As someone who used to own, restore and repair arcade machines - you were right about the buttons - earlier arcade machines used leaf switches, newer ones used micro switches. Leaf switches were great, but sometimes needed adjustments as the ‘leafs’ would get too close together meaning there wasn’t enough travel in the buttons or joysticks
Interesting to know Kip Hakes. I used to work in arcades for years repairing video games and fruit machines, pinball machines etc. I've still got a box of old boards somewhere, and I think an original space invaders pt ii board too! Yes the old games like space invaders, galaxian etc used leaf switches I remember trying to clean the contacts on them!
@@kiphakes Wow 15! I had a super nintendo arcade cabinet with 3 games on it for years and made a loom so you could plug jamma pcbs into it. It was slightly unusual as it had joysticks and not the snes pads. Sold it a few years back now, but still got a box full of jamma boards somewhere.
The internals on these Pandora sets are always so lovely to work on. Yeah they're cheaply made, but it's all bog standard pinnings and software, and there's nothing going on you can't understand by simply looking at it. The fun part is putting what you like in place of the cheap stock parts.
Those buttons are standard 30mm. Anything will work (try Sanwa, Seimitsu, or equivalent clones). Terminal orientation doesn't matter, you can connect the buttons either way. The clear part for the stick you kept calling the gate is indeed the gate. :) If you want to add more strength to the PCB repair, desolder the micro switches and add epoxy across the top of the cracks. Great work!
well, sort of. The clear part is the base plate, the center part of that base plate should have a removable round gate, they make hexagonal 8-way, circular and square gates, If you remove the base plate, you can push/turn the gate to remove it. The square gate has the added bonus of being able to rotate 45 degrees to switch from square (8-way) to diamond (4-way) operation, which comes in handy for old games that used a 4-way like Pac-Man. any sanwa-style gate will work, or you can 3D print gates as well. Some of the knock-off joysticks have a one-piece baseplate/gate. Even on my personal pandora clone, the gates can be replaced. One last tip: replace the screws holding he lid closed with thumbscrews; makes it easy to open and change gates, bad buttons, etc. These are easy to mod.
I have to say I really appreciate the fact that you clean the flux after soldering - it always bothers me when people leave the dirt and gunk on the boards and yours looks so much better. My OCD is satisfied.
I love these vids where you're repairing a cracked board. One of your vids like this was the "Ah-ha" moment for me. I finally felt like I understood enough to try my hand at these kinds of repairs. Just resurrected a cracked PCB :) My first of (what I hope to be) many. Thanks so much, Steve!
I am still watching the video. The song that came up when he turned the console/joystick thing on is called "Break Point" by Garth Knight Edit: Great repair, Steve!
Sanwa buttons are great. I use them on machinery control panels as they're so much cheaper than dedicated industrial stuff and are equally as reliable.
I watch a bunch of repair channels but because of yours it inspired me to try repairing. Got my kit ready and am attempting to put a mod chip MM3 on a PS1. it was because you admit when you don't know the answer. I was like....wait...you don't have to be an ultra pro to solder? Lol. Also YOU. Brings so much personality to it all. Your existence will end up getting me in trouble as I spend 75% of my day watching you instead of working. Eventually ill be caught. Is what it is.
❤ I always wanted to have one for myself but I guess I missed to have it while being a kid 😔.. still that nostalgic feeling for old consoles and games live inside me somewhere
I have a powkiddy x16 that is need of repair the reset button is broke I was wondering if I could send it to you to fix and you can fix it and keep it I just want to see a video with it being fixed it would be so cool
I own one of those Pandora boxes. Currently the best thing to buy are sanwa. Also you can connect USB joysticks to it and have three or four plates playing at the same time. Great video I really enjoyed it.
If you need to add extra strength to your superglue joins then add a small amount of baking soda to the glue. It adds structure to your mend and creates a solid chunk off matieral that is really strong
Great faults to fix , I would have used epoxy rather than super glue as it’s much stronger if you can brace it from back even better but I would have been happy with this as all faults easy to diagnose and sort , enjoy 👍
I would've glued the PCB like you did, but I would've used a small piece of wire between the endpoints of the PCB traces instead of repairing the trace itself. The soldered repairpoint is under mechanical stress now and prone to breaking / microfractures. A wire between the points where you checked continuity will survive flexing of the PCB halves. Other than that: as always, enjoyed your video. It truly is something I look forward to each week! Keep up the awesomeness! Don't ever change Steve!
