Thanks a lot for that. Even I thought it was a lost cause at the beginning but still wanted to see how far we could get. Glad it worked out in the end.
Luke, love your videos. Would really like to see you working on the board, and not just the end result. I think this would be both educational and entertaining for everyone watching 👍
Thanks. I would like to do something like that but picking up the camera, especially at night or when Im tinkering with stuff can be a bit tricky. Camera and angles not interfearing with the work, getting a clear image, modifying sounds of grinders in the video etc requires a bit more work and time. Sometimes I dont have that time but maybe at some point I can do that at some point in the future though.
I'm amazed you got a live board out of this junk! Approx 25 yrs ago I repaired a TV set from my sister-in-laws. It was hit by water from a turned over flower pot on top of the set. Part of EHT circuit was completely charred and some copper tracks were literally hanging in the air, a couple of them shorted out. I managed to repair the pcb, replacing the tracks with insulated wires and cleaning/cutting away the charred chunk of pcb. The TV set was working happily after that until they replaced it with a newer model. I know what it takes: patience, patience, determination, perseverance and experience with electronics. You are a hero of my kind 👍👍👍
Greetings from Eastern Europe - Bulgaria. This was amazing job there! A couple of years I've resurrected a power amp board with smd chips and the boards was snapped on to pieces so i desoldered chips on the way and glued the PCB's with super glue and then repair traces with thin wires like you do, then solder back chips. Interestingly there was no snapped chips and no missing parts rather than some small pieces of the boards missing but the restoration was successfull and very similar to what you did here so i am happy to see people like you put their hearts into good cause. There are not many people who can/will do this. That is why i subscribed to you! Just keep doing this man!
Thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoy the videos my frien. Really cool that you were able to get yours going as well. Gotta try to keep these boards going as long as we possibly can. Take care and keep the games alive!
@@lukemorse1 By the way i played this game when i was a kid so nostalgia get me too :) It always interested me whats inside arcade machine as well as outside and when the technicians opened one for repair i stared insides like kid in a candy shop. Now days you wont/hardly find one of those treasure mines ;)
I have a big ball of Christmas lights I'm going to send you Luke. Good lord that board was ran over by a small car. Your patience is absolutely unmatched.
For anyone concerned. Regarding the mess of jumper wires for the traces on the bottom of the board. Once the board was confirmed working and fully functional, The jumper wires on the bottom of the board were trimmed and lined up as well as possible and then glued in place to avoid movement (even though the board is fixed to a piece of MDF).
Hey David, yeah man. This was one heck of an adventure but glad I was able to get this far with it for sure. Trying to save these boards one at a time for sure :) Thanks as always man
I've only just discovered your channel and subscribed. You did a wonderful job there as this project would have finished me off! You've probably already shown how you re-flow these ASICS and what tools you use, so I'll trawl through your other videos from the start. Thank you all the effort you put into this restoration; it was an enjoyable video.
Impressively solved repair job. There's a sort of irony attached to the way the game is of a post-apocalyptic cityscape devastated by destruction, and yet, simultaneously, the arcade board itself resembles a city driven to ruination by some likewise cataclysmic event. But then hope. _"From the ashes a new dawn rises"_ (and so on - that sort of thing). Does anybody else see this? Is this too deep for the comments-section?
I mean I hate giving up on things, but if I had seen that, I think I would have called it FUBAR if it was still completely non functional after repairing traces and reflowing joints, you have the patience of a saint Luke, excellent work, I'm chuffed you uploaded another incremented PCB repair video, they always were my favourite.
I really appreciate the kind words man. Thanks for that. I knew this was going to be hard but didnt expect this would be the outcome. Just happy it worked out.
@@lukemorse1 I know the feeling although I'm not quite the surgeon you are. Or I should say miracle worker. Simply desoldering the vast amounts of pins would drive me nuts. Look forward to the next vid. Thanks for all the content!!
Great work, thanks for sharing :) Glad that the custom chips weren't damaged. Without wanting to sound pedantic: the "NF" parts next to the JAMMA edge are actually EMI filters (NF for "Noise Filter" maybe ?). In case you don't have any spare ones and only want to test the inputs on a board, you can bridge the 2 outer pins and leave the center one disconnected. There will be no more filtering obviously but it shouldn't be a problem if your JAMMA harness isn't 5 meters long :)
Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it. Thanks for the info as well. This repair is nothing compared to your level of development and skill but glad to have it working again. Hope all your projects are going well too :)
This is why I subbed to your channel. You inspired me to get into arcade gaming, and I bought my first piece of arcade hardware recently, a Neo Geo MVS MV-1B board. I can't wait to consolize it!
a little late but finally getting around to this one! man that looked rough in the beginning, but always happy to see these dead/near-dead boards brought back to life! Hope we can see a proper playthrough in the future?!
