Live Show – Episode 117 – Trying to Focus Without the Shock

This Live Show episode was broadcast live on Thursday, November 5, 2026. For more information on the show, please visit our YouTube page at https://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 Greg (a.k.a. therexershow) about a Centipede machine with a monitor that will boot up to purple and sometimes goes solid white.
• Question from Trikun who has a Prize Crazy Toy 2 crane machine that’s showing a claw overheating error on the screen.
• Question from Thomas who has a Califonia Speed arcade game that says unable to load sounds files on boot up.
  Compact Flash Cards (Arcade Services) – https://www.arcadeservices.com/compact-flash-cards.html
• Question from Damien who has a Star Trek Voyager arcade game where everything works but there’s a big red overlay on the screen that says Not Authorized.
  Bypassing the Dallas DS1991 Key on a Star Trek Voyager Arcade (Mike’s Tech Blog) – https://oerinet.net/blog/bypassing-the-dallas-ds1991-key-on-a-star-trek-voyager-arcade/
  We need to hack this holodeck program! Let’s fix Star Trek Voyager: The Arcade Game! (74XX Arcade Repair) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jqok75TnD0
• Question from diyapia who wonders if it’s possible to adjust the focus on a Donkey Kong monitor without getting shocked.
• Houston Arcade Expo 2026 – https://www.houstonarcadeexpo.com/
• The Weirdest Video Games Were Hacks (Hackaday) – https://hackaday.com/2026/10/10/the-weirdest-video-games-were-hacks/
• Sega Amusements Teases New ‘House Of The Dead Reawakened’ Arcade VR Game (Arcade Heroes) – https://arcadeheroes.com/2026/09/30/sega-house-of-the-dead-reawakened/
• The car you beat up in that Street Fighter 2 bonus level is now real, and you can win it (Event Hubs) – https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2026/oct/08/car-contest-street-fighter-2/
• ‘That man is playing ‘Galaga”: 45 years of the iconic sci-fi arcade shooter (Space) – https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/galaga-at-45-how-the-classic-arcade-shooter-became-a-gaming-icon
• ‘We were almost dead’: NeoGeo boss reveals forced redesign behind AES+ delay (Video Games Chronicle) – https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-were-almost-dead-neogeo-boss-reveals-forced-redesign-behind-aes-delay/

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Live Show – Episode 117 – Trying to Focus Without a Shock

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