Congrats John! I’ve had a few of those ‘is that really all it was?’ moments fixing pinball machines. I have a love/hate relationship with those moments. The eye opening moment when learning has occurred is a good one. Nice going.
That was a gloriously brilliant ending... it being something so simple. I never would have thought of that jumper. Our long national nightmare is finally over. XD BRING ON THE BRONCO!
This update is going to help me so much. I restored a MK II a long time ago and had everything in place and then the monitor snapped off and I could smell smoke. I am planning on doing everything you did to the PCB to try and resurrect it. This guide has been great and I am now ready to order parts and try to finally finish it up.
Love your vids bro..I have a arcade machine in my mancave and when I seen your vids on here explaining how things work ect it gives me inspiration and ideas and troubleshooting tips on how 2 toy with mine👌👍
Holy god John I have experienced this level of frustration working on a Neotec 2701 !!! So frustrating !!!!! I was getting anxious again watching you go through this, PTAD Post Traumatic Arcade Disorder !!! HAHAHA Very happy for you man. This machine will definitely have a sentimental value for you every time you look at it with all of your blood sweat and tears you put into her :-) Congrats sir !!
Way to go John!! Looks awesome!!! I’m surprised you didn’t notice it earlier when you had the board off during the solder reflow. In the immortal words of Boris Karloff....ITS ALIVE!!!!!!
John love the video quality of your Sony Handycam! I know this isn't Mortal Kombat related...peeking over to the left at your Ice Cold Beer coin door. Mega thanks for reading my mail John!!
Awesome, glad you fixed it pal, looking forward to final bits to finish it off, stick it in its hole and a quick gameplay, then you can move on with your life 😎
It's always...ALWAYS...something simple and silly...that will stump you. Reminds me of trying to defeat noise in a cassette cable not realizing the replaced stereo cable causing trouble with a stray ring line grabbing noise. Glad to see things worked out in the end...
Thank goodness you finally do it and really in shock that simple jumper cause to has bars on the screen and it was shocking. Anyway MK2 is finished. hurrah.
What an ironic twist and ending to your frustrating Mortal Kombat 2 John, looking forward to the video of you playing it. Hold down Low Kick a few seconds then let go for Liu Kang's bike kick
hi john! according to mame git, this is the explanation for the extra button: /*Note-the real MK2 board has a special cable designed for SF2 cab conversions that has the 2 SF2 Medium punch/kick buttons as block buttons for MK2. The secondary block button registers in test mode, but does not have an indicator light show up. During gameplay, the second block only functions temporarily. You can hold the button, but the character will only take a block position for 1 second. This is correct behavior.*/
Yay! You finished the MK2! Good job on finding that jumper! Well I got good news my Gauntlet machine (the one I got for 50 bucks) it has a Hantarex monitor too. So I'll just send that your way to let ya fix it because you seemed to have no problem fixing yours hahaha just kidding this thing is going in the trash. Keep up the good work John and congrats again on "Finishing" the MK2
Great to see you finally get MKII up and running. Really enjoyed watching this project evolve. Have you got something in mind for the next one once MKII is totally wrapped up?
Give the board a good scrub with an used soft toothbrush and some isopropyl alcohol , for the love of god :D A very clean board leads to much much less problems in the long run :D
According to Ken Layton on KLOV: "Thick, dark, stationary vertical lines (1/2" or wider) are called "jail bars" and that symptom is ALWAYS caused by bad electrolytic capacitors on the monitor. Thin, light or dark vertical bars (1/4" or less in width) are generally caused by bad video ram or other bad component on the GAME board. Thin, white diagonal lines across the picture are called 'retrace' lines and are caused by the "screen" control on the flyback turned up too high. Thin, dark diagonal 'worm wiggle' or 'herringbone lines are caused by a bad ground on the power supply. Thick, rolling HORIZONTAL lines in the picture are likely from bad filter capacitors or shorted voltage regulator on the game power supply." Edit: CRAP! Watched the last few minutes and saw that you fixed it. Good catch!
Wow something as simple as that, top work John, and that monitor looks really crisp, personally I prefer Mortal Kombat 1, is that the same pinout? Possible to have both boards and a switcher?
