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2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« on: January 16, 2020, 08:35:17 am »
Got these today,
Been waiting for Kraut Busters since march last year so now had a good chuffing start to the year :D


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2020, 11:46:51 pm »
Turn based rpgs are an excellent way to kill time on an exercise bike.  16 hours of pedaling later, I’ve finally defeated Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2020, 08:27:11 pm »
Turn based rpgs are an excellent way to kill time on an exercise bike.  16 hours of pedaling later, I’ve finally defeated Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.



This is a fantastic idea. I only watch shows (Jack Ryan Season 2 right now). What's some good ones to play? I didn't like any of the FF after III.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2020, 03:22:35 pm »
Right now, I'm working on Chrono Trigger.  My SNES took a dump in the 90s so I missed a lot of the games on it.  Takes more interaction than Mystic Quest but still doable while biking.  I'd be pounding the A button with one hand, texting with the other, and pedaling during some portions of Mystic Quest.  Not gonna happen with this one.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2020, 06:42:16 pm »
I planned to work out the details (in the workshop) of installing a linear actuator on my TV antenna to adjust for seasonal atmospheric changes.  The weather was nice enough to go up on the roof and complete the project. Chuffed to get this done in February instead of waiting until summer.

Been a long time since playing with an actuator.  It was fun.



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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2020, 11:12:15 pm »
Finally got my wonky copy of Dragon Warrior working, several pins were very worn.  This is the copy I played as a kid so it was sentimental. 

Found a YouTube video where a guy repaired an edge connector on an arcade board by melting solder on the pin and the wiping it off with his bare finger. Yeah, don't do that. I feel like I was trolled.

Anyway, I did his solder wipe (with rag) and got it from a red or white screen to booting kinda sorta. So then I took a sharp pocket knife and scraped each pin from top to bottom. Several times, trying to get them smooth and uniform.

Then some alcohol wipes.

Now, with a firm insertion, it's working fine on my top loader and 2 clones.









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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2020, 11:22:06 pm »
Is that a Nintendo Power freebie?  I remember getting it and I played the crap out of it.  Then I was like "Yup I never have to play another straight rpg again."

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2020, 11:27:54 pm »
Nope, one of the suckers that paid retail for this.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2020, 11:37:21 pm »
Eh I don't think it's a bad purchase either way.  I enjoyed it, I just realized later that other rpgs were essentially the same damn game and I was done with level grinding for life.   :cheers:

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2020, 05:22:07 am »
Is that a Nintendo Power freebie?  I remember getting it and I played the crap out of it.  Then I was like "Yup I never have to play another straight rpg again."

I still have my free copy!

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2020, 10:48:56 am »
The random battles don't bother me so much now like they did when I was a kid.  Kind of soothing in a weird way, I guess.  Dragon Warrior has some weird clunk in the interface - it's like going back to the really old point and click adventures and having to specific on the correct verb rather than just clicking the action button.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2020, 03:07:51 pm »
Picked up some new fun at an auction. CRTs with vacuum tubes, should be fun. Top one is a TV, record player, radio combo. I was able to get snow on it. Bottom one I am getting a Halo.




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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2020, 03:24:46 pm »
Wow those things are cool looking.  Really good condition too (besides non-working CRTs)

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2020, 03:33:19 pm »
Yeah, it was maintained by a tv/film studio for years as art, so I jumped on it. $120 for both. Hopefully I can get them going. I plan to do my entire living room in a mid-century motif.

If they are easy enough to fix, I might throw some vintage tv on a loop that plays through a pi or something, so you get appropriate era television when you turn it on. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2020, 03:42:25 pm »
Have you considered a....

I might throw some vintage tv on a loop that plays through a pi

Yes, yes you have.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2020, 05:51:37 pm »
I'm jealous over that vintage haul.  Around here you'll see one of those sets beat to hell with a hole in the side and all the electronics gone with a $300 price tag on it.  At $120 I'd take the things and run before they changed their mind. 

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2020, 06:34:19 pm »
Right now, I'm working on Chrono Trigger.  My SNES took a dump in the 90s so I missed a lot of the games on it.  Takes more interaction than Mystic Quest but still doable while biking.  I'd be pounding the A button with one hand, texting with the other, and pedaling during some portions of Mystic Quest.  Not gonna happen with this one.

 :cheers:
Is this your first chrono trigger playthrough? My all time favorite game

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2020, 08:38:42 am »
Around here you'll see one of those sets beat to hell with a hole in the side and all the electronics gone with a $300 price tag on it. 

We get that ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- around here also.  People think because its the only one they know of for 25 miles it must be the last one on Earth.

