I'm gonna cry now

[alandrogers]

See the pic below.. .Long time since I've been on here. A couple months ago I was looking for some answers about CP design and what not.

I finally got the CP done, spent the last couple of weeks making it all work with the front end. I had to go with GameEx cause I couldn't get anything else to work. Ok, other things would work, but not work 100%, or had some kinds of problems, etc etc.

Major KUDOS to AtomicFE for the plug n play emulators for C64 ,Amiga. Wow. Those just fired right up and worked (ok, I had to make one little tweak to the rom type...) In the end, though, I went with GameEx for other reasons.

I don't know what happened with MameWah .. it used to work for me ... but .. this time ... i just got tired of pulling my hair out.

Anyway.. sad story ... like I said, I had it all spread out in the computer room, the CP, the monitor, the PC... tweaking the hardware and software.

After I finally got it working, I spent Friday night installing it all in the cabinet (see pic below, sans smoke plexi front).

Then .. last night (Saturday) ... I had the CP turned upside down putting hinges on it. And it slipped.. and dropped down hanging in front of the cab .. hanging by the PS2 connection on the miniPac.

And it ripped the connector off the board. (  BWAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Hopefully my local electronic supply store will have a replacement I can just solder back in.

If not, I'll figure something else out, cause I already invited the friends over next weekend for the grand opening party.

I know. I'm just looking for sympathy here.. but it feels good to dump.

[SavannahLion]

desolder the keyboard passthru and swap it over until you can find a replacement.

[alandrogers]

that was actually my first thought... but i had such a problem unsoldering the first one... didn't want to mess up the other one. I don't have a bulb or braid or anything like that around here anymore.

but if the elec. store doesn't have one, I'll get some desolder braid instead, and then it shouldn't be too bad a job.

[Nightmare03]

Just get some speaker wire or similar, twist it, smooth some flux over it and use it as desoldering braid 

Your only using it for a few pins so it should work fine, i do it all the time (because im cheap)

Good luck!

[alandrogers]

ok.. thanks for that last tip.. never thought about that... i managed to pick up a ps2 connector at norvac for $1 ... soldered it in and everything's all hunky dory now.

[Kaytrim]

Nice repair job.

[bfauska]

congrats.

Have a good party with your new cab.