Category: You’re Doing It Wrong
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Bringing Games or Pins to a Free Play Event (e.g. Free Play Florida)?
We all love our vids and pins. And for those of us that repair and/or restore older games, most of us are proud in what we have done to return them working again and bring them back to their former glory. And we might like the idea of sharing them with others at an event…
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Got Screwed by Suzo-Happ
So a site I work with has had two GamePro monitors go down. One of them was from an odd power issue that ended up smoking one of the Zeners on its control board, and the other was just a loose power connector. These boards use a lot of smaller SMT components that I am…
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COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccine Information (With Sources)
There is a LOT of misinformation out there. The quickest way to spot misinformation is to check the wording used. The first tip is if they cannot tell the difference between the virus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease (COVID-19) – if you get that wrong, you likely got everything else wrong, too. Anyone that cannot spell…
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It is not Lag, That is how it Played!
So I was taking with someone about the Arcade1Up units and admitted that I really liked the Capcom fighter ones (upright and cocktail) ones because they included the original Street Fighter. He said they he hated it because of the “lag” in Street Fighter, and how he does not like most multiboards because of the…
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Free Speech and Facebook! (Or Twitter, or…)
Hey, wanna learn how to assert your rights to your Constitutional 1st Amendment rights of free speech on platforms you do not own or have any rights to like Facebook? I have the answer! Lean in close so you do not miss the secret… you ready?
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Covidiot BINGO!
I have long since observed a predictable and rather consistent set of behaviors with the anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-whateverbullshittheycomeupwith crowd that keeps popping up during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Lemme know if you spot anything familiar: They misspell vaccine as jab or poke They claim the vaccine is poison They claim there will be long-term effects of…
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Family and Arcade Versions of Pandora’s Boxes
So recently there have been these different versions of PBs becoming available that are very popular with those little self-contained panels that house a two-player setup with a game board and a speaker inside the panel. These used to come with the “real” PBs that used a JAMMA connector: But now they use these newer…
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Machine Pin Sockets – What Are They REALLY Good For?
So another debate about machine pin sockets vs. standard (dual-wipe) sockets came up on one of the arcade repair-related groups I am a member of. And it, like just about every other older discussion about them, centered around not knowing our understanding what they are really supposed to be used for, and without fail, someone…
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So-called Web “Developers”
So, I have been seeing this more and more. I see the term “Web Developer” being applied to anybody that can do basic HTML5 and CSS scripting. Even worse, I see the term being applied to people that do not know enough to understand how the back end works, or cannot even spell LAMP. If…