I’ve just purchased my next project from a Playdium auction. It’s a Coney Island Arcade branded boxer machine (sometimes also known as a punchball machine, strength tester, or punch measurer) that, from the auction listing, appears to be in terrible disrepair. Since there is very little repair information on boxer machines available on the internet, Read More…
Author: Justin Paulin
5 Minutes in the Ms. Pac-Man Factory, 1982
I wonder how many machines made there are still working today.
Fixing a Blurry Arcade Cabinet Monitor (CRT)
I recently acquired a Simpsons Bowling arcade cabinet that had a blurry, unfocussed display. Here’s how I fixed it (for free) to be good as new. The Cabinet: Before: After: The Fix (Step-by-Step): Find a friend. Power up the game. Open up the cabinet. Find the knob labelled “focus”. It should be on the flyback transformer, on Read More…
Why (Cheap) N64 Reproductions Won’t Be Possible
Here’s a mapper-based NES game: You have your ROMs (2 big chips on the top left), CIC (anti-piracy chip – on the top-right), memory mapper (bottom left square chip), and WRAM (bottom right chip). The NES reads the game off of the ROM chips by calling the data it needs from the correct memory banks. Read More…
Universal Game Case Cover – Recca (Famicom)
Here’s a cover for universal game cases that I made for the game Recca (Famicom). It’s not very good, but feel free to use it however you’d like.
Getting A Coin Acceptor and Arduino To Work With MAME
As part of a MAME retrofitting project, I was recently tasked with getting a coin acceptor to work with the MAME emulator. As the MAME emulator uses a keyboard to get input (ie. controller, start, coin insertion, etc…), I had to get the coin acceptor to output a certain key whenever a coin is inserted. Read More…
Cards Against Humanity – All-White/Ink-Saver Edition
As you probably already know, Cards Against Humanity is an awesome card game. Unfortunately it’s also sold out here in Canada. I decided to make an all-white set because I wanted to print a set at home while not using tons of ink. It was made by inverting the “black” card pages in photoshop. I Read More…
A Simple Server-to-Server File Transfer Script (PHP)
I’ve used this little script quite a bit while moving servers, and it’s saved me tons of time. It allows you to transfer large files from one server to another by breaking up the file into 1MB pieces to avoid memory limits. There seems to be a 2GB maximum on transfer sizes. To use it, Read More…
Fun In Panama – Horse Crap Roulette
Who said playing with poop can’t be fun?
Communist Cat
I found this on the internet and had to share it. Also, test image post, please ignore.