chopperthedog

Unit made it to its new home along with some other stuff from my hoard. Really Cool dude, follow his channel. And to the local guy that asked me "would you entertain $300?", brush up on your bargaining and offer skills. good day.

Hehe, Was wondering how the emails from coast to coast were coming in from a local Craigslist ad. good day.

This console has been cleaned, fully recapped, new voltage regulators, calibrated to service manual, new springs and overlay on the joystick and no buzz amp installed. Great picture and ready for another 40 years of service. $400. Local cash sale, first come first serve. No shipping or e-banking. **sold and has a new papa** good day.

Still available, lowered to $200. Pamper yourself this holiday. good day.

Smokin' deal for someone. S-video / audio mod, cleaned, recapped, internal regulated power supply (no brick needed) and Atarimax sd cart. Also comes with dust cover and pair of super action controllers. $200 cash pick up location around 79th and Central, first come first serve. good day.

Nothing like video link upon video link with another 650 video links on a discussion forum. good day.

Bump. Price Drop. good day.

Thomas posted a nice little gift for those that don't own a vecfever. https://www.vecfever.com/2022/11/05/rns-public-release-fw-v2-49-and-general-project-info/ good day.

No. Has 16gb thumb drive with a couple of titles for testing purposes. good day.

Up for sale is a USB-GDROM for the dreamcast in a gdrom enclosure with lid switch, ready to drop right in. Dreamcast not included. $120 cash. Local pick-up only. (79th and Central Ave, area) If interested send PM. good day.

Answer in the first 30 sec of this video. good day.

Being a driving game dork, I've battled with emulators and multiple usb adapters over the years in hopes of being able to use a couple favorite negcon controllers with emulators. Ended up always being stuck with original hardware as my only option. I gave the ebay snac thingy a go, fired up R4 went into options and the game saw a negcon... no sh!t..... Finally! Set some new records and got stuck when trying to save them. R4 is one of them games that will only save to memory card slot 1. I saw the MC provisions on the PCB and crafted a custom mem card pcb for myself, works perfectly. Someone smarter than I could easily whip up a PCB file as an add on to that snac adapter for mem card support. good day.

The controller you linked only has one button and I have no desire to add a $40 box and extra cable to my set-up even if it did work with controller. The controller I modded was for the "master system" and a $3 bargain bin buy at sean kelly's store. And from the seagull description: Note: The Seagull 78 controller adapter is not compatible with Sega Master System controllers. good day.

I like a modified Epyx 500XJ (sega master system version). You just need a cable from a sad CX24 and the 2 resistors. good day.

Right on. Glad I was able to figure it out on my own without it turning into a bunch pm's or sending cart back to you. Should symptom pop up on another, we got some time saving knowledge now. good day.

Hard to f up lifting 2 resistors and adding a cap and since a ballblazer cart sounded fine I knew it wasn't my work or system. Upon checking pin outs of pokey/cart edge in some documents along with following traces and checking continuity it became obvious that my blank R15 was to blame. Thankfully the value needed was printed on PCB, installed missing resistor and I have full pokey volume now. good day.

Having a pokey issue with cart received this week. UAV modded system, real ballblazer cart works as it should with strong equal levels between pokey and tia. With pokey/concerto the pokey level is like 90% lower in volume compared to tia. At first I thought pokey was bad, swapped/borrowed pokey from asteroids deluxe board and same result, but realized that I can hear a faint level of distorted pokey audio through speaker. Hope someone can help. good day.

I did a run similar couple years back. In my research and experimenting with buttons and sticks, I learned sanwa or bust on buttons, cheap ebay "sanwa like" buttons turn to powder and squeak after some use. The joysticks with the grooves in the shafts felt cheap and I noticed jumpy pots with the 2 I tested, bit the bullet on some units with no grooves from some robotics place that were $18 each, but you felt the quality when the stick was mounted. The fanned button layout will alienate a number of games, I went with straight layout so the games that are L R thrust and fire can be played comfortably with large hands. Also with games like protector and you're on the joystick, button 1 is a quick thumb twitch away for reverse. If you use the same case I did, you won't get a button that low in the slope area. I've encouraged folks to copy my layout and cash in. Texture of the overlay is crucial and a nice touch to try to match. I documented from prototype to the product here. (starts on page 2) http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,154425.0.html Other photos. https://tbone1892001.wixsite.com/vectrex-guide/chopper-controller good day.

The overlay was done in true screen print form and it's the original release from the man. Wish I could've swung throwing my hat in the ring for the initial printing. The packrat/kelly and BDub (as I learned looking at the pcb and seeing the color led) is at a fantastic point that clearly isn't getting anyone rich and providing a top notch product. So if you ordered one and have a clear case, get it ready to display that nice vectorblade pcb. Mad props to all involved. good day

The circled tab in pic is kinda a spring that keeps tension on the centering rings so they don't rattle around. There's 2 rings and 2 tabs stacked that work interdependently. sometimes you have to hold 1 tab while rotating the other. Another tip: Take note of the angle of the front of the screen with back cover on, angle of unit leans back with cover off and will skew the view of adjustments being made, prop back of unit up with a book so it's same angle as with cover on. Also make adjustments sitting at your playing spot. good day.

Agreed. Go with UAV. Also see here before you take a drill to the 7800 case. good day.

@gtoal On the back side I just used some good clear label/packaging tape. Doesn't show up when installed on vec. If I was going to go further with these, was thinking of getting sheets of paper backed label covers and cutting custom shaped pieces for the smaller items. Battlezone and others with score window at top is just one long piece trimmed to edge of overlay. The trick to using rolled tape is to pull a long length off swiftly to not damage the glue on the tape so that you have a clean clear piece. Armor attack is just the grid cut out in blue and with small pieces of tape affixed to the reverse side of yellow. :p Same with WoW. Hot lamination would not go well for sure. Edge to edge gluing crossed my mind, but never attempted knowing that would fail as well. They do hold up well though, never considered the custom ones as a polished product though. I enjoy the hell out of them for myself. And sadly I'm sitting on material to make 20 more sets of the colored overlays I was selling before, but it is all garbage, warps in colors, not fully transparent, was a gut punch and huge money loss. Experimented with some other sources and it's like everyone has the same bad batch. good day.

Very cool stuff, but my unit didn't have side port and I wanted s-vid, L/R audio (it's mono but quick hook up for my system) and composite. You might be the person to run with this idea and offer a 3rd option for the folk that do the UAV install. Wish I was smart enough for this 3d printing thingamajigs. good day.

@StephenJ, frogger doesn't fit within the spirit of what he's doing. That game only has options for 1 or 2 player and difficulty. Where a game like space invaders has over 100 different game options, variations and combinations that benefits tremendously from a start menu. good day.

I'll get some inside pics when I go to work on the controls again. Almost thought there was no hope for it when I first got it a couple years ago, it's one large PCB and the double sided tape on PCB retainers in center let loose. The player 1 & 2 pots are hard soldered to PCB and 3 & 4 have wires, but both player 1 & 2 pots got bent up separated in half due to the weight and whole PCB was bouncing around in case. If I can fix the controls, this will be a pretty nice save. If you need pics or anything hit me up. I have the boxes for the radio shack, speedway and pong sports IV units. good day.