#retrorevival — Public Fediverse posts

Not sure what happened with this unit, looks like someone brought it to work while painting the building and when cutting metal. Paint spatters all over and metal sprinkles... Let's try and clean it as much possible before I have to leave for my appointment. #n64 #retrorevival

Done! I will leave testing for tomorrow before I turn into the hunchback of Notre Dame. Time for a snack and then to bed. #pcengine #PCエンジン #retrorevival

Installed the FM16W08 with the 5 lifted pins. Next step, soldering the wires. #pcengine #retrorevival #PCエンジン

Red was entirely missing. If I removed the red wire. the picture stayed the same. Different cable, same. Resoldered the wires, same. I ended up replacing the RGB amp (luckily I had one more) and all is good now. Maybe an FRAM mod now. #pcengine #PCエンジン #retrorevival

OK. I went ahead and jumpered J1. Turned on the Super CD-Rom² and I am getting a picture, including the RGB jailbars. There is still something off with the colors though. #pcengine #PCエンジン #retromodding #retrorevival

Removed The 5-pin DIN socket, cut off the protruding parts of the 3 extra pins from the 8-pin port, then soldered it onto the board. Now to test if everything is still working (composite). #pcengine #retrorevival #retromodding

Working! Will save the RGB mod for another day... #pcengine #retrorevival

Installed the good C2275 and made my own power pass-through cable to make sure that's not causing the problem. #pcengine #retrorevival

So @aergan.com suggested there may be a short on the output side, but there isn't much going on on the output side. It is a direct connection to the output jack, no other components in between. Maybe the cable is bad, but measures fine.. #pcengine #retrorevival

Removed the transistor from the good board so I can swap it with the bad, but recapped board. This way I don't have to wait for replacement parts. #pcengine #retrorevival

Put The CD drive from the other Super CD-Rom² and it loads the game, so once I fix the power problem, this baby is functional again. Except that it still needs an RGB mod, because... RGB. #pcengine #retrorevival

OK, so if I power the Core Grafx with a separate PSU, it powers on again. Phew. So it seems it is just a power problem with the power passthru. I might be able to figure out how to get itnworking again. Now to figure out which part(s) broke. #pcengine #retrorevival

Found something. The transistor "NEC C2275" is outputting only 5V instead of the 10V (or 10.5V), so not enough voltage going into the Core Grafx. But what is causing is? Is the C2275 faulty or something else? #pcengine #retrorevival

I noticed before a small wire on the bottom of the board near the AV port. So I opened my other Super CD-Rom² and compared the 2. The other one didn't have it. but the race connects theb2 points, so it's from a previous repair. Too bad, not the cause... #pcengine #retrorevival

I thought I'd pick this #pcengine Super CD-Rom² up again. I had recapped it some time ago, but it was not reading discs. After testing some things, there was a short crack and now it will not turn on anymore. Hmm.... #retrorevival

These are the points you can use to tap audio from. Left, Right and Ground. The side I am using this time is line level audio, if you connect to the points on the other side you can control the volume of the audio with the volume slider just like a headphone. #neogeo #retromodding #retrorevival

The stereo mod. Will run cable over top (again), not enough clearance bottom side for the 24AWG 2-core cable I am using. And all the sharp points sticking out could prick through the cable and make contact with the GND shielding of the cable. #neogeo #retromodding #retrorevival

Pure CSYNC mod enabled. Can't really see the difference with using composite as sync, but I am sure someone with better eye can. #neogeo #retrorevival #retromodding

RGB bypass done. Feels like a little sharper and brighter. Currently still using composite as sync, no changes there yet. That's up next. #neogeo #retromodding #retrorevival

Keep forgetting how fragile the AES boards are. Bodged a few pads. My way of removing the caps is also to blame. I heat up one side, bend, heat up other s8de, bend, until it comes out. Works well if the pads don't come off... #snk #neogeo #retrorevival #retromodding

Put new caps in (except the 2200uF low profile one). Cleaned up, test... and still working... phew :). Maybe continue tonight with the RGB bypass. #snk #neogeo #retrorevival #retromodding

Removed all caps except the RGBS ones, because I want to test before I do the RGB bypass mod and for that mod those caps need to be removed altogether. Cleaned up flux residue as well. #snk #neogeo #retrorevival #retromodding

Tried alcohol, contact spray, then even deoxit. Scraped with an x-acto knife, but could not get it to make contact. So then I just jumpered it and got it working. But not until I hooked up the IPS screen. Before that it was giving the dreaded single green led flash when turning on. #psp #retrorevival

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