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Nintendo Vs. System Part 1 The MDS Board
Nintendo Vs. boards are toured area by area in the opening of a repair series, from RAM and ROM to CPU, PPU, video, audio and control circuits, to help narrow down faults.
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Arcade Laboratory
8 chosen videos. Channel on YouTube
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SNK MVS MV4F No Boot Fix
Neo Geo MV4 no boot repair begins here, with board cleaning, soldering a surface mount RAM chip and fault finding, plus talk of the custom chips, boot process and test methods.
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Sony Trinitron CRT KV G14B1 RGB Mod
Sony Trinitron KV-G14B1 gets an RGB input modification, with the maker working from schematics and showing how to adjust the RGB and sync voltages so the set is not overdriven.
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Composite Signal Waveform Introduction
A composite video signal is read on an oscilloscope, with the maker explaining blanking periods, colour burst phase and scope triggering, then tracking a bad signal on a Mega Drive 2 video adapter.
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Midway Galaga Arcade PCB Repair
Replacing sockets, reset and enable circuit chips and removing a shorted trace brings a Midway Galaga board back, using a Fluke 1090A to chase reset, ROM and RAM faults.
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Nintendo Punch Out Arcade PCB Repair
Overcurrent damage to a Nintendo Punch-Out arcade board is narrowed to the audio amplifier circuit and an LA324 chip, with repairs to battery leakage damage as well.
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Panasonic FS-A1F MSX2 Home Computer Game Console Repair
A dead Panasonic FS-A1F MSX2 comes back to life as the maker checks V9938 outputs, clock signals and RGB and sync, then replaces the main board capacitors and the hybrid audio and video chip.
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Williams Joust Controller PCB Repair Pat1 of 2
Williams Joust controller interface board has faulty player 2 controls, and the video goes through fault-finding steps plus the soldering and desoldering used for the repair, as part 1 of 2.
