Category: Tech / Repair

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...

Mutant Night is a pretty rare game, even with it being poorly known, weird and somewhat unpopular it’s still hard to find a real one.  Thankfully bootlegs exist and some are almost perfect clones. Unfortunately there’s a problem with...

From time to time, you’ll come across ‘problem’ parts – like the Jaleco ROMs in my last post.  Another long standing pain in the neck are 28 pin 1mbit mask devices used primarily by Konami and Namco. Now with...

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...

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...

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...

I’ve had a Japanese Battle Garegga for a while, but one thing which had always bothered me is that it was fussy about which cabs it would work on and which it wouldn’t.  I found that quickly toggling the...

I picked a Gundhara PCB recently on the forum, it was advertised as a bootleg but it strongly resembled the strange Daioh I got recently and obviously came from the same factory.  I think the most likely explanation for...