I know it's been a while since you did this but I have had great success using JB weld to repair broken PCBs. It's not just a matter is gluing the split pieces back together but also reinforcing them. I'll often use a small aluminium washer and completely cover it with the JB weld. So far I've never had one break in the same place. With these joysticks being a heavy use part I can imagine those small sections are VERY high stress and prone to breaking.
those kind of breaks sadly come up often in old crt tv repair, if you're ever concerned about the ruggedness of a patched break just use some cut capacitor leg and scrape back more of the coating than you need, then solder the leg across to act as a brace on the repair, it'll always lookm a bit frankenstein but it'll last probably longer than the rest of the board.
I think any break should be bridged and the wire cut not wiggled , I could see one of the repaired track wires start to loosen as it was twisted , finally I'm sure there are more appropriate gauged wire for bridging .. very interesting channel !
Play around with some baking soda and super glue, so you can add that reinforcing trick to your tool box! And using more substantial copper wire over a longer length also can add some structural support.
You beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣 I was shouting at the screen "Use longer/heavier wire... help spread the stress across the crack" 👍 And the baking soda tip is a must. I use it all the time and have even used a gob of it to replace nasty, broken, plastic, moulded stud posts. Works like a charm 🤛 Cheers 🍺
@@Peter_A1466 Perfect. Good call but I suspect some tracks SSF has done recently would be a tad to narrow; excellent for reinforced grounds though. I'll remember that one for the future. Cheers 🍺
I’m into arcade but i was never into watching how they are fixed till your channel showed up randomly, now I’ve watched all your videos 😂 i just love them, you are one of my favorite youtubers thank you for making my day’s
I wonder if something was dropped right on that joystick and smashed it through (and broken the button.) Or someone got REALLY mad and hit it a bit too hard....
14:45 you missed a perfect opportunity to make a Matchbox Twenty-Bent reference. I can picture that little plastic thing saying: “Can you help me I'm bent? I'm so scared that I'll never Get put back together.” I digress. Another brilliant video, Mr. Fix. Can’t wait for the next one!
well done steve i am going to buy one of these because i miss the old arcade shops back where you could go and play arcade games lol love the channel keep it up
There are a lot of Fixit youtube channels. But none with such a funny and charismatic person like you! I even whitelisted your channel for sponsorblock so i can hear your rap haha. Keep em coming and take care!
Just wanted to tell you I love your videos! I come down to my man cave every Saturday in hopes to watch a new vid from you! I watch your vids on my lg oled and have no way to comment. Today I watched this video and loved it. Went to my phone just to comment. I do tinkering just like you but love your videos and positive attitude! Much love from 🇺🇸
I built a retro arcade system a year or two ago. I got a modernish cabinet and hooked up a pc and bought a dual controller set. Came with 2 joysticks and 18 buttons. Cost about £25 from Amazon. The buttons have LED's in them so it all lights up nicely.
Wow new hair, flashy new studio I'm loving it! I've been watching your videos for a year and it's been fun watching your channel grow. Keep up the great work 👍
Love the new workshop/den/cave of broken stuff. As an idea would an additional small TV in front of you and a HDMI splitter work? We get to see the big telly behind you, you can watch the same thing on your small TV.
id swap to pause button on player 2, not needed and you could play with all six on both! nice fix! ive built my own arcade sticks so this is one fix i could’ve actually done myself!
Just wanted to let you know i enjoy the channel so much that I’ve been binge watching every video for about two weeks 😂 probably seen everything 3 or 4 times
Awesome vid, Steve! Nice setup you got there in the new house! Those arcade all-in-one boards were quite the rage a few years ago. Some of 'em are real nice. Some of 'em. Not the one you got. :P Also, burning what splat now between your where? ;) Hope you recover from that fast!
Very nice repair. I didn't think you'd bother repairing that broken PCB but I'm very glad you did. Very satisfying to watch. Where do I go to get solder mask and the UV light to go with it? I have yet to add these to my arsenal as I don't usually attempt trace repair, though you made it look easy enough that I'm interested now.
