As you’ll see from my last post, I’ve been trying to put some time aside to finish some of my outstanding projects. Today’s focus was driven by a very exciting delivery: A highly anticipated order from none other than the amazing MikesArcade! There were numerous parts for my numerous projects, including my Radarscope upright. The…
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Radarscope: Part 3
So in my last update, I’d removed and socketed all of the RAM chips on the CPU board. This appeared to have fixed the issue with the game hanging on boot up, but now despite coining up and starting it hung after typing out the instruction screen: After publishing that post, a fellow collector got…
Red Donkey Kong to Radarscope: Part 1
This is a big one for me. Ever since I started collecting Nintendo arcades I have been “obsessed” with the history of the games and how each new game came about. The big story of how Donkey Kong came about (covered in one of my previous posts) always intrigued me and ever since I’ve always…
Radar Scope: Part 1
So you may have seen in my last purchases post that I picked up a Radar Scope boardset. I purchased the boardset off the same eBay seller that I got HeliFire from, but this one arrived in a much different state. As is always the way with eBay, reading the description is key. All of…