NES4Life cab collection

[guddler]

There's a very quick vertical line on the odd explosion but everything else is perfect.

That's pretty much normal. It's not correct, obviously but it's so common as to not be worth worrying about. It usually happens when one or more of the 191 counters in the X/Y stage just before it goes to the DACs (sorry, I forget the name) have been replaced and so you have a mix of different manufacturers. Replacing all 6 of the chips for new ones of the same make usually fixes it.

That's in my experience anyway. It can be other things too I'm sure. Or could be one or more of them going bad.

But bottom line, ignore it unless it gets worse.

 

[Nes4life]

Cheers Guddler, top advice as usual; and quite interesting to boot. It's not that noticeable or a bother so I'll leave it. If it ever has some major rework then I'll get it seen to.

Next I'm going to replace / fix the marquee light (I assume there's one up there) and I think only one speaker is working (all sounds seem to come out or the right side). Tonight I'll open up the top and have a nose at what's there. With a working screen and pcb this feels like a nice mainly 'cosmetic' project; what a relief! Famous last words.

 

[Nes4life]

Had a good evening today with family over.

 

[_Matt_]

Good stuff. Love seeing kids on the old games. Except mine that is. I turn my cabs off when I hear my kids coming down the stairs then turn them back on when they go back up to their room. Once they get on them I can't get a go! Yeah, I'm a bad dad

 

[Hurray Banana]

Nice little setup there, space for a couple more cabs in there

, with a bit of shuffling

 

[LAZORIAN]

looks like you are doing a grand job to educate the younger generation.
Top work Phil

 

[Nes4life]

Definitely space for more! And when this side of the room is full I can move out the kids toys and double the number of cabs

Behind where I took the photo is the same space again.

 

[Hurray Banana]

Definitely space for more! And when this side of the room is full I can move out the kids toys and double the number of cabs

Behind where I took the photo is the same space again.

Nice

 

[Nintendo Arcade]

Great set up there Phil
It's a good feeling when others are enjoying your games.

 

[Mr20to5]

Saw this over on Twitter, great photo, everyone is properly engrossed in the games. It's great to see everyone enjoying themselves playing on your cabs.

 

[subzero]

something made me laff, ur forum name is nes4life and u have a sega mega tech cab lol

still....six cabs more than me - good job!

 

[Nes4life]

Yeah I know! I wanted a complementary cab to the Playchoice.
Still, like @ChuckieEgg, if you cut me i bleed Nintendo!

 

[t-m]

Looking good mate :-D

 

[Nes4life]

New monitor surround arrived today

someone sprayed the old one black!!







Started restoring the power brick too. One more round of sanding and then I'll prime and spray it.









Bought some replacement Big Blues too!

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[maskeddev]

I've seen this collection with my own eyes. A great collection for a great bloke!

And if you ever need some space, there's a couple of cabs there I proper love....

 

[LAZORIAN]

Looking great Phil, nice to see an Asteroids being restored

 

[Hurray Banana]

Looking nice Phil, will need to do this with my tempest brick at some point

 

[Nes4life]

Primed and sprayed! Halfords own 'grey primer' and 'aluminium' spray paint for those who want to know. Next step is replacing all the spade connectors etc.

 

[LAZORIAN]

I think I can see a 1mm blemish in the top right corner Phil better do it all again...

But seriously that does look lovely.

I used that paint for my PPos steering wheel it has a nice finish.

Nice one mate.

 

[strykr]

come up nice Phil,

. but yeah as ian said, there is spec of dust top right, best get the sandpaper out