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Hi!

You might check the main China TV thread - There's been some more activity there.

I've done less on EEPROM hacking than I anticipated back in March. What I really need is to learn more about microcontrollers, and stuff like using Arduinos and logic controllers to intercept the I2C and UART communications. Fascinating as all this is by itself, it would be useful for modding certain TVs for which you must enable RGB (or YUV) by flicking a firmware switch, that is factory set only, not accessible via service mode.

I ordered some bits and pieces, they have even arrived, but it'll probably be a little while before I go further into that rabbit hole. I've had other priorities like surgery and recovery related stuff. I've also needed to spend some time on GreenAntz building and development.

In the meantime, I've posted up a couple more TV mod/repair logs for you to enjoy, for a TEAC (component) and a JVC (RGB).

What else would you do in the menu?

Thanks for the question.

I'm planning another post soon covering key points of the service menu. This will include getting the colour balance and intensity right, maximising sharpness (largely by setting related values to zero/low) and a few other things. Will be back after this short break 

Heyy Zebidee! Please let us know if you have posted more improvement or mods about this China CRT TV board?

If it's in TP, you should better ask on the TP discord There are many more ppl on there than in here.

That said... All three PC's are still on the LAN when the game drops out, and can still see/ping each other. Were there car number settings you needed to change? Does this game have a service menu, or the setup is all done with config files?

Hi Rattus,

880 views, so I guess about 100 AI Bots per day are reading my thread, and none of them are trying to help me 

Yeah probably many bots but also some of us read you but didn't find a moment to post any helpful answer. Sorry for this. Usually an user that struggles to create a log in the first place scares away potential help because that's a sign that troubleshooting won't be a fluid process, but that's a nasty prejudice of mine and I should definitely spend more time helping users as I did in the past.

The lysergic log you finally posted, paired with that strange picture of what looks like the corner of the frontend, maybe added more confusion than help.

Anyway, after reading your post a second time, I believe that I now understand why you're getting a blank log. For some reason your using the "start" command to launch groovymame. This could be diverting the output somewhere else. Just cd into groovymame's folder, and run: groovymame.exe romname -v >romname.txt

----> Notice the "-v", not "v".

Frogger/Galaxian, etc. are rendered at 768x224 by MAME, to properly represent the starfield in the background. Once I see a log (which I need to see how you're system is configured), I'll be able to provide advice regarding what you should do to get these games shown properly.

880 views, so I guess about 100 AI Bots per day are reading my thread, and none of them are trying to help me 

I have sucessfully built and run 4 different Groovymame PCs in the past. But this time I have invested $1000 on a PC to run mame faster and can't get it running as it should. Seems everytime I update the mame.ini changes and gets more complicated and there is less and less help available.

I do wonder if there are maybe heaps of people reading this thread that also have no idea why my set up isn't working or why my cmd won't write a log file?

I have a cabinets networked, and for some reason they will fail network link connection. When originally booting they all show good on all three screens, however afet about 10-15 seconds they start droppinig out. Cameras are all set and working. IP's are set in the files that instructions have shown. They do connect however fail right before launching the game.

welcome to the club but might be little late to the party lol. I was doing bunch of artworks before but I didn't get an order here in like a year. not sure if people not into this hobby anymore or there are others offering on social media or something. either way good luck.

My layout has a text field that displays a games info. Sometimes the info is larger than my fields width, is there a way to do a word wrap on the field? I have space to go down but not across.

I really thought it was going to happen this time.

Son of a bit*h am I going to have to buy this valve headset now? I was hoping for glasses at this point. Is it even that much better than quest 3? This will be like my 13th headset. When can I get off this headset treadmill.