I was browsing Yahoo auctions recently looking for Mahjong control panels and an IMAX MJ adapter loom, when I came across an unusual little bartop machine, the “TONY”. The description stated that they’d plugged it in and nothing happened,...
I’ve had the good fortune to locate some of the add-on score display panels which were previously only seen in a flyer image, and testing them has helped me learn more about just what the “score” is. I saw...
Well here it is, I’d been planning to make some of these for a long time and finally found the time and energy to do so. TourVision carts are getting expensive. I think part of this may be my...
I’ve updated the Tourvision BIOS post, there’s a new version of the BIOS decoder tool that offers different output formats including one that tells you what all the bytes actually do, it now supports multiple BIOS versions for comparison...
Artemio (@artemio) has made a video discussing the issues with leaking capacitors on Irem and Konami boards (the infamous sound custom). I’ve updated the Irem games and leaking capacitors article here with the cap list for M99 Irem games,...
I recently obtained this from another member of The Dumping Union group, if you’ve seen my Tourvision posts then you’ll understand how eager I was to obtain a similar unit for a different system. So without further ado, here...
Living as I do in the UK and being the age I am, I grew up with home computers being my primary gaming experience with arcades being a rare treat if we visited the coast. In the UK by...
Just a little update – when I obtained the V1 system it seemed odd that there was no physical support for the carts and that they’d just use their edge connector to stay in place. The rail was missing...
I’m very excited to reveal I obtained a type of score panel which answers more questions on this system – the main article has been revised here: TourVision – like a Playchoice for PC Engine
The DVD-A01 is an early PC DVD player, which is used by the Nichibutsu High Rate DVD system. It’s one of the few models that work with this system, which only supports drives that have RPC Phase 1 region...