I’m having to recap a Thunder Blade PCB to try to eliminate a noise problem in the audio – the schematics exist online but the audio section is barely readable. Aside from the ‘supercap’ – here’s a full list...
I just picked up an integrated V4 motherboard and 9 carts, main TV article updated here: TourVision – like a Playchoice for PC Engine
I have recently been renovating and upgrading the Amiga 2000 which I have owned for over a decade, but for most of that time spent its life as a monitor stand after I accidentally formatted the hard drive…. The...
If you’ve been watching my streams or VODs recently on Twitch, you’ll have seen that I’ve got back into Commodore 64 stuff. Since I only stream real hardware like the hideous poser that I am, I got a real...
A contact of mine in Spain came across a strange motherboard while searching for carts for me – while it’s of limited usefulness due to the limited number of V1 cartridges and functionality, it answered many lingering questions I...
If you’ve seen my recent new arrivals post, you may have noticed a broken Nova 2001 PCB. I’d had a quick look at it when it arrived and managed to at least capture the error message, but today I...
I’ve seen this on three different boards now, and it turns out that certain families of Nichibutsu Mahjong hardware can have problems with colour bleeding and minor visual glitches. For example Club 90’s and The Lady Hunter both suffer...
This one is a simple fix but I thought I’d use it to demonstrate a technique for making minor track repairs. I received a TMHT PCB today which on testing showed this mess: While the screen is a complete...
As discussed in other articles, the TourVision system is just a PC engine automation platform & interface. The RGB output of PC Engine consoles is rather low, especially compared to JAMMA standards, and as such the motherboard implements a...
Update 19/04/2019 – in the button codes list I had buttons I and II mixed up Update 08/05/2019 – newer version of the bios tool uploaded & corrections This is a followup to my previous article on the TourVision...