Arcade Game Ideas

When we first began All You Can arcade game, it was a little on religion. We were confident that people would want to let arcade games by the month, but truth be told, we had no clue how to work on them. Before we knew that our launch was a month off and we had managed to collect about 100 matches, but only 10 of them worked!
We understood enough to refurbish a good chunk of those matches, but we kept hitting the identical symptom over and over again. All our monitors would exhibit a scrambled picture on the screen. It was super frustrating because we had no idea how to repair it. We almost missed our launching, but we finally clued in on what was causing our probablem when we discovered about monitor sync 101 and recognized that they sometimes have to be hooked up differently based on the match. On this day, we must have turned on at least 20 games, that we had put a good deal of hard work into, but were missing this last piece of the puzzle in order to be able to play them. This very small chunk of knowledge, gave us the games we needed to get started and was sufficient to keep us motivated to keep learning how to correct issues.
Five decades later, I spend more time researching arcade fix, I ever spent researching in school and the instruction proceeds to pay off.
For the previous couple of years, we have experienced a mean bug that's crept into our fleet. When we measured the voltage running the games, we would consistently observe a 0.2 to 0.5 drop from the 5V voltage and could not really figure out why the PCB board appeared to suck up power.
To solve the symptom, we would raise the power supply to operate hot and that would be good for another 3 to six months before the power supplies would burn out. After running into this puzzle a few times, we began to put the matches into deep storage until we could figure out why they all kept failing. Since we presumed, it had been caused by bad circuit boards trying to draw too much power, we overlooked something a lot more obvious.
After cleaning the chips, it might sometimes assist, but this insect has managed to throw at 20 of our games. Well todayour Mortal Kombat 2 started to display exactly the same symptoms and quite honestly if we pull that one by the fleet, our customers will riot, so that I sat down to get to the origin of the event of the drop in voltage.
To achieve this I took my voltage meter, then measured the electricity in the power source and then started tracing the 5V line and measuring wherever I could touch cable. When I measured the electricity before it went into the edge connector, I noticed that the voltage had dropped. I now suspected the connector between the cable and the power supply. The moment I crimped over the end of the lineup to place on a new one, I instantly noticed exactly what my problem was.
We love getting a fantastic deal and I'd be happy to bet you a quarter, so that you cannot find a better deal on the jamma harnesses that we buy. Unfortunately, it seems like we might have gotten exactly what we paid for them.
From the outside, the tap looks like it uses a thick 18 gauge wire to conduct the power to the board. That's a whole lot of metal to conduct a small amount of voltage. It is part of why I never suspected that it was our offender.
Once you open this up though, it is possible to see that from the exterior it seems 18 gauge, but on the inside it's short quite a lot of metal. The solution was easy, run a thicker wire from the power supply to the tap and Voila! Mortal Kombat 2 back up and running, just in time for our free play arcade in the Jack of All Trade showthis weekend.
While this easy bug ought to have been spotted sooner and has caused us a lot of headaches, it is also extremely exciting to work out the origin of our problem and to understand that with hardly any work, we have another 20 awesome matches back on our site . Learning to correct arcade games has never been simple and your schooling never really ends, but each time you solve a puzzle, the next game gets easier and easier to fix.
Hopefully, other people who have run into similar problem, can save themselves the same headache by A.) double checking the cable you're using when you can not receive your voltage to travel directly from the power source to your circuit boards and B.) paying just slightly more better quality jamma harnesses.