Whoaa, you finally fixed it! Ughh, don't you hate it when you did all or most of the hard stuff BEFORE you discovered the little easy thing that fixes it? UGHHH!
i've noticed that too, it is explained on mame's source: /*Note-the real MK2 board has a special cable designed for SF2 cab conversions that has the 2 SF2 Medium punch/kick buttons as block buttons for MK2. The secondary block button registers in test mode, but does not have an indicator light show up. During gameplay, the second block only functions temporarily. You can hold the button, but the character will only take a block position for 1 second. This is correct behavior.*/
Hey John, tried to join the Johns Arcade forums because I have some questions . But been waiting for account approval for over a week :) did I do something wrong during registration?
Nice! You've also now caused an alternative reality in the John's Arcade Universe - can we look forward to some interesting videos from both Past-John and Future-John? What if in the alternative universe Past-John never discovers the jumper and he ends up being driven insane while in the other universe Future-John is sitting back smiling, feet up, chomping smoked brisket with Adam and Matt happily playing MKII in the background? All is not lost though as Past-John is somehow able to create a temporary comms link to the present universe (from a broken popcorn machine and spare parts in the garage) and is able to call up 520-FEEL-VGO and leave a desperate plea for help. Will Future-John understand the message and be able to help save Past-John?
LOL. That jumper thing could only happen to you. This was a cursed restore. Congratulations. It looks beautiful.
Yes, well done, finally!
Congrats John! I’ve had a few of those ‘is that really all it was?’ moments fixing pinball machines. I have a love/hate relationship with those moments. The eye opening moment when learning has occurred is a good one. Nice going.
That was a gloriously brilliant ending... it being something so simple. I never would have thought of that jumper.
Our long national nightmare is finally over. XD
BRING ON THE BRONCO!
Love watching your videos. This was quite a journey, so glad you kept working at it. Thanks so much for sharing it with us. Great job!!
Finally! Envious and loving it. Can not wait to see you get to new projects.
Just wanted to leave a comment and say thank you for documenting this. It has helped me troubleshoot my MK2 Cab and get it up and running!!
Learned about deoxit thru your ch, best stuff I've ever used for cleaning my connections!!! Thanks for all the good info on what u do!!!!!!
FLAWLESS VICTORY
this came out gorgeous! thankful we got to hear from future john before the video ended
You earned this one man! What a beast of a restore.
I was like noooo, so close. Then that jumper. Nothing is as satisfying like when you find the problem.
Nice! Congrats on finally getting it all going. Very interested to see what you work on next!
This update is going to help me so much. I restored a MK II a long time ago and had everything in place and then the monitor snapped off and I could smell smoke. I am planning on doing everything you did to the PCB to try and resurrect it. This guide has been great and I am now ready to order parts and try to finally finish it up.
Awesome! Good luck!!
Sweet John actually doing a arcade video. I love these.
Love your vids bro..I have a arcade machine in my mancave and when I seen your vids on here explaining how things work ect it gives me inspiration and ideas and troubleshooting tips on how 2 toy with mine👌👍
Holy god John I have experienced this level of frustration working on a Neotec 2701 !!! So frustrating !!!!! I was getting anxious again watching you go through this, PTAD Post Traumatic Arcade Disorder !!! HAHAHA Very happy for you man. This machine will definitely have a sentimental value for you every time you look at it with all of your blood sweat and tears you put into her :-) Congrats sir !!
I just spent 2 hrs watching you struggle for 2 or more hours... For a damn jumper! Was it worth it... YES!
Awesome, we're back in the basement! I'm really looking forward to MKII finally working for you.
I'm glad to see you fix your mk machine.. Congrats🎉🎊👏👏
Way to go John!! Looks awesome!!!
I’m surprised you didn’t notice it earlier when you had the board off during the solder reflow.
In the immortal words of Boris Karloff....ITS ALIVE!!!!!!
Wow! I can't believe that you restored the Mortal Kombat II arcade cabinet, John. Finally.
hey john great video loved every bit of it hope u get it sorted m8
Been waiting on this one for a while!
great job John, another great restore!
Finally a bit of luck with this game! Glad you cracked it mate, looks fantastic
Awesome job on the restore! MK2 is sweet!!!!
Awesome! Great work John.
John love the video quality of your Sony Handycam! I know this isn't Mortal Kombat related...peeking over to the left at your Ice Cold Beer coin door. Mega thanks for reading my mail John!!
Thanks, man!
