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15 February 2016

Reading HN62312 and HN62304 chips

Written by S11
I recently ended up buying a Jaleco Lord Of King (Astyanax) PCB, which also came with a P-47 ROM board – or maybe it was the other way around.  When I looked at it and my existing P-47, and...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
31 January 2016

Getting back on a bike

Written by S11
This kind of turned into an arcade only blog, but I didn’t really intend for that to happen, I lost a lot of enthusiasm to write a lot because my job wears me out mentally, for all the wrong...
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General
30 January 2016

New arrivals 29/01/2016

Written by S11
Yeah, not much to say about this other than my credit card is on fire.  Much of the wanted list got scrubbed with this pile of games – not sure where I’m going to store them yet…..  I usually...
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Arcade
01 January 2016

TourVision – like a Playchoice for PC Engine

Written by S11
(Update 26/08/2017 – revised article to cover newly discovered V1 hardware) (Update 28/11/2018 – revised V4 integrated photo / description) (Update 05/02/2018 – flyer added) (Update 27/03/2018 – score panel discovered) (Update 18/04/2018 – V1 system with support rail...
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Arcade, Games
28 December 2015

New arrivals 28/12/2015

Written by S11
Well, time for the last PCB spam of the year.  I think I’m going to have to finally give in and start storing some of the less valuable stuff that I don’t use in the garage, with the boxes...
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Arcade
02 December 2015

Code archeology – Sky Smasher leads to Cabal II

Written by S11
I found this out a while ago, but haven’t managed to post about it yet other than mentioning it on IRC and maybe a mailing list. When I discovered Sky Smasher (which is a great shooter you should try...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
05 November 2015

Repair – Atomic Robo-Kid encrypted CPU replacement

Written by S11
I bought an Atomic Robo-Kid PCB a long time ago, in fact my e-mail doesn’t even go back far enough to find out when it was.  Just one problem, it was always unreliable and over the years as I’ve...
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Arcade, Tech / Repair
04 November 2015

New arrivals 03/11/2015

Written by S11
I’d really wanted to post an interesting repair article next, but I’m still waiting on the parts, so here are some PCBs again.   Super Locomotive – they made 35 of this game allegedly way back in the early...
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Arcade
14 October 2015

New arrivals 14/10/2015

Written by S11
Well it’s been a little while since I posted some of these, it was nice to have someone tell me on a forum message that they like reading these because there are games they haven’t heard of.  Well, if...
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Arcade
09 September 2015

Elusive artwork located!

Written by S11
I never thought I would ever find one of these, in fact I never knew this even existed.  Yet here it is, a mint unused Phelios POP (small cardboard display).  I’ve no intention of assembling this, it’s probably the...
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