I remember trying to get a "broken" Pandora's Box on eBay, only for it to actually work perfectly fine. (the seller said he couldn't get the HDMI to display. It was almost certainly just a TV compatibility issue in retrospect.) Now I got an excess of Pandora's Box systems in my house.
im having some issues getting a previously working Pandoras box 5 working. I see the initial PANDORA splash screen come up and then nothing. Im still lookin for troubleshooting steps. Wondering if i'll have to flash it or upgrade the firmware. I just have no idea what gets me into the bios or if there even is a bios or some pre os environment on these things.
i manage a friends Airbnb and it is a nice feature to have it in the game room. I even like playing it once in a while which is why im trying to fix it!
It was a delightful surprise to see you Guile turtling at the end there. For the whole video I was wondering if you were going to know what you were doing lol
The joystick board should be fine as long as the clear plastic joystick cage at the bottom stays in place. The reason the board broke was because the clear plastic part came off, it limits the travel of the joystick and if it isn't there, the player can over drive the stick and over travel the micro switches. This puts force and strain on the micro switches and PCB.
arcade stuff is fairly easy to work with. Each input has its own wire and everything is common ground, so you're just bringing the input lines low to activate them. Arcade parts were designed with maintenance in mind, as they were quite expensive and were supposed to last a VERY long time to justify them only costing a quarter or two to play.
thats so cool great work you have done since Id watched your video on this Im planing pick one up at Amazon hopefully they sell that, I wanna play Ms Pacman on it
The arcade buttons you're thinking about are the leaf spring style on the older machines before the micro switch. OK, I see I am not the only one to say this, anyway keep up the great work of fixing these items.
Due to the joystick PCB being subjected to physical force I would have ran small hook-up wire to solder points further away from those breaks. I also use Lead free for joints on connectors and wires that have tension in some aspect. Leaded for general component soldering.
From the looks of that, those switches are called Alps Switches, mainly used in mechanical keyboards. If the switch mechanism is broken you could find a replacement easily from China. Also polarity would not matter as long as they close the circuit. There are no diodes involved in the mechanism. Well done Stez, quite good trace repair and general fix overall. Love your work!
@@michaelstanley5215 Yup, just like Cherry MX switches. Cherry is the brand and OG creators of the switches, but other brands make "cherry style" switches as well. These switches from other brands are still called Cherry (compatible) Switches.
As someone who used to own, restore and repair arcade machines - you were right about the buttons - earlier arcade machines used leaf switches, newer ones used micro switches. Leaf switches were great, but sometimes needed adjustments as the ‘leafs’ would get too close together meaning there wasn’t enough travel in the buttons or joysticks
Ah thanks Kip! That makes sense. I've just ordered some Sanwa buttons from Amazon... hopefully they'll be genuine and the leaf-y kind! 😁
Interesting to know Kip Hakes. I used to work in arcades for years repairing video games and fruit machines, pinball machines etc. I've still got a box of old boards somewhere, and I think an original space invaders pt ii board too! Yes the old games like space invaders, galaxian etc used leaf switches I remember trying to clean the contacts on them!
@@BuyitFixit I used to have them in my house.. had 15 at my best / worst 😅
@@kiphakes Wow 15! I had a super nintendo arcade cabinet with 3 games on it for years and made a loom so you could plug jamma pcbs into it. It was slightly unusual as it had joysticks and not the snes pads. Sold it a few years back now, but still got a box full of jamma boards somewhere.
@@spikey911usasuppose when leaf switches are hard to find sanwa is next best option but see your view
"It's bent, it's not straight and someone has been too vigorous with the knob" - summed me up perfectly 😅
Ayo wtf 🤨🤨🤨📸
😂 nice.
The internals on these Pandora sets are always so lovely to work on. Yeah they're cheaply made, but it's all bog standard pinnings and software, and there's nothing going on you can't understand by simply looking at it. The fun part is putting what you like in place of the cheap stock parts.
Those buttons are standard 30mm. Anything will work (try Sanwa, Seimitsu, or equivalent clones). Terminal orientation doesn't matter, you can connect the buttons either way.
The clear part for the stick you kept calling the gate is indeed the gate. :)
If you want to add more strength to the PCB repair, desolder the micro switches and add epoxy across the top of the cracks.
