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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2007, 11:42:46 AM »
go back on work  :wink:  

Well I still have the sound problem (no sound at all)  :?

According klov.com regarding this game :



Ok, well le'ts have a look at these caps' :



I'm buying new ones, same values of course :



Opps, I don't have unsolder tool close to me yet  :?  , so I quicky replace them just to check if it will fix the sound problem...



...It doesn't  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

Ok, so I presume the main amp chip is dead ? Let's order a new one. Here it is :



It's not an easy one to fix on pcb, so I'm asking my brother to do the job, and clean my previous job on caps  :roll:  :wink:



Done ! Looks better isn't it  :wink:



YEEESS, the sound is back !!!  :P  :P  :P

I clean the marquee :



Cool, there are pins with 220V where I can plug the new TV  :arrow:



One small bug left : some bad pixels on title screen and on the score, :



...but it's not a problem at all  :)



Now, the Rolling Thunder slide show ... in action  :P









 :P  :P  :P

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2007, 07:11:04 PM »
:D   compliments  :D
it is official: I am envious of you

 :x  :x

 :D  :D
rolling thunder is one of my preferred non laser games

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2007, 07:32:26 PM »
Happy to see sounds are back to life

those old PCB's  :oops:
too old to be reliable...

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2007, 10:43:18 PM »
Yeps, sound is back  :P  :P  :P  And as a proove, check out this 'in play' video here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7VElXhGR5A

...listen the beautifull music in the short scene between level 1 and 2  :P  :P  :P

Note the gameplay, very simial to Kung Fu master I think  :wink:

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #19 on: February 08, 2007, 09:25:57 PM »
Got today a board 100% bug free:





no more graphics bug  :P







I'll try to fix the first pcb, in order to have a good *spare* pcb  :)


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« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2007, 05:10:27 PM »
:D real beautiful  cab
but the old monitor? :shock:

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2007, 08:14:07 AM »
Thanks for the link Fred  :P  I plan to get a Rolling Thunder II and a Jamma swith, in order to play both version inside the cab.

Igor, the repair of the original in now in my 'to-do' list, but not in my 'must-do' list  :roll:  :wink:  Because I have now on that cab a brand new TV, setup like a true arcade monitor 8)

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2007, 05:13:51 PM »
:D him this I see
I prefer to mend the original monitor if this is good conditions of use

I always look for old monitor to mend those that I have

this because I try to preserve the more possible the originality of the game
but this is one opinion of mine  :D
in every case ....... congratulations for this restauration  :!:  :!:

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# UK Road Trip # - Rolling Thunder from Namco !!!
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2007, 05:51:34 AM »
Quote from: "DarthNuno"
Thanks for the link Fred  :P  I plan to get a Rolling Thunder II and a Jamma swith, in order to play both version inside the cab.

pretty good idea
despite the fact rolling thunder 2 isn't really interesting compared to the first episode. Colours are much brighter but the evil guys look awfull