff months ago. Nailed it with goo gone and not had a bit of problem. Same with genesis and atari carts. Shiny labels are nice.

     

     

    laters,

     

    ussexplorer

  21. Posted

    I'm sorry I can't help but laugh a little. I myself have the problem with collecting vast amount of stuff that never fits anything good. Even if I clean the area it still looks cluttered to me. If this helps I finally got a bookshelf and some adjustable shelves. Then I took some boxes depending on the location of shelfs to put all the loose stuff in. The rest of the stuff I hid away in boxes in the closet and under the stairs. One nice thing about adjustable shelves if when you re-arrange stuff you can always remove and store the extra peices. Another thing I have for my movies is a big locking wooden cabinet. This matches the other imitation wooden items in my living room. If it is not wooden for eletronic stuff I picked up what they call a yaffa cube. It is black and you can purchase additional sections for them. They are the basic closet cubes. One of these days I'll get around to taking a picture of the whole setup in different areas to show people.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  22. Posted

    Well after posting the message I got it to work. I finally opened up my 32x unit thinking it was the ribbon cable and to see if I could clean the connectors some more. Everything looked brand new except for the dust where the cart slot it at. I pushed on the ribbon cables and nothing happened. They looked well seated. After pondering how to clean without a cleaning kit. This is what I did

     

    1. Took a 720k floppy disk and ripped it apart

    2. took one side and cut any lines out to make a smooth peice of plastic

    3. took one coffee filter and wrapped it around the plastic

    4. put some rubbing alcohol on the coffee filter. Just the part that was going to be inserted into the card connector.

    5. Cleaned the 32x adaptor. Yes you could see the gunk. Not as much as I suspected.

    6. Cleaned the 16 bit genesis II system. More gunk than the 32x but still not as much as expected after seeing the bottom card edge of the 32x.

    7. left top off for test run. Ran great. Put top back on 32x.

    8. Cleaned my Genesis I and Power base with each new filter or another portion of used one.

     

    I guess a dirty connector is a sign of good playing. It seems to me the more games one plays. The faster it gets dirty. Yes I do clean all the carts I shove into it too.

     

    Once again thanks for any help.

     

    later,

     

    ussexplorer

  24. Posted

    I hope it is just me and I need to clean the connectors more. I cleaned the cart connectors and get the following.

     

    Doom = Some can't of data eng err that appears on the screen. Then the game loose portion of it and locks up. It was working just fine and I cleaned the contacts of the game up nice.

     

     

    Knuckles Chaotica. (Just picked up MIB) 5.00

     

    Copyright shows up then make a noise and turns to blank screen. The contacts and cart look brand new. I cleaned it anyway and find hardly any dirt.

     

     

    The star wars 32x works fine. Shows the copyrigh screen. Then make a sound and loads up just fine. No problems. I think it might have locked up once can't remeber.

     

     

    Cleaned the contacts on the 32x itself between the genesis to 32x. They was pretty dirty. I was suprised since I cleaned them like 3 months ago and got it looking all good.

     

     

    The big problem is I can't really clean the contacts on the genesis cart slot or 32x cart slot. I'm going to try a few things today. But I don't expect much luck.

     

    All 16 big games work fine through the 32x adaptor.

     

    Thanks for any help,

     

    ussexplorer

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