Picked up some more PCBs over the past month, a couple of interesting ones in this batch. WWF Wrestlefest – from back when Hogan was the main event and before WWF changed their name rather than go up...
It’s interesting perhaps, that while the majority of arcade Mahjong games are 2p VS types, most are in reality single player games. Of course there’s a simple explanation for this, the game relies on the players not being able...
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...
Bits & bobs with one epic resurrection. Puzzle Yatnori – I’ve had this one in the broken pile for over a year, only just thought to dump it a few days ago and we found it’s a known...
This is all the fault of Macaw and Icarus. Don’t even ask, no I can’t defend these purchases, and actually two of the ones I want the most, I still can’t find. Some of these are complete junk and...
A couple of things I’d been looking for turned up, one has been high on the hit list for a very long time. I’ve been a little lazy about posting them as these arrived a while ago, but here...
Mahjong games in MAME aren’t very popular with a lot of people, but recently some of those I hang around with on Twitch have started getting into them – myself included. Of course being the idiot collector that I...
Wow, June already. Couple of long standing wants fulfilled here! Zero Team – another one, same noisy audio as the last one. Common fault or design error? I have a Legionnaire with an odd capacitor hack on the...
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...