Sun Tzu’s Awesome Tips On Arcade Game

When we first started All You Can Arcade, it was a little on religion. We were confident that people would want to let arcade games from the month, but truth be toldwe had no clue how to work on them. Before we knew it our launch was a month off and we'd managed to accumulate about 100 matches, but only 10 of those worked!
All of our monitors will display a scrambled picture on the screen. It was super frustrating because we had no clue how to fix it. We nearly missed our launching, but we eventually clued in on what exactly was causing our probablem when we learned about monitor sync 101 and recognized that they occasionally need to be hooked up differently depending on the game. On this day, we have to have turned on at least 20 games, we had put a good deal of hard work into, but were missing this last piece of the puzzle so as to be able to play them. This tiny chunk of knowledge, gave us the games we all needed to begin and was sufficient to keep us motivated to continue learning how to fix problems.
Five years later, I still spend more time studying arcade fix, then I spent researching in college and the education proceeds to pay off.
For the previous few years, we've experienced a mean bug that's crept to our fleet. The matches would work good after refurbishment, but three to six months after obtaining them turned , they'd all start to fail.
To fix the symptom, we'd boost the power source to run hot which would be good for another 3 to six weeks until the power supplies would burn . After running into this puzzle a few times, we began to put the matches into deep storage until we can find out why they all kept failing. Since we assumed, it was being caused by bad circuit boards hoping to draw too much energy, we overlooked something a lot more evident.
After cleansing the chips, it might sometimes assist, but this insect was able to throw at least 20 of our matches. Well now our Mortal Kombat 2 started to exhibit the very same symptoms and quite frankly if we pull that one from the fleet, our customers will riot, so I sat down to get to the origin of the case of the fall in voltage.
To do this I took my voltage meter, measured the power at the power source and indoor playground (www.childwelfaresocietykenya.org) then started tracing the 5V line and measuring where I could touch cable. When I measured the electricity before it even went to the edge connector, I saw the voltage had already dropped. I suspected the connector between the wire and the power source. The moment I crimped on the end of the line to put on a new one, I immediately saw what my problem was.
We love getting a good deal and I'd be willing to bet you a quarter, so that you can't find a better bargain on the jamma harnesses that we purchase. Unfortunately, it looks like we may have gotten exactly what we paid for them.
From the exterior, the harness looks like it uses a thick 18 gauge cable to conduct the power to the board. That is a whole lot of metal to conduct a small amount of voltage. It's part of why I never suspected it was our offender.
Once you open this up though, it is possible to see that from the outside it looks 18 gauge, but on the inside it is short quite a bit of metal. The solution was simple, run a thicker wire from the power supply to the harness and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade at the Jack of All Trade showthis weekend.
While this simple bug ought to have been spotted sooner and has caused us a great deal of headaches, it is also extremely exciting to figure out the source of our difficulty and to understand that with very little work, we've got another 20 awesome games back on our website. Learning how to fix arcade games hasn't been easy and your schooling never really ends, but every time you solve a mystery, the following game gets easier and easier to fix.
Hopefully, other people who've run into similar problem, can save themselves the exact same aggravation by A.) double checking the cable you're using when you can not receive your voltage to journey directly from the power source to your circuit boards and B.) paying only a little bit more better quality jamma harnesses.