Awesome video, great work on the rebuild, I would recommend a temp controlled heat gun to make reflow easier, also if you apply some heat to the pcb where its bent it should greatly lessen it
@@lukemorse1 This is an amazing repair! The patience you have for fixing stuff is unbelievable. I've missed this kind of videos, like the old days when I first subscribed. I remember you fixing a NEO-GEO controller in a small closet (?) filled with consoles and stuff. Cozy it was I must say. I really enjoyed this one, as I said, old school Luke videos. Analyzing, explaining, fix the problem, come back and test. Really like that. I hope you do more of these but at the same time I can understand that it's very time-consuming. But anyways, keep it up, Luke!
hello congratulations for the channel excuse my english I am Italian I would like to ask you something I bought a super nintendo from ebay the image is good but after a while I play the joypad goes crazy and works at times and then it does not work and it seems to remain If you select the cross-way to the top, replacing the slot door completely can I solve the problem? I hope for an answer thanks
It's a spiritual successor to Bad Dudes, but your character has the ability to pick up and throw just about anyone and anything that isn't bolted to the floor.
Basic electronics troubleshooting and repair. Trying to see how this is "extreme arcade repair". Maybe in an amateur hobbyist's eyes. Also to another user claiming "Not even fit for parts" inaccurate. In the end, glad to see it working again.
Thanks man, Since ive worked on a lot of boards over the years and know pretty much which parts to be trusted and which ones not, it was just instinct with those :) hope you are doing well man
I don’t understood why Luke never renamed his channel to, ‘BackAgainLukeHere!’ He says it at the start of every video, and it’s what a lot of people say when referencing him. (Okay, maybe NOT everyone, but a good majority do.)
Wow, first thoughts seeing the board unwrapped are it spent some time outside in a scrap bin at some PCB reclamation company (Back in my day i used to work at one called Compuclaim, most of the day ripping MB's out of 086-286 PC compatibles for the copper and gold content). Probably fell off a pile and got run over by the forklift as well lol. Great work assuming you got it working (comments suggest so). The Shango066 of the computer era?
Oh and just to add, anything is repairable if you have enough time/money/skill & it's pleasing to see that being proven in practise rather than just theory.
The damage and dirt looks like maybe someone dumped the cabinet in a skip, dumped the skip in a landfill and someone else came along and pulled the board out.
Luke being an American living and working abroad, I wonder how COPPA will affect your channel? You do make the occasional gameplay videos yes, but your channel is primarily about videogame hardware repair and recovery. Plus the totally random life in Japan video or two now and again 😊
So picture this: Frankenstein's lab. The board on the gurney. Luke reaches down with electrodes and zaps it with jumper cables. It's alive!! It's aliiivvvee!!!
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I do have a tripod, setting it up and positioning it around is just as much fun as my blair witch project camera skills but Ill see what I can do :)
I seriously don't know how you do it man. To anyone else that board was not even fit for parts, and yet here it is, working. Just *WOW!*
Thanks a lot for that.
Even I thought it was a lost cause at the beginning but still wanted to see how far we could get. Glad it worked out in the end.
Wow, that board was in a shocking condition!!! Great job getting it working!
Thanks as always man. You do some great work as well :)
Luke, love your videos. Would really like to see you working on the board, and not just the end result. I think this would be both educational and entertaining for everyone watching 👍
100 times this
yes agreed! it's all in what you did, how you found it, how you handled it, not just that it worked!
Thanks. I would like to do something like that but picking up the camera, especially at night or when Im tinkering with stuff can be a bit tricky.
Camera and angles not interfearing with the work, getting a clear image, modifying sounds of grinders in the video etc requires a bit more work and time. Sometimes I dont have that time but maybe at some point I can do that at some point in the future though.
I'm amazed you got a live board out of this junk!
Approx 25 yrs ago I repaired a TV set from my sister-in-laws.
It was hit by water from a turned over flower pot on top of the set.
Part of EHT circuit was completely charred and some copper tracks were literally hanging in the air, a couple of them shorted out.
I managed to repair the pcb, replacing the tracks with insulated wires and cleaning/cutting away the charred chunk of pcb.
The TV set was working happily after that until they replaced it with a newer model.
I know what it takes: patience, patience, determination, perseverance and experience with electronics.
