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You should go to the TP discord, to Boom's channels, and ask a few polite questions

I'm not sure whether you still do need multiple files, vincerplay might have updated things, but i have the games i want running and thought i would share

That rom is 7.5MB so it’s going to need some sort of mapper to work.  I’m very curious to see how they manage it.  Supposedly there’s $25ish bootlegs of Demons of Asteborg so I guess someone in China figured it out.

This is the pcb used for Aliexpress Earthion. I don't find info about that chip AA*

Would it be great and possible to compile for the 32-bit version? WinXP and such?
Thanks for the initiative Sailor, it was excellent.

I have a functional Emerald with working key. Would love to help you dump the key data.

Getting it working again was a fun little adventure... The drive was completely dead. Thankfully the recoveries you previously dumped actually contain enough to get started from an unformatted drive -- just slightly hidden in the 1.44MB boot image

Thanks! I actually modeled it in 3ds Max; I import parts of it to perform Boolean operations and then export everything back into Max. Max is very bad at Booleans.

I like to 3D print all my prototypes in ABS because it's so easy to chop things up and glue them back together with an ABS/Acetone slurry. A thinner viscosity works well for surface finishing too. One of the neater fabrication techniques I worked with this time around was reinforcing portions of the case with aluminum bars using a JB Weld formulation. Lots of heat nut inserts throughout for things like the hinges, speakers, and latch posts. Other than that it's about two weeks, on and off, worth of sanding, priming and painting. As I change stuff I update the files, always working towards a V2.

I have a video on the Vewlix countercades I built that details a lot of the same processes I used for this case:


It's starved for views so please check it out!

The adjustment to the color scheme of the CP looks great btw.

I agree the Blip 2.0 is too big.  Maybe it could be reduced in size with the 2.0 arranged like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_2.0

Alright... I finally got motivated enough to cut a panel in the driveway today. It's not much but I made this:







This panel isn't even part of the cabinet but it will be used to cut recesses into the side panels with a 1/4" deep pattern bit that I just ordered. I laid it on top if the cabinet so you can see the effect.

There's a minor issue I'm not sure how to deal with... the bit I ordered is 3/4" wide because I wanted the corners to be more rounded than they are with the 1/2" bit I used to make the pattern. But the triangle area on the top is going to look weird because the wider bit can't fit in the corner. As it is now with the 1/2" bit, the corner does not line up with the cutouts below. See what I mean:



The 3/4" bit really can't get in there. Any ideas? I'm not good enough with a chisel and hand tools to make it look nice. Maybe it doesn't matter...

So next step is to cut out a panel for the bottom third of the side panel, which will be raised instead of recessed, and duplicate it. Going to try and squeeze that in tomorrow. Saturday is shot because I have to take kid #1 (of Bella's Arcade fame) back to BU but Sunday and Monday should be relatively open so fingers crossed I get some time - I have to paint by end of September before the weather turns and this entire project is going to live or die by the paint job.... 

Hi,
I'm looking for a used 4 player coin door with mechs. Please let me know if you have one for sale. Thanks.