Temperature cycling is what kills PCB's and in an arcade environment the game is running 24/7 and it gets toasty inside. Pull the whole cpu out and even though the solder joint might LOOK ok doesn't ...
I am not an expert on ParaPara but I am very familiar with ibuttons and how they work. An ibutton is a one wire serial device. (Other side is ground) Inside the can is a small chip. I bet the mode ...
I was wondering if anybody has sucessfully made an image of their Beatmania (or any konami) hard drive for backup purposes? It's easy to do the roms but the drive doesn't have a partition table and m ...