New bad boy inside the Lair... COMMANDO by Capcom / Data East

[Tyrem]

@Tyrem? Check your calender 

wut? i am ready when you are.

[DarthNuno]

let me ask you a question ? are you a good player of this game?

because even if i love it i'm ridiculous, i 'm only completed the first stage (and not at each play...)

Same as you... only passed the first stage, and very rarely the second one...
But now I've the real think, I'll try harder! 

[DarthNuno]

OK, let's see what we have here...



During the transport, the inner monitor bezel has moved. Also a good opportunity to clean that area...



I believe this is the original commando monitor   



Let's also clean the main bezel, which is a simple piece of cardboard printed 



Let's have a look inside the cab...



Original Capcom board, but weird they used this kind of adapter?



Sooo... the game works...



...but ... no sound! Basic checks done (speaker, continuity wires, dip swith, knob volume...) still no sound!
Must be a PCB issue. 

I've just bought another board. Waiting for delivery....

[old school]

Same as you... only passed the first stage, and very rarely the second one...
But now I've the real think, I'll try harder! 

That's the way to do it

 

[DarthNuno]

Got an other original board that should be 100% working. Let's install it :



Cool, it works...and the sounds are back...yehaaaw 

Now the only thing to do on this cab would be to perform a monitor capkit, that would allow me to set a full screen picture (cannot reach the extreme top/bottom of the screen) :



But this absolutely not a problem for me... I'm now enjoying to play this game! Far better than the Amstrad CPC version I used to play loong time ago! 
I increase my high score at almost each game (and I go to area 3 all the time)...



Commando rulez! 

[old school]

Such  a great game

i see it's close from your rolling thunder