Great work!
well, sort of. The clear part is the base plate, the center part of that base plate should have a removable round gate, they make hexagonal 8-way, circular and square gates, If you remove the base plate, you can push/turn the gate to remove it. The square gate has the added bonus of being able to rotate 45 degrees to switch from square (8-way) to diamond (4-way) operation, which comes in handy for old games that used a 4-way like Pac-Man. any sanwa-style gate will work, or you can 3D print gates as well. Some of the knock-off joysticks have a one-piece baseplate/gate. Even on my personal pandora clone, the gates can be replaced. One last tip: replace the screws holding he lid closed with thumbscrews; makes it easy to open and change gates, bad buttons, etc. These are easy to mod.
I have to say I really appreciate the fact that you clean the flux after soldering - it always bothers me when people leave the dirt and gunk on the boards and yours looks so much better. My OCD is satisfied.
I love these vids where you're repairing a cracked board. One of your vids like this was the "Ah-ha" moment for me. I finally felt like I understood enough to try my hand at these kinds of repairs. Just resurrected a cracked PCB :) My first of (what I hope to be) many. Thanks so much, Steve!
You've really opened up Pandora's box on this one Stez 😂
😂😂
This is one of your best videos. Fixing mechanical along with electrical is awesome.
I love that the sneeze made it into the final cut.
'I don't know much about anything.'
Oh Steve, you are my spirit animal.
Hey Steve, I am so happy that you were able to work out whatever issue was preventing these videos from not showing up earlier in the week!
Yey! Glad it's now working and you get the early access! 👍
@@StezStixFix I just need to decide if I want to watch early or wait until the Saturday release to keep up my usual Saturday routine, lol.
@@StezStixFix did you need to solder anything to get them showing up again?
I am still watching the video.
The song that came up when he turned the console/joystick thing on is called "Break Point" by Garth Knight
Edit:
Great repair, Steve!
You turn it on and immediately one starts hearing Eurobeat. Already this is good.
Steve, these fixes are getting really advanced and complicated. I hope not only your audience sees you improving. This went into Vince territory
Sanwa buttons are great. I use them on machinery control panels as they're so much cheaper than dedicated industrial stuff and are equally as reliable.
The new studio in the new house! Well done Stez, once again great content!
Thanks a lot
Thank you! Much appreciated 😍
i miss the settee
I need to set up a Patreon account for my next house! 😳
I watch a bunch of repair channels but because of yours it inspired me to try repairing. Got my kit ready and am attempting to put a mod chip MM3 on a PS1. it was because you admit when you don't know the answer. I was like....wait...you don't have to be an ultra pro to solder? Lol. Also YOU. Brings so much personality to it all. Your existence will end up getting me in trouble as I spend 75% of my day watching you instead of working. Eventually ill be caught. Is what it is.
Just watched my first Stez video and I was thoroughly entertained. Thank you, sir.
superglue and baking soda mixed makes a strong cement that could help give sturdiness to the broken board
❤ I always wanted to have one for myself but I guess I missed to have it while being a kid 😔.. still that nostalgic feeling for old consoles and games live inside me somewhere
It's good that Steve was able to buy a new house with his patreon money.
😂🤣
Dolls house you mean😂😂😂
I have a powkiddy x16 that is need of repair the reset button is broke I was wondering if I could send it to you to fix and you can fix it and keep it I just want to see a video with it being fixed it would be so cool
I own one of those Pandora boxes.
Currently the best thing to buy are sanwa.
Also you can connect USB joysticks to it and have three or four plates playing at the same time.
Great video I really enjoyed it.
Great to see your new shop/studio/fixing- place Steve! 👍 😁
Cheers Chris! 👍
If you need to add extra strength to your superglue joins then add a small amount of baking soda to the glue. It adds structure to your mend and creates a solid chunk off matieral that is really strong
Nice. Thought we were going to see you break a nail getting the button out. Thanks for brightening my day.
I love the longer videos and the sneeze made the whole thing better 😂
Great faults to fix , I would have used epoxy rather than super glue as it’s much stronger if you can brace it from back even better but I would have been happy with this as all faults easy to diagnose and sort , enjoy 👍
That was a great watch. Love the dry humour.
Solid!
I would've glued the PCB like you did, but I would've used a small piece of wire between the endpoints of the PCB traces instead of repairing the trace itself. The soldered repairpoint is under mechanical stress now and prone to breaking / microfractures. A wire between the points where you checked continuity will survive flexing of the PCB halves.
