Greetings from Texas

ginoscope

Kuroko's Training Dummy
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Hey everyone first I am glad to be part of the community I really enjoyed the noob testing and being limited to post. Now that I can see pictures I feel liberated.

A little about myself is I am a software developer but not in the game industry. I have been a gamer since the Nes days.

I have a real passion for fixing broken consoles and making them work again. I fixed a console for a friend of a friend and that is how I got involved with the neo geo. I had rented an aes as a teen and played some of the games on the wii but that was as much as I played of the neo geo.

A couple weeks back this friend being super happy with what I had done for him found a big red that was not working. He offered it for me free of charge with 5 games. I was honestly shocked but goes to show there are good people still in this hobby.

I'm slowly working on getting the big red working. I have cleaned it and I got it working blind. I think the monitor chassis needs a rebuild.

Here are some day 1 and present pics of the cab. It is a 2 slot board.

http://imgur.com/a/TMpT6
 

WoodyXP

Setsuna's Owl Keeper,
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AJtheMishima

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nice, more texas folk, seems more ppl in the Dallas area. I was over that way this weekend very briefly.
 

cyd

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Looks to be the standard k7000, not bad to work on. Or if you just want it fixed, Chad at arcadecup.com has never let me down.
 

ginoscope

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Looks to be the standard k7000, not bad to work on. Or if you just want it fixed, Chad at arcadecup.com has never let me down.

Thanks for the tip I will look him up. I get power all the way up to the arcade chassis so I am suspecting a bad flyback since all the fuses look fine.
 

Gyrian

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nice, more texas folk, seems more ppl in the Dallas area. I was over that way this weekend very briefly.

My perception was that the higher number was further down south. :D
One more for Fort Worth! Welcome, ginoscope!
 

gallo

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Nov 27, 2015
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Hi man!

You can definitely restore that Big Red. It looks to be in decent condition. I have seen vinyl decals to replace on the side panels after refinishing. Go to town and have fun!
 

AJtheMishima

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My perception was that the higher number was further down south. :D
One more for Fort Worth! Welcome, ginoscope!

Yeah, as far as i know there is me and grimmy in houston. Think there is a new member that just joined from houston, forget his name. But other than that dont know of any other memebers. Most seem to be in dallas, and I notice on NGFL most of the texas ppl are from dallas.
Not sure how many Austin cats we have in here, i know unofficalguy

edit- Joe is over in collegestation, almost forgot about you dude lol
 
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Montatez

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Hello and welcome! Enjoy your stay. And good luck on the restoration!

Edit: I used Chad at arcadecup to fix my monitor chassis on my wells gardner 19v for my Space invaders cocktail table. He did a good job and runs like a champ now! For being a 36 year old board that was in a smoke filled bar covered in beer and whatever else...
 
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