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...
A few things turned up over the past month or two, while others were lost in the post… Zero Team – I wanted to replace my New Zero Team so bought this, the audio is a bit noisy...
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...
Won’t be many more like this, various reasons but there are a few left in the postal system and these which I picked up across the last two months. Terra Force – I picked up a second one...
When I was young, my parents used to take us to Hunstanton fairly often, it’s a small seaside town in the northern part of Norfolk, and wasn’t that far from where we lived, just a couple of hours. I’ve...
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...
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...