Crazy fix. Nice find dude.
Awesome, glad you fixed it pal, looking forward to final bits to finish it off, stick it in its hole and a quick gameplay, then you can move on with your life 😎
I'm building a Multi-Kombat that I'm documenting on my channel. Nice work!
Yes Pubble Bobble is a great game lol. Grats on finally finishing this game John sheesh it's been a long time.
great video john the game looks great!!!
MK II looking great man!
just a jumper? never seen a test pattern jumper or messed w one wth glad you figured it out!
Congrats, it is done!!! "It has begun"
Damn, even your workbench looks cool
It's always...ALWAYS...something simple and silly...that will stump you. Reminds me of trying to defeat noise in a cassette cable not realizing the replaced stereo cable causing trouble with a stray ring line grabbing noise.
Glad to see things worked out in the end...
Thanks for the new video!
this is so interesting. Now they are building super game computers, but this game is like archelogy. Keep it up!
Holy Moly! 2.5 hours long! I’ll have to watch it tonight... 👍👍
7:22 the game gives him the finger. Lol that's what I thought it was when I first saw it
I see it, too! LOL
Congrats finding that John!
John, finally you got that bad boy fixed. It looks amazing. I hope you do a follow game play on MK2 👍
I was begging you to plug the Tetris board back in and you finally did! :D
Yeah he re-seated those Roms for nothing, how did he not see the lines were there when he first time he plugged in Tetris
I think the first time I plugged in Tetris I only had blue, so the lines weren't so obvious to me then. And, well... the TPG didn't show any lines!
1:11:51 I surely can see the lines with the TPG there !!! ;)
Thank goodness you finally do it and really in shock that simple jumper cause to has bars on the screen and it was shocking. Anyway MK2 is finished. hurrah.
What an ironic twist and ending to your frustrating Mortal Kombat 2 John, looking forward to the video of you playing it. Hold down Low Kick a few seconds then let go for Liu Kang's bike kick
hi john! according to mame git, this is the explanation for the extra button:
/*Note-the real MK2 board has a special cable designed for SF2 cab conversions that has the 2 SF2 Medium punch/kick buttons as block buttons for MK2. The secondary block button registers in test mode, but does not have an indicator light show up. During gameplay, the second block only functions temporarily. You can hold the button, but the character will only take a block position for 1 second. This is correct behavior.*/
Epic win! 😎👏
FIRST. Congrats on 40k, JJ!
Yes ! Well done
Yay! You finished the MK2! Good job on finding that jumper! Well I got good news my Gauntlet machine (the one I got for 50 bucks) it has a Hantarex monitor too. So I'll just send that your way to let ya fix it because you seemed to have no problem fixing yours hahaha just kidding this thing is going in the trash. Keep up the good work John and congrats again on "Finishing" the MK2
Please someone make a clip of John saying "we can't screw this up" and then cut to him completely missing the crimp. Best moment of the video
Now go to the secret EJB menu! ;-) Congratz on finishing it !!
Yes!!! Finally John you did it .it looks awesome man now you should do a Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3😂😂😂😂
Job well done matey ;)
Finally! This restore probably has more episodes than Days of our lives! The game looks fantastic though :)
Great to see you finally get MKII up and running. Really enjoyed watching this project evolve. Have you got something in mind for the next one once MKII is totally wrapped up?
Give the board a good scrub with an used soft toothbrush and some isopropyl alcohol , for the love of god :D
A very clean board leads to much much less problems in the long run :D
If it ain't broken don't touch it.
finally, lets play....!
According to Ken Layton on KLOV:
"Thick, dark, stationary vertical lines (1/2" or wider) are called "jail bars" and that symptom is ALWAYS caused by bad electrolytic capacitors on the monitor. Thin, light or dark vertical bars (1/4" or less in width) are generally caused by bad video ram or other bad component on the GAME board. Thin, white diagonal lines across the picture are called 'retrace' lines and are caused by the "screen" control on the flyback turned up too high. Thin, dark diagonal 'worm wiggle' or 'herringbone lines are caused by a bad ground on the power supply. Thick, rolling HORIZONTAL lines in the picture are likely from bad filter capacitors or shorted voltage regulator on the game power supply."
Edit: CRAP! Watched the last few minutes and saw that you fixed it. Good catch!
