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Just finished assembling my Initial D arcade cabinet and it’s looking awesome! I went for the version 2 decals from Arcadeartrepro.com, and they turned out great. Installation was easy—just took my time to avoid bubbles. I also adapted the pedals and wired everything up to the I-PAC controller for smooth gameplay.
I’ve joined the digital microscope party, if there is such a thing. Honestly finding it easier for the tiny little solder points of this PS2 Slim. Even in cases where its not directly needed to do a solder, its great...
Time for some updates on the Sega Initial D cabinet I’ve been working on over this summer. Its now mostly complete, but I’ve just not had chance to document the progress. Continuing from where I left off, the next objective...
Rebuilding the Sega racing cabinet after metalwork restoration, and repainting. Custom Initial D conversion from Outrun 2. Very excited to say I have got back all the metal pieces of the Sega Outrun 2 cabinet. I had sent them to...
Time to reveal another project I’m working on…. I’m going to build another racing arcade game. I recently purchased another arcade cabinet (with the wife’s permission). As you may have seen here, some years ago I built an arcade racing...
A quick update to show a couple of jobs I’ve done for customers this year. I’m only accepting a few work requests now and again, but this allowed for more free time for my other projects. I’ll create posts about...
This was a nice little project. I found a game gear in my storage room that needed a little TLC. New caps got it working again, but I decided to do a new LCD installation to really make it fun...
Fixing a memory issue on a customers NEO-Geo AES. Diagnosing the issue, replacing the memory and finding faulty trace. Back in June of this year a customer send me an AES to install a Unibios. All went well and the...
Installing N64 RGB mod board and various mods for Sega Saturn console. Commission work blog post. This post was for August this year. Again another backdated update. So this time a customer sent me an PAL N64 and Sega Saturn...
Installing all new caps on a customers Panasonic 3DO. New battery and installing ODE drive. This is a post I should have made in June this year. Its been a very busy summer and I’ve just got round to posting...
Time for something a bit different. I know there are a lot of mods out there focusing on updating consoles to more modern TV connection standards. This isn’t something I usually keep track of for personal use, as I still...
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