Student_Tech's Journal: Update, I guess

Well this semester so far seems to be easier than last semester. Most challenging class so far: Phys. 201, mainly because the labs are due 5PM the next day. Intorudction to Linear Algebra seems like a walk in the park compared to Calculus 2 (which I some how passed with a C+).

My friend and I like to go to the surplus sale/auction that is held by WSU once a month, last month we bought 2 working (AFAIK) arcade cabinets @ $25/each, but with out any working game boards(and lights, but they are easier to replace), they did have everything else, including 6 coin units which new sell for about $80/each. We have verified that one of the monitors seems to work, only problem is that the color guns aren't pointing at exactly the same spot. (I should say that the other one at least changes color when power is applied, so we think the tube is good.) We are both very weary of playing with the business end of a CRT. The other one had a remote board for somethings like V-Hold and 4 of the 6 potentiometers were broken so we haven't tested it yet.

One of the cabinets originally was a 4 player TMNT cabinet (says so on label on back), the other is a 2 player mortal kombat II, and hadn't been converted to anything else. The TMNT cabinet was on its 3rd or 4th game and had 2 JAMMA harnesses in there that were messing us up, so that is a rehookup project. One of the problems had been that the Composite sync from the JAMMA harness was running to +Vsync on the CRT control board, once that was hooked to -HSync (which actually is tied to a composite signal) it works fine with a PC-TV converters RGB scart out.(and someone told us as we were hauling it that the tube was broken....)

My friend is getting some cheap JAMMA boards for us to test with before we go getting the games we want to finally install, TMNT Tutrles in Time (for the 4 player cab that was TMNT), and Tekken 3 (for the MK2 cab). We are also debating who all will have access to the service swith...(are we that mean to our friends? You haven't seen 2 of them playing Tekken3 through BleamCast on my friends DC, that alone may pay for all the repair and the initial costs.)