Other than that: as always, enjoyed your video. It truly is something I look forward to each week! Keep up the awesomeness! Don't ever change Steve!
oooo... really good point. Well done. Cheers 🍺
Your a genius for fixing things thats why i enjoy your videos
1st time winning at a game 😅 congrats Steve !!
🤣 I got beat in Round 2!
@@StezStixFix hahaha I knew you were hiding stuff from us 🤣
I know it's been a while since you did this but I have had great success using JB weld to repair broken PCBs. It's not just a matter is gluing the split pieces back together but also reinforcing them. I'll often use a small aluminium washer and completely cover it with the JB weld. So far I've never had one break in the same place. With these joysticks being a heavy use part I can imagine those small sections are VERY high stress and prone to breaking.
The stare after you said "bit to vigorous with the knob" priceless
Great job Steve glad you got it up and running again keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing what you got up next 👍
Great video, new gaff looks fantastic love the TV on the wall and the 100k YT subscribed badge shows all ur hard work is worth it, thanks bud!!
Cheers OBM! Much appreciated 👍
gosh this one was so satisfying to watch - wow - best vid yet - thanks Steve
Appreciate the musical effort. Top notch. The repairs are appreciated as well as Gordon
Great vid. Getting addicted to these, so watching some of the older ones.
Dissolve some plexiglass in acetone, for the strongest superglue ever
those kind of breaks sadly come up often in old crt tv repair, if you're ever concerned about the ruggedness of a patched break just use some cut capacitor leg and scrape back more of the coating than you need, then solder the leg across to act as a brace on the repair, it'll always lookm a bit frankenstein but it'll last probably longer than the rest of the board.
I think any break should be bridged and the wire cut not wiggled , I could see one of the repaired track wires start to loosen as it was twisted , finally I'm sure there are more appropriate gauged wire for bridging .. very interesting channel !
Play around with some baking soda and super glue, so you can add that reinforcing trick to your tool box!
And using more substantial copper wire over a longer length also can add some structural support.
Graphite powder with super glue is even stronger, though I'm not sure if it would present connectivity issues when working around circuitry.
You beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣 I was shouting at the screen "Use longer/heavier wire... help spread the stress across the crack" 👍 And the baking soda tip is a must. I use it all the time and have even used a gob of it to replace nasty, broken, plastic, moulded stud posts. Works like a charm 🤛 Cheers 🍺
@@Bloke-in-Stokeold pieces of solder wick can also be very good for bridging wider tracks over a cracked board
@@Peter_A1466 Perfect. Good call but I suspect some tracks SSF has done recently would be a tad to narrow; excellent for reinforced grounds though. I'll remember that one for the future. Cheers 🍺
I was delighted that you chose to repair the joystick. Cyanoacrylate and baking soda can achieve wonders in repairing structural elements.
Loved the multiple fixes here. Good as new. I would love to see it when you get the switches replaced!
I’m into arcade but i was never into watching how they are fixed till your channel showed up randomly, now I’ve watched all your videos 😂 i just love them, you are one of my favorite youtubers thank you for making my day’s
You can use hot air at about 180 to gently soften plastic and coax it back to shape.
thats what i was think you could us a hair dryer or heat gun so you could get it back into shape
I can’t stop watching your videos Steve! You’ve inspired me, thank you 👍🏼
I wonder if something was dropped right on that joystick and smashed it through (and broken the button.) Or someone got REALLY mad and hit it a bit too hard....
Yeah, I'm thinking it was dropped/something dropped on it. It's possible that it was rage, but more likely it fell off the sofa!
It's probably rage induced.😂
I was thinking it fell off a table and landed face down. Or someone at night stepped on it. Could also be rage.
It was an attack of The Salty Monster 💀
If it hit the floor upside down, that would likely do something horrible to the joystick.
Thanks so much for singing a snippet of “Fill My Little World” by The Feeling! My fave band! Made my evening.
Hi Steve. I love your work mate. Solid. Add baking soda to super glue for stronger bond.
New graphics, new location, new everything, NICE!!
Wonderful to see the silver play button in the background 👏🏼 well deserved
Great stuff Steve and loving the new setup in the new gaff!! A1 fix as usual and great to see the silver YT badge on the wall in pride of place!!😃😃
😁 thanks Greg! Yeah, felt good to receive that silver play badge!
