Froyd's Rants

So, it was a boondoggle, but now that boondoggle is over. After consulting with the guy last week (and paying him good money for his time), we found what was wrong. I ordered a new board off of eBay (Super Streefighter 2 (the first streetfighter game I’d played)) with the guarantee that it was working so that we could test it out with the monitor. once that was fixed.

Fixing the monitor took about 5 minutes broken up as follows:\ 1 minute finding where to solder again, 2 minutes waiting for the soldering iron to warm up, 1.5 cleaning the soldering iron tip, and about 30 seconds actually applying the solder.

Then to test it out, I turned on the cabinet with the odl game still attached. And ye, it was good!

Turns out the reason we couldn’t get any play out of the old board was because it started up into the test screen instead of going right to the game. No probs, that means I’ve got two working boards for the game now (suicide battery possibilities aside).

So I played a couple rounds of SF2, cleaned up the mess that is an arcade machine taken apart, and return to looking for a house.

Having an arcade machine to play is pretty nifty…unless that arcade machine is at a friend’s house. *shrug* Such is life.

I’ve also got Bust-a-Move coming in the mail, which was probably the first arcade game I’d dropped more than a few dollars on…they had it in the lower union at BSU, and that can plug straight into this cabinet. w00t!

And perhaps Mortal Kombat 2 as well, if that auction goes as planned.

Arcade Machines = Good times.

don’t leave your computer on overnight. Somehow malware will get put on it.

Then said malware will appear like a windows update icon when, in fact, there are no windows updates.

#(*&$#’n windows.

EDIT: On the other hand, there was an update published yesterday. Hmmm.

honestly…I just installed their newest update this morning like the good lil’ robot I am (and the fact that I don’t want my OS screwing up because I don’t follow their fascistic policies)…now? NOW??? THe computer is hanging. It was hanging for a while on the “Loading Personal Settings” screen, now it’s hanging on a blank desktop.

I did a system restore to before the update was installed, still hanging.

This displeases the Froyd©.

just picked up that pcb on ye olde bay of e. Hopefully it’ll work better than the other one, seller said it’s been tested and working.

UPDATE:
well, funk dat. Turns out they tested it today and it wasn’t working so they refunded the cash. More like that they didn’t want to sell it for so cheap…

maybe I’m just cynical.

So the guy came over and helped me figure out what was wrong with the machine. Apparently two things.

The first has to do with the monitor…a little piece is broken off under one of the soldering joints, so I just need to re-solder that with some wire to complete the circuit, and that should work fine.

Secondly, has to do with the game itself. Seems that it is busted right good…no sound, no nothing. I figure I’ll take it apart and see what there is to see. It was pretty loose when it was “secured” inside the machine, so I’m guessing it got banged around a bit and roughed up. That’s probably a lost cause.

Good times, good times.

Caveat emptor.

interesting times. but totally awesome times too…because when it started I moved my car.

Free car wash, baby!

Don’t know if I’ll be home for Chrimmus this year. I just looked at the airline ticket costs and about had a heart attack.