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pbj:
So, my copy of Fatal Fury Special arrived a day earlier than expected.
Case is a little rough and no manual but for $27 shipped I’m good with it.
Had a few heart stopping minutes where it wasn’t doing anything. Cleaned the cartridge slot with a rag and some lighter fluid and I’m thankfully in business. Have not had any problems with the system resetting and I’ve let it run a couple of hours. If the problem with this was a low voltage power supply and a dirty connector, then I made out okay on it. ($280 shipped as “occasionally resets”)
Anyway, Fatal Fury Special is a beautiful game and my home brew memory card is working fine.
I’d be very curious to learn more about the stiffer spring. I’m also replacing this tiny 30mm ball top with a 35mm.
Mono sound out of the back of the console is complete BS and I lasted about ten seconds before I hooked up a headphone to RCA adapter in the headphone port.
Always tough to photograph this TV but you get the idea….
:cheers:
pbj:
Cracked open the joystick, stretched out the spring, and replaced the ball top with the white one I had laying around.
I don’t hate the white….
Definitely not going back to 30mm.
pbj:
So, here's the damage with taxes, shipping, and rounded up to the nearest dollar. Only thing I didn't have to buy was a power supply.
I chopped and flipped the wires off a trash pile supply meant for an external hard drive. So add another $10-15 if you need that.
Price Item
$281 AES Console
$103 161 AES Cart & Shockbox
$70 AES Joystick
$45 Aftermarket Memory Card
$27 Fatal Fury Special Cart & Shockbox
$8 M27C1024 EPROM (10 pack)
$6 AV cable
$4 10' extension cable
$3 40 pin socket (10 pack)
$2 Black ball top
$549
:dizzy:
pbj:
Well, this arrived. Some games working great, some with weird vertical lines but still working. Not sure what to make of it.
:dunno
BadMouth:
--- Quote from: pbj on September 01, 2022, 11:45:37 am ---Phones can do anything except hold me at night and take photos of things up close
--- End quote ---
Get a magnifier app. I can't ever get clear pics of chips with the regular camera, but the magnifier app works great. It even keeps the light on while taking the pic.
The one I use is by app2u, but it is from a time when you could just pay a couple bucks and not be bothered with ads or location tracking. The newest version appears to be all in on those things.
EDIT: Curious about how the app could focus when the default camera app couldn't, I played around with it a bit. I think the trick is that the app starts out zoomed in (digitally) so you hold the phone further away. If I hold the phone a few inches further away and zoom in with the default camera app, I get results almost as good, but with pinch to zoom it takes two hands. I still like the app better.
Double edit: Using default camera app zoom in before even pointing the camera at the object. It works fine. Make sure the camera is set to macro.
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