Live Show – Episode 24

This Live Show episode was broadcast live on Thursday, February 7, 2019. For more information on the show, please visit our YouTube page at http://youtube.arcaderepairtips.com/. All of our past episodes can be found there as well as the upcoming schedule for our future episodes. On this episode, Tim and Jonathan discussed the following topics…

• Question from Ben that has a Silver Strike Bowling arcade game that displays “No Signal” on the screen..
  Checking And Replacing A Power Supply (Arcade Repair Tips) – https://www.arcaderepairtips.com/2009/07/22/checking-and-replacing-a-power-supply/
• Question from Casey who wants to know how to hook up a spinner to his 412-in-1 multigame JAMMA board.
  JAMMA Trackball Harness for Multicade Boards (412-in-1) (Holland Computers) – http://bit.ly/hc-trackball-harness
• Question from Derek who is having problems starting a game on his Ms. Pac Man cabinet and has a grey screen on his X-Men vs. Street Fighter cabinet.
  Connecting Ground Wires On A Control Panel (Arcade Repair Tips) – https://www.arcaderepairtips.com/2011/07/27/connecting-ground-wires-on-a-control-panel/
• Question from Res who has a red push button on his game that will only fire occasionally and wonders if he needs to replace the button altogether.
• Question from Chad who is wondering what size hole to drill for a leaf switch based button.
  Lenox Bi-Metal Arbored Hole Saw (1-3/16″) (Amazon) – https://amzn.to/2t4EEXn
• Question from Robert that has a Defender cabinet that will work fine for 10 min then the screen starts to flickering and shows some diagonal lines.
• Question from Joe involving the potentiometers and force feedback motor on a Sega Indy 500 cabinet.
  Sega 5K Potentiometer for Driving Controls (Suzo/Happ) –
• Atari cofounder’s son Tyler Bushnell brings back retro arcades with Polycade (Venture Beat) – https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/19/atari-cofounders-son-tyler-bushnell-brings-back-retro-arcades-with-polycade/
• Nintendo Makes It Clear that Piracy Is the Only Way to Preserve Video Game History (Motherboard) – https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjm5kw/nintendo-makes-it-clear-that-piracy-is-the-only-way-to-preserve-video-game-history
• GameStop shares crater after the game retailer abandons plan to sell the company (CNBC) – https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/29/gamestop-has-decided-to-end-its-process-to-sell-the-company.html

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Arcade Repair Tips – Live Show – Episode 24

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