You are a hero of my kind 👍👍👍
Greetings from Eastern Europe - Bulgaria. This was amazing job there! A couple of years I've resurrected a power amp board with smd chips and the boards was snapped on to pieces so i desoldered chips on the way and glued the PCB's with super glue and then repair traces with thin wires like you do, then solder back chips. Interestingly there was no snapped chips and no missing parts rather than some small pieces of the boards missing but the restoration was successfull and very similar to what you did here so i am happy to see people like you put their hearts into good cause. There are not many people who can/will do this. That is why i subscribed to you! Just keep doing this man!
Thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoy the videos my frien. Really cool that you were able to get yours going as well. Gotta try to keep these boards going as long as we possibly can. Take care and keep the games alive!
@@lukemorse1 By the way i played this game when i was a kid so nostalgia get me too :) It always interested me whats inside arcade machine as well as outside and when the technicians opened one for repair i stared insides like kid in a candy shop. Now days you wont/hardly find one of those treasure mines ;)
Wow. Watching you resurrect that impressively screwed up board was inspirational. I wish I was half the engineer you are.
Great work! You hate to see old arcade PCBs in that kind of condition, glad you could save it!
I have a big ball of Christmas lights I'm going to send you Luke. Good lord that board was ran over by a small car. Your patience is absolutely unmatched.
Someone probably smashed the arcade cabinet with a sledgehammer, and removed the board from it with the same precision tool.
Agreed. Or someone left it on a garage floor and drove over it?
For anyone concerned.
Regarding the mess of jumper wires for the traces on the bottom of the board. Once the board was confirmed working and fully functional, The jumper wires on the bottom of the board were trimmed and lined up as well as possible and then glued in place to avoid movement (even though the board is fixed to a piece of MDF).
This is a repair you should be proud of. You spent a lot of time with little expectation of payoff and luckily it worked. Great job!
This shot has navigated right into my heart.
Pretty amazing end result here.
Thanks man. Not easy by any means for sure but glad it is at least working again for sure
Awesome patience, determination and skill there! I would have needed repair after attempting that!
As always your dedication to saving these things from the grave is incredible.
Thanks bro.
Just doing what I can to fix these classics up and keep them going for a little longer. You too though
Man, not even MacGyver could save this one, but you did it!
Wow, that PCB was in a shocking state. I hope it was super cheap since it was wrecked. You're amazing getting the board working again Well done!!!!
Great work, Luke! You're the GOD of arcade repairs.
Lol, not sure about that part but glad to be able to fix the ones I can. Thanks a lot
Fantastic save! You brought it back from the Matrix, lol. Another nice board to have and man, you really resurrected this one, great job, Luke!
Hey David, yeah man. This was one heck of an adventure but glad I was able to get this far with it for sure. Trying to save these boards one at a time for sure :)
Thanks as always man
Awesome job! hats off to you! when I saw the board at the beginning my thoughts were "there´s no way this is going to work again" but you did it! wow!
Thanks a lot man. I actually hd the same feeling going into it but glad it worked out in the end
I've only just discovered your channel and subscribed. You did a wonderful job there as this project would have finished me off! You've probably already shown how you re-flow these ASICS and what tools you use, so I'll trawl through your other videos from the start. Thank you all the effort you put into this restoration; it was an enjoyable video.
Impressively solved repair job. There's a sort of irony attached to the way the game is of a post-apocalyptic cityscape devastated by destruction, and yet, simultaneously, the arcade board itself resembles a city driven to ruination by some likewise cataclysmic event. But then hope. _"From the ashes a new dawn rises"_ (and so on - that sort of thing). Does anybody else see this? Is this too deep for the comments-section?
Incredible work again Luke!
Thanks a lot, Just glad to have it working again
As a friend of mine would say - you're doing God's work. Keep it up.
It sad to see a really good Data East game be treated like this, and yet, you got it working again! Well done! :D
That game was amazing when I was young, ability to pick up stuff and people to throw was so fun.
Oh for sure man. I think that is one of the coolest points in the game, picking up cars and telephone poles and launching them at people lol
Awesome Luke! Your dedication to repairing these boards is unparalleled!
the work you do is very important, luke. congrats on saving this cool game - peace out!
I mean I hate giving up on things, but if I had seen that, I think I would have called it FUBAR if it was still completely non functional after repairing traces and reflowing joints, you have the patience of a saint Luke, excellent work, I'm chuffed you uploaded another incremented PCB repair video, they always were my favourite.
I really appreciate the kind words man. Thanks for that. I knew this was going to be hard but didnt expect this would be the outcome. Just happy it worked out.
Been watching for years. You're a magician.
