Jan 152015
 

Sync troubles, i.e. rolling/flickering picture,curved sides, etc.., on your beloved arcade PCBs?

Now the “sync stabilizer”, copyright by ‘MARTINJONESTECHNOLOGY’, beats ’em all !

Today I assembled on a stripboard this little circuit and installed it in my supergun.It really fixed all my sync issues with my troublesome boards (mostly bootlegs) which I never been able to solve in other way (trying, for example, the LM1881 sync stripper/cleaner)

Circuit is simple to do (but very effective),it requires only few common components.Technically speaking, it doesn’t modify the sync signal frequency but only the horizontal pulses lenght bringing them back in the broadcast standards.

sync_stabilizer

For bill of materials and other technical explanations, I refer you to the official page of the creator:

https://martin-jones.com/2014/09/16/that-syncing-feeling-classic-arcade-games-that-wont-stay-still/

I highly recommend you to give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

 Posted by at 9:23 pm

SEGA NAOMI multi BIOS

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Jan 042015
 

P1pkin has released his NAOMI/NAOMI2 multi BIOS for everyone.

By changing the dipswitches you can change the region of your system
DSW2 DSW3
OFF OFF Japan
ON OFF USA
OFF ON Export
ON ON Korea

Original thread can be found here

Download Here

Thanks very much to P1pkin for this.

 Posted by at 1:50 pm

ABI Chipmaster Pro – FAIL!

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Jan 022015
 

Here is a sad fact and its one I picked up on quite a while ago when I compared the Chipmaster Pro to my Boardmaster 4000.
Both of these devices test the Z80 CPU out of circuit yet the Chipmaster Pro seldom gives a PASS result where as the Boardmaster always gave me a true PASS or FAIL result.
I bring this up now as Andrew96 reminded me of this issue and has even made a short video of it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCA_KPoa18I&feature=youtu.be

As he states, ABI refuse to fix this problem and that is just unacceptable.
Be warned before you shell out a good amount of cash on one of these devices. You can’t even add your own test without spending another load of cash on the extra software.

Im glad I never paid much for mine.

 Posted by at 12:33 pm

705 entries!

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Dec 242014
 

Today we passed a milestone. Over 700 entires are now in the archive.
There are most likely more dumps than entries as some unknown ones are in ZIP files as a set.

Thank you everyone who has contributed over the past 3.5 years that this project has been running.
Please keep submitting them if you have them.

 Posted by at 8:19 pm