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Hi guys,

I'm an arcade game lover from Norfolk, mainly into shmups.
I've been able to get a couple of PCBs over the last year or so; Sky Shark, and a couple of Psikyo games.
My favourite arcade game by far is Ketsui, but I doubt I'll ever be able to own the original pcb (too expensive!); I'm hoping to go up to the Arcade Club in Bury at some point, as I'm sure it'd be awesome to play it on a real cab.
I've also got a "decent" collection of CRTs which I've been accruing over the past couple of years, currently got a 20" monitor set up vertically on my desk for shmups, and it's amazing.
It's the closest I can get to owning a cab at the minute lol

Glad to be here!
 
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Now you are here you should be able to acquire a suitable arcade cabinet either with or without game board/ monitor at a fair price and maybe local to you? as members on the forum offer them for sale quite often as they upgrade or run out of space for fresh ones?
 
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Thanks for the warm welcome!

Now you are here you should be able to acquire a suitable arcade cabinet either with or without game board/ monitor at a fair price and maybe local to you?
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Are there many guys here from the east of England? I did see @Wahoobies' post from the other day, https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/candy-in-north-norfolk.85269/ , I didn't expect someone to have such a nice setup around here!

Have you looked into getting Ketsui as a PGM cart? Of course if you're not fussed about an actual PCB, it's on more modern consoles now too.
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I have, got one of those bootleg carts coming soon.
I've heard that they tend to have some dodgy wiring, and I think the problem is in the way that the boards convert 5V to 3.3V for some of the ICs (they use 2 diodes and apparently that overvolts some of the chips, or something).
Since I got the cart from aliexpress, I ordered a couple of mini buck converters with it, so I'm planning on bodging one of those in to hopefully convert the voltages properly.

I have got it on PS4 which is what I normally play on, and while it's great there (with its built-in leaderboard and gadgets and other stuff), surely nothing beats the real deal ;)
 
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Yeah I need to take a look at mine actually, so I'd be interested in how you get on with those convertors - you are spot on with the voltage issue. I have a DDP-DOJ that has lines on the backgrounds just at the start of the stages, by the ends they are fine.
I have the full suite of these, including a Ketsui with the trap mod and a physical toggle switch on the cart which is 'interesting' :cool:
 
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Flinnster said:
Yeah I need to take a look at mine actually, so I'd be interested in how you get on with those convertors - you are spot on with the voltage issue. I have a DDP-DOJ that has lines on the backgrounds just at the start of the stages, by the ends they are fine.
I have the full suite of these, including a Ketsui with the trap mod and a physical toggle switch on the cart which is 'interesting' :cool:
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Just recieved the cart the other day, seems to work totally fine :unsure:
I was expecting this one to be a new pcb (like one of these https://www.igspgm.com/pcb/ketsui_conversion_pcbs/index.htm), but it ended up being a conversion, so it doesn't look too dodgy (although there was one EPROM with an uncovered erase window, so had to tape over that).
I did spot the double diode bodge that I was dreading, I've heard that it drops 5V down to 3.6V, but looking at the datasheet of that Macronix chip, it claims it has an input voltage tolerance of ±10%, so it might be "fine"?

Here's some pics of the boards in mine, does your cart look similar?
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