Thanks a lot for the kind words. Sometimes its just hit and miss but feels good when they start working again
@@lukemorse1 I know the feeling although I'm not quite the surgeon you are. Or I should say miracle worker. Simply desoldering the vast amounts of pins would drive me nuts. Look forward to the next vid. Thanks for all the content!!
As a former bench tech, you have done the impossible. Well done! (I still wouldn’t trust it. Lol!)
Great work, thanks for sharing :) Glad that the custom chips weren't damaged.
Without wanting to sound pedantic: the "NF" parts next to the JAMMA edge are actually EMI filters (NF for "Noise Filter" maybe ?). In case you don't have any spare ones and only want to test the inputs on a board, you can bridge the 2 outer pins and leave the center one disconnected. There will be no more filtering obviously but it shouldn't be a problem if your JAMMA harness isn't 5 meters long :)
Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it. Thanks for the info as well. This repair is nothing compared to your level of development and skill but glad to have it working again. Hope all your projects are going well too :)
This is why I subbed to your channel. You inspired me to get into arcade gaming, and I bought my first piece of arcade hardware recently, a Neo Geo MVS MV-1B board. I can't wait to consolize it!
I really do appreciate the kind words. Thanks again for the support and hopefully I can make more vids here soon.
now that was a project, really well done Luke
Thanks a lot man. Didnt think it would make it, but glad it did
DUDE YOU'RE THE MASTER!!! very cool dude! you really inspire me!
Thanks man. Just really happy to have been able to save this board
@@lukemorse1 Great job ! before I would not touch such a board perhaps now.. :)
Board was salvaged from nuclear explosions of unknown origin. Nice work.
a little late but finally getting around to this one! man that looked rough in the beginning, but always happy to see these dead/near-dead boards brought back to life! Hope we can see a proper playthrough in the future?!
Condition: Acceptable
Hahaha, right!
Need to double check the listing because it might have said that
"Untested"
Good job man! Another one back from the dead! Luke can repair anything!
really love your video's, amazing to see it working with that amount of damage
Great clip. Really enjoyed it. Its so soothing to watch you repair stuff.
Really glad you enjoyed it and thanks again for the kind words
Awesome video, great work on the rebuild, I would recommend a temp controlled heat gun to make reflow easier, also if you apply some heat to the pcb where its bent it should greatly lessen it
Excellent job on saving this Arcade board Luke!
The Dudes give voice to your probable thoughts upon seeing the board: "What a day.."
Haha! Seriously true there.
... Who hurt you... :(
Edit: Got to the end of the video; Absolutely fantastic job. well done.
Yes!! Board repair video with progress! I love it!
Haha, thanks man. Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@lukemorse1 This is an amazing repair! The patience you have for fixing stuff is unbelievable. I've missed this kind of videos, like the old days when I first subscribed. I remember you fixing a NEO-GEO controller in a small closet (?) filled with consoles and stuff. Cozy it was I must say. I really enjoyed this one, as I said, old school Luke videos. Analyzing, explaining, fix the problem, come back and test. Really like that. I hope you do more of these but at the same time I can understand that it's very time-consuming.
But anyways, keep it up, Luke!
Fantastic job! Another great resurrection.
34:56 is the colour in the top left image supposed to invert like that?
The two large custom chips labeled "55" are tilemap generators; I think that might be a good thing to try and recreate on an FPGA.
What an amazing job Luke!
That was an incredible repair job, way to go!
Amazing job! Not many people would even attempt that and it would end up in the trash
Used to love this game back in the arcades - my local (UK) cade had it named as "Crude Buster"
Amazing work on that board luke, is there anything you cant fix?
Excellent job man!
Hey Marty, thanks as always man
this was one of my most played genesis game. i just loved it. so much fun.
Luke do you have a dead PC Engine DUo? I need a PC Engine DUo SHell because my screw holes are stripped and shitty now.
I have this exact same board but with missing backgrounds and player 1 controls not functioning. Any tips for fixing it?
hello congratulations for the channel excuse my english I am Italian I would like to ask you something I bought a super nintendo from ebay the image is good but after a while I play the joypad goes crazy and works at times and then it does not work and it seems to remain If you select the cross-way to the top, replacing the slot door completely can I solve the problem? I hope for an answer thanks
amazing work as always Luke!
Its a shame brand new would be a couple of grand to buy the board good resurrection though,,
Amazing work there Luke!
Hi Luke! Do you know where I can find candy cabs? We want to import some from japan!
Wow, amazing work Luke!
There are five different sound generators! Where is the HuC6280 on here, btw? Is it the one with the "45" label on it?
Great usage of a Dremel ! :)
I take the idea to fix a Voodoo2.
