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  1. One of the least glamorous parts of the arcade hobby is bending pins on JAMMA connectors. #jamma #retrogaming

  2. Wir haben unserem Arcade-Automaten ein Upgrade mit einem 50-Spiele-JAMMA-Modul spendiert!
    #retro #arcarde #jamma

    Nicht vergessen: Jeden 2. Samstag in geraden Monaten ist Retro-Computer-Meeting im space.bi !

  3. Ok, the problem is definitely an issue with the addressing: I checked with MAME: the graphics that shows up garbled is stored in two mask roms, g27 and g26, and is stored in horizontal interleaved stripes (makes sense, given that these roms are 8bit and this machine runs on a 68k). You remove a ROM, you get missing stripes in the letters.

    The garbage we see is made up of coherent stripes, taken from the wrong place in the ROM. We even see whole letters at times. Definitely not corruption in the roms themselves.

    No idea if I'll have time tomorrow, but I have an idea of where to look next. #jamma #repair

  4. Almost! But not yet.
    All the selftests are passing (after swapping out 3 more ram chips), but I still have garbled text.

    Bad mask rom or addressing issue?
    This is going to be a PITA. #JAMMA #repair

  5. Wires, connectors, buttons, micro switches and coin counters! Someone gutted an #arcade cabinet and sold the innards by the lot! #jamma

  6. What the... I've never seen corrosion of this type. It looks almost like something that grows. This is on a #JAMMA arcade PCB (and of course it has melted the pins of a custom IC...
    I wonder if I can Dremel it to try and recover it.

  7. It's been a long time since I had to work on #JAMMA boards. At the time I used an ugly adapter made on a protoboard.
    Now, I do have some other #arcade PCBs that need my attention, so I decided to a quickly design a semi-decent adapter to help me. I know there are dozens around, but hey... Sometimes drawing a PCB is just relaxing.

    My idea was to design another card that plugs on top of this one providing and adapter for gaming controllers, but alone this will do for testing.

  8. (2/2)

    When it came to the discussion how "mechanical" video gaming is even possible, I fetched the "BLIP" handheld from my collection to show how #Pong can be played mechanically.

    The upright flatscreen shows a multi-#arcade #Jamma board with games like #SpaceInvaders, #PacMan and >500 more.

    Unluckily ma #Vectrex had a breakdown in the end of the session. 💔

  9. After the last week's excursion to the @retrogamesev in Karlsruhe the idea came up to set-up our own #arcade machine in the #SRH #GamesLab. So I brought my 500in1 #Jamma Upright Multicade module.

  10. When you order a decades-old #Sega Columns arcade board from Japan, there's gonna be a little bit of shipping damage. And operator bodges. And getting to grips with the first time I've swapped a PCB out in my Dynamo cabinet.

    https://www.leadedsolder.com/2023/02/21/columns-pcb-pickup-install-repair.html

    Still, a triumph of sorts. A calm before the storm. #retrocomputing #retrogaming #arcade #systemc #systemc2 #jamma
  11. Hi folks, can anyone sign post me towards where the #Jamma #arcade restoration people hang out on here? I'm working on restoring a suicided original of Pang. Battery is still there, hasn't leaked, thankfully! But is measuring 0.28V so I can probably confidently say it's dead and we've lost the content of the ram chip.

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