John please buy some contact cleaner and clean the pots, also that battery terminal was dirty as hell
That damn jumper!
Great job - now im curious what will be the next project :-D
First lol glad to see this getting finished.
Wish I had a basement arcade like his :)
Wow something as simple as that, top work John, and that monitor looks really crisp, personally I prefer Mortal Kombat 1, is that the same pinout? Possible to have both boards and a switcher?
nice to see that the past John called it..."hmm...maybe it's something really stupid" lol
If you adjust the shutter speed on your camera you can eliminate those rolling lines on your monitor.
Welp, I am not going to bed anytime soon lol.. I wonder if we will ever see a black tiger arcade cab on this channel.
Now you have to became good in mk2! Toastyyyy
Yes. I know. :)
So you are the one ringing that bell on the VGO podcast!!!
Ya need to finish this.
Mortal kombat LIVES!!
FLAWLESS VICTORY!!
Whoaa, you finally fixed it! Ughh, don't you hate it when you did all or most of the hard stuff BEFORE you discovered the little easy thing that fixes it? UGHHH!
God bless Polos!!
Tomorrow, I need you to go order a Molex pin extractor tool. Don't risk your hands!
Well, you've got more than one PCB there, so you should specify which one you're talking about. The monitor alone has at least 3.
I'm going to be hearing "Ya! Huh! Ungh! Ooh! Ah! AWWWW!" in my sleep now.
Very nice Channel John and a Lot of good informations:), but i think the Monitor is damaged...oxidised or Something?
IT WORKS!!! woo
THAT JUMPER LOL
I swear I seen part 20 in my video suggestions.. I went to watch it... and then it was gone... So I decided to rewatch this episode instead xD
Part 20 is here and has been uploaded th-cam.com/video/PvxBNYCSfqM/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgyZWj2fi9BP0zlULQh4AaABAg
@@Johnsarcade Thank you!!! Stay awesome!
you should do these restore videos live so people can comment ideas to help solve the issues with the games.
John, whats the best way to clean the coin doors? One of the coin slots is sticking!
could try deoxit on the jamma connector
Yea!!!!!!!!!! We fixed it :-)
👍😎
Maybe you can do a restore video on that popcorn maker.
I like stupid John, future John knows too much :P
Jumpers for life lol
On Mame the Mortal Kombats have 6 buttons in the setup menu. Two are used for Block, so that extra button is probably an extra Block switch.
MK3 and up have 6 buttons, MK and MKII have 5 buttons.
i've noticed that too, it is explained on mame's source:
/*Note-the real MK2 board has a special cable designed for SF2 cab conversions that has the 2 SF2 Medium punch/kick buttons as block buttons for MK2. The secondary block button registers in test mode, but does not have an indicator light show up. During gameplay, the second block only functions temporarily. You can hold the button, but the character will only take a block position for 1 second. This is correct behavior.*/
Hey John, tried to join the Johns Arcade forums because I have some questions . But been waiting for account approval for over a week :) did I do something wrong during registration?
What have you done to the popcorn machine?
Will you do a final video on MKII showing how it looks with all the bulbs replaced and some gameplay :) - ps I want a MKII now :D
Yes, I think we should do one more video. Not 100% done but VERY close.
Nice! You've also now caused an alternative reality in the John's Arcade Universe - can we look forward to some interesting videos from both Past-John and Future-John? What if in the alternative universe Past-John never discovers the jumper and he ends up being driven insane while in the other universe Future-John is sitting back smiling, feet up, chomping smoked brisket with Adam and Matt happily playing MKII in the background? All is not lost though as Past-John is somehow able to create a temporary comms link to the present universe (from a broken popcorn machine and spare parts in the garage) and is able to call up 520-FEEL-VGO and leave a desperate plea for help. Will Future-John understand the message and be able to help save Past-John?
Stupid Old John doesn't know that Future John is currently replying to this.
Haha, 47:06-47:08 and 1:36:40-1:36:42: hey, you're a poet!
(Oh, of course! It's no accident that they put the downs with the _browns,_ is it? :-D ...)
lol very funny
Did Turning you hobby in to work at the hanger, make it less fun?
I saw you at the hangar getting turkey drumsticks.
I saw you at the hangar drinking beer watching John getting turkey drumsticks.
@@utubepunk
Fuckin lol
He was also naked for some reason.