Great job on resurrecting this one- I think most would have given up on it.
I have never played that arcade before but love the video
It's a spiritual successor to Bad Dudes, but your character has the ability to pick up and throw just about anyone and anything that isn't bolted to the floor.
Excellent job!
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it
Basic electronics troubleshooting and repair. Trying to see how this is "extreme arcade repair". Maybe in an amateur hobbyist's eyes. Also to another user claiming "Not even fit for parts" inaccurate. In the end, glad to see it working again.
Hey Luke, can you replace the belt on my twin famicon? I work in Akiba.
Awesome job on getting that bored working, very cool. So how did you end up determining which RAM chips were bad, trial and error and swapping?
Thanks man,
Since ive worked on a lot of boards over the years and know pretty much which parts to be trusted and which ones not, it was just instinct with those :) hope you are doing well man
I hope you could get Vapor Trail arcade board some day
Yeah, that may happen in the future but who knows :) thanks again as always man
Dude so cool :)
Would you make use of a HDMI microscope? Think something like that would come in handy for you
Someone played Whac-A-Mole with this board.
Seriously, totally agree
I don’t understood why Luke never renamed his channel to, ‘BackAgainLukeHere!’ He says it at the start of every video, and it’s what a lot of people say when referencing him. (Okay, maybe NOT everyone, but a good majority do.)
It was a hard one. Congrats Luke 👍🏻😊
Thanks a lot. It took some time for sure lol
Wow, first thoughts seeing the board unwrapped are it spent some time outside in a scrap bin at some PCB reclamation company (Back in my day i used to work at one called Compuclaim, most of the day ripping MB's out of 086-286 PC compatibles for the copper and gold content). Probably fell off a pile and got run over by the forklift as well lol. Great work assuming you got it working (comments suggest so). The Shango066 of the computer era?
Oh and just to add, anything is repairable if you have enough time/money/skill & it's pleasing to see that being proven in practise rather than just theory.
where is your Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro review Bro ? I still remember your honest take on the Neo Geo X :D:D
Luke you are crazy 🤯 Wow amazing repair 🤯
Lol, after I saw what I was getting into I would totally agree with that. Thanks as always and hope you are doing well
@@lukemorse1 Thanks for your kind words. I hope you doing well to. 😄
what a job ! nicely done !
Thanks for sharing your repair 👍
苦しいですよねぇ。。。
YES THE GREEN BLOCK SCREEN IMAGE IS RAM RELATED YOU CAN REPLICATE THE FAULT BY EARTHING OUT CERTAIN PINS IN RAM CARDS.
18:36 proof that the Matrix is real :P - this board taps into it. :) We're all pods. LOL
lolol, that may be true Mark
I so envy (not in a bad way) you those skills and steady hands :D
Lol, thanks. Just dont envy the time that it took :)
What the hell happened to that thing? Did a dog or a small child get ahold of it? Jeez.
The damage and dirt looks like maybe someone dumped the cabinet in a skip, dumped the skip in a landfill and someone else came along and pulled the board out.
Don't use Toshiba rams, they have a high failure point. Use Fujitsu instead (ironically, TTL's sucks but rams are great)
Luke being an American living and working abroad, I wonder how COPPA will affect your channel?
You do make the occasional gameplay videos yes, but your channel is primarily about videogame hardware repair and recovery. Plus the totally random life in Japan video or two now and again 😊
How many hours do you spend on these?
It really depends on the board but I spent about a week on this one
So picture this: Frankenstein's lab. The board on the gurney. Luke reaches down with electrodes and zaps it with jumper cables. It's alive!! It's aliiivvvee!!!
This some necromancer level pcb type shit!
Amazing job!
Great video as always, but i think it time to invest in a tripod so you can have your 2 hands free.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I do have a tripod, setting it up and positioning it around is just as much fun as my blair witch project camera skills but Ill see what I can do :)
@@lukemorse1 i know the pain. Trust me i had to buy a gimbel for my yt videos and it also doubles as a tripod
Amazing job
Very cool! Nice job!
Thanks a lot as always man. hope you are doing well
YOU ARE FUKN GIFTED BY SUCH A TALENT AND GENIUSLY.....ME, NOT SO MUCH...KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.....EH
Thanks for that. Im sure you have more than enough talent, just depends on what you do. Thanks again
@@lukemorse1 AAAHHHHH I TALKED TO THE LUKER, OOOHHHHHH MY I GOTTA SIT DOWN.......thanks man
What a team!
Well done!!!
Jesus man! Do you own an "resurrect arcade PCB" spell? Man!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha! I guess it was a bit of luck here with this one. thanks man