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If you play ONWARD VR (the mil. sim.) somewhat regularly. And are tired of kids, ---uvulas---, racists, MAGA, BLM, ANTIFA, NAZIs, singing, burping, farting, into the microphones. We want to add 2 more people. Our server, the youngest is 30, majority is in their 40's, some 50's.
We play religiously on the weekends for about 1 hour. We start at 3pm EST. It's an odd hour because of Europeans. For them it's about 21:00. But we also have some from California they play 12pm PST? (I think). We've been playing for over 4 years now, so we would prefer people that want to commit. But we'll take it if someone can do it occasionally (we'll just let in more).

Some people that joined us in the past say we are not bad for bunch of older guys, so get ready to get "spanked". Unless you have superior tactics and can show us a thing or two! We are ready for a challenge. However if you brand new we don't judge or discriminate. Play, until you're better.

If you're interested look for Discord server: Old Fogies Onward Server and get in touch with ZectionAte (he is the owner of the server). Tell him that gr0bda or MP sent you. (Beside me, they're not into Arcade games so probably don't hope to find arcade buddy there.)

I'll let the post marinade for couple of days here and I'll move on to Facebook if no one is interested

EDIT: Forgot to add, must be 40+ to join! (Reason I'm here first. No more 30 year olds)

In search of ever more elusive thrills, I recently picked up an Atari 7800+ from Woot/Amazon for $60.  Don't pay $120, they've been alternating who has it for $60 for 3 months.

I helped Atarimatt with his game Spice Harvester, which is featured here:



If you watch closely you may see an "Inspected by Pinballjim" credit on it.  It's actually a pretty fun game, and he's sold a few dozen copies which is cool.

Also been up to this nonsense, courtesy of karri on Atari-Age:



https://forums.atariage.com/topic/357465-diy-2600-flash-cart-with-a-raspberry-pico/

A modern microcontroller emulating a 32kB eprom plugged into an Android box running an Atari emulator may be peak absurdity, but it's been fun.

7800 is this weird console of crap with occasional flashes of life.  Probably could have been a serious contender if they hadn't gone cheap on it.  Never saw one as a kid, so it's been interesting.

 

Atari

On my arcade PC I have 14100F. I wonder how will work on this processor.

EDIT. Time Crisis II stil works slow even on this processor.

smooth job on those trace repairs! and great thread overall, thank you.

Thank you Butters!

There's one more thing I'd like to cover before closing off on this project, the "width capacitor".


WIDTH CAPACITOR


These TVs all have the same basic layout, and somewhere near the yoke pins, flyback and HOT you can find capacitor, usually a brown polypropylene high voltage type, with a value of around 334 (330nF) to 684(680nF)-ish. Changing the value of the capacitor can change the width by up to 1-2cm. Mostly I want to bring it in a little.

Now yes, I feel a bit lazy calling it the "width capacitor", and of course there are other capacitors involved in screen width. Sometimes there is more than one cap there (capacitors in parallel add values). But for now that's what I'm calling it, and it is pretty easy to identify.


     



So, this TCL TV had a 364 width cap. I changed that for a 474, and gained an extra 6-8mm on each side, so roughly 1.5cm clawed back from the overscan region.

Compare the following before-and-after pics from the Nokia test screen at 720x480i. One on the left has the 364 cap, one on the right has the 474 cap.



 



Finally, here are some pics of a game in action, and the frontend menu screen. See how the sides have been pulled in more? That bowing or wobble on the right side has lessened too.

While I was in there I found a nearby capacitor with a cold solder join, so reflowed that, may have helped a little with that bowing too. I used my Dick Smith ESR meter to check that cap, and all the other electrolytic caps around nearby and in the power supply, but found nothing suspicious.



   



I could try to squeeze those last few horizontal pixels out of overscan by going up to a 564 (560nF) width capacitor, but I am happy with the outcomes already. So, I call that a win and stop there for now as I have other pressing matters.

Oh, and those zener diodes for input protection - I changed them from 6.8v to 12v. I'm imagining that the black levels look better. Will update the schematic diagram above later.

I'll leave you with one last pic - At the back, I swapped the red and green connectors to their correctly labelled positions. Made the connections a bit sturdier too.







Peace 

width cap

Sorry for the delay. Yes, I did update the both DemulShooter and the plugin.

I had someone asking me the same question for the same issue a couple of days ago.
It turned out that the new plugin dll has a different name than the older one and he just copied over the new BepInEx folder without removing the old one before

And ended up with 2 plugin dll files messing with each other
Removing the bepinex folder before updating fixed it

Can you check that ?

Great work and like you say they don't take up that much space

Please post some build pics when you get the chance 

A quick update (V0.962b) to fix an annoying bug I introduced, where the 'Coming Up' message icon was prevented from being displayed.
I've also changed the method for updating texts in all displays, to populate the displays even if not currently visible (so when they become visible, they have correct values already prepared) - marginally quicker.
I've also tweaked the mini-media display transparency, so if no video is playing, the queue / popular lists display more clearly.
Also fixed the sound-effect volume calculations, so sound effects should now more accurately respect the jukebox.ini volume settings.

Link here:
VideoJuke - 0.962b

smooth job on those trace repairs! and great thread overall, thank you.