Live Show – Episode 55 – Target Signals And Smart Power
This Live Show episode was broadcast live on Thursday, September 9, 2021. 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 Marc who has a Street Fighter III 2nd Impact Giant Attack arcade game that’s will fire up and play for one match and then the screen will start fading in and out to black.
- Question from Tyson about a Smart Industries Prize Time claw machine that needs a new power supply but he’s having trouble finding where to purchase a replacement.
Coastal Amusements Power Supply (Betson) –
Repairing Switching Power Supplies (New Life Games) – - Question from Steve who has a Target Toss Pro that he’s trying to replace the original CRT monitor with an LCD monitor in but when he hooks it up to the VGA output of the board he gets a no signal message.
Target Toss Pro Manual (Primetime Amusements) – - Question from Brian that involves his arcade monitor showing a heavy red, green or blue color tint when he turns it on. Sometimes the tint goes away by itself and sometimes percussive maintenance (smacking the side of the machine) can fix it as well.
- Question from Warrior Frenzy who is having trouble locating the DIP switches on his Pac-Man arcade game.
Pac-Man DIP Switch Settings (KLOV) – - Question from GIGAtyWING who is trying to turn up the sound on his arcade game but can’t find the adjustment knob any where.
- Question from Philippe who is looking for a flyback transformer for his Makvision M3129DS-LG.
Makvision M3129 Flyback (Arcadeshop) – https://bit.ly/as-m3129-flyback - Question from therexershow who wonders if it’s OK to use smart outlets with arcade game and turn them on and off with a smart phone app.
- Tim’s Tech Tip: Use a 35V 100mf cap on the power switch header pins on a PC motherboard to automatically turn it on
- Atari’s collapse cost us this exquisite-looking Laserdisc game (Ars Technica) – https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/ataris-collapse-cost-us-this-exquisite-looking-laserdisc-game/
- Game Over For Deeproot Pinball? (Pinball News) – https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2021/08/21/game-over-for-deeproot-pinball/
- Cactus Canyon Remake Confirmed (Pinball News) – https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2021/08/21/cactus-canyon-remake-confirmed/
- Another instance of Arcade1Up cabinets being used in a commercial environment found (Chaz’s Arcade) – https://www.facebook.com/ArcadeRepairTips/posts/10158758802322961
- NES and SNES designer retires from Nintendo after nearly 40 years (Engadget) – https://www.engadget.com/nes-snes-designer-lance-barr-retires-145657155.html
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Live Show – Episode 55 – Target Signals And Smart Power
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