Or we get the "I checked eBay" line.  Yeah.  They are on eBay mother scratcher but theirs has been refurbished and is in working condition and worth the $300.  Yours has a family of raccoons living in it....
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2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #18 on: February 26, 2020, 11:54:42 pm »
Ok, that Lock N Chase I picked up in CA had some sprite issues. The game works and all, but a few items, like the car that drops Lupin off, was all scrambled. I took out the PCB and I saw an EPROM that looked like this...



Crazy, right?

I ordered a new set of blank EPROMs from ArcadePartsandRepair.com and burned a replacement. Popped it in, fired it up, and...



Sweet! This bad boy is going to ZapCon! And now I have a...

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2020, 03:23:12 am »
WOW that chip is FUBAR!

Good work man :)

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2020, 07:53:02 am »
WOW that chip is FUBAR!

Good work man :)

I know, right? I’m kind of curious what caused that kind of damage.
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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2020, 09:07:23 am »
WOW that chip is FUBAR!

Good work man :)

I know, right? I’m kind of curious what caused that kind of damage.

Looks like it was attacked by a wood pecker lol

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2020, 09:20:03 am »
WOW that chip is FUBAR!

Good work man :)

I know, right? I’m kind of curious what caused that kind of damage.

Looks like it was attacked by a wood pecker lol

I replaced another one next to it that wasn’t as bad but still had a hole...



So I just need to do some touch up painting, but this one is ZapCon-ready.
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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2020, 01:05:01 pm »
The hole is for UV erasure right?

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #24 on: February 27, 2020, 01:28:25 pm »
The hole is for erasure right?

You better believe it, girlfriend.






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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2020, 01:46:39 pm »
The hole is for UV erasure right?

Huh.  Just learnt something new today.

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« Reply #26 on: February 27, 2020, 03:18:19 pm »
The hole is for UV erasure right?

Yeah but its usually smaller and covered lol

And not chewed up lol

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2020, 03:31:49 pm »
The hole is for UV erasure right?

Yes. I have an industrial eraser to wipe them and a burner to write them.

They are usually covered with a sticker or something to protect them, but none of these have a sticker over the window (although they do have factory stickers identifying them.)
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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #28 on: February 28, 2020, 08:41:02 am »
I feel sorry for the guy that lost this little beauty but I found a working 20v Dewalt drill in the middle of the road on the way to work.  It looks like most of the damage is superficial and was sustained during the fall onto the road.




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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2020, 01:16:42 pm »
Ive had a few 8 bit pick ups the last week :D





Both working great, Only problem being that the famicom shows in B&W on my CRT tv’s so can only really play that one on the little flat screen I have dug out of the loft.

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #30 on: March 16, 2020, 03:17:56 pm »
*fap fap fap*

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #31 on: March 16, 2020, 03:56:57 pm »
*fap fap fap*
Power glove for ultimate fapping ;)

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« Reply #32 on: March 16, 2020, 08:08:03 pm »
If only that dude had kept his power glove off her, pal, huh?

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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2020, 08:46:17 pm »
Passed my first corona virus check point.


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Re: 2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2020, 09:20:21 pm »
Found out a sort of remake of The Ninja Warriors exists on SNES and I think it's literally impossible without cheating. There's a program called Game Genie Guy that will patch ROMs and even with infinite health I had to consult a faq to figure out the final boss.

Anyway, one more down....


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« Reply #35 on: March 30, 2020, 10:00:28 pm »
Got some toilet paper and paper towels today.  Not great brands but at least it felt less like the end of the world today.

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« Reply #36 on: March 31, 2020, 02:42:32 am »
LOL ultimate score PBJ!

I picked up a mister setup the other day, I have been watching the project for quite some time and decided now is the time to get in on it.

Been having some fun with it, Especially getting to plsy some of the stuff that I normally dont/cant such as Amiga and ST games.

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« Reply #37 on: March 31, 2020, 10:53:28 pm »
I finally picked up a Gyruss PCB. Its new home will be my Time Pilot cab. Gyruss is stereo so I will probably mount a second speaker on top of the cab. Maybe I will incorporate it into some kind of topper. I got a Kicker PCB with no sound as part of the deal.
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« Reply #38 on: April 03, 2020, 04:55:01 am »
Score.
Gyruss was always (still is) a favorite.

Never did get to play Kicker though (had to even look up what it was in fact.)
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« Reply #39 on: April 04, 2020, 09:04:17 am »
Had these 2 lil beauts arrive today to expand my HNG 64 collection:







Just need a Samurai Showdown 64 cart now