Joysticks/buttons are easy enough to replace but GJ repairing that PCB board.
14:45 you missed a perfect opportunity to make a Matchbox Twenty-Bent reference.
I can picture that little plastic thing saying:
“Can you help me I'm bent?
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together.”
I digress. Another brilliant video, Mr. Fix. Can’t wait for the next one!
well done steve i am going to buy one of these because i miss the old arcade shops back where you could go and play arcade games lol love the channel keep it up
Your enthusiasm is energetic 😊
There are a lot of Fixit youtube channels. But none with such a funny and charismatic person like you! I even whitelisted your channel for sponsorblock so i can hear your rap haha. Keep em coming and take care!
Just wanted to tell you I love your videos! I come down to my man cave every Saturday in hopes to watch a new vid from you! I watch your vids on my lg oled and have no way to comment. Today I watched this video and loved it. Went to my phone just to comment. I do tinkering just like you but love your videos and positive attitude! Much love from 🇺🇸
I built a retro arcade system a year or two ago. I got a modernish cabinet and hooked up a pc and bought a dual controller set. Came with 2 joysticks and 18 buttons. Cost about £25 from Amazon. The buttons have LED's in them so it all lights up nicely.
Love the new setup at the new house! And the 100k button from UA-cam! Congrats!!! You deserve it :)
As always great job. I would have taken the button from play paws and just wired up some random button till new one came in. Cheers
Great job Steve 👍Nice👍
Brilliant fix Steve the buttons are prob quiet cheap connect more led strips to illuminate the box more
Wow new hair, flashy new studio I'm loving it! I've been watching your videos for a year and it's been fun watching your channel grow. Keep up the great work 👍
Your video's are as funny as they are informative. Love each one.. trying to catch up on all your video's
Love the new workshop/den/cave of broken stuff. As an idea would an additional small TV in front of you and a HDMI splitter work? We get to see the big telly behind you, you can watch the same thing on your small TV.
The music starting at 1:42 is "Garth Knight - Break Point"
id swap to pause button on player 2, not needed and you could play with all six on both! nice fix! ive built my own arcade sticks so this is one fix i could’ve actually done myself!
Steve, when you patch traces like that, grind away more and use some thin wire to re-enforce the repair, it will also help bridge the solder.
Being honest, this channel is really to push your singing/rap career, isn't it? You just fix stuff for fun. 🤣😂🤣 Great video, as usual!
Just wanted to let you know i enjoy the channel so much that I’ve been binge watching every video for about two weeks 😂 probably seen everything 3 or 4 times
I built one of these a few years ago. Got 2 sanwa joysticks all the buttons and 2 joystick/button modules to USB and a raspberry pi inside.
18:18 love the pause from the music montage
£50 😂😂😂😂love see you fix things out the bin. Keep doing it.😊
Thats a wild piece of gear! Oh boy
Hi, Steve, we were wondering if your store products would increase...
some mugs? maybe some t-shirts?? Thank you... your work is great fun to watch!!
Great episode, nice fix and loved the production and the music
This is such a fun repair channel.
Awesome vid, Steve! Nice setup you got there in the new house! Those arcade all-in-one boards were quite the rage a few years ago. Some of 'em are real nice. Some of 'em. Not the one you got. :P
Also, burning what splat now between your where? ;) Hope you recover from that fast!
😂 yeah, i'm sure there are better ones out there. I'm enjoying this one though, it's got some decent games on it and is playable!
For japanese joysticks I recommend Sanwa or Seimitsu. Sanwa is makes great fighter sticks but I like Seimtisu's LS-32 for shmup style games.
"in-built speaker" a.k.a. "built-in speaker" - enjoyable as always.
Very nice repair. I didn't think you'd bother repairing that broken PCB but I'm very glad you did. Very satisfying to watch. Where do I go to get solder mask and the UV light to go with it? I have yet to add these to my arsenal as I don't usually attempt trace repair, though you made it look easy enough that I'm interested now.
we will get a Tour of the new "Studio" at some point aswell. Looks pretty neat now and much bigger than the old Setup.
I remember trying to get a "broken" Pandora's Box on eBay, only for it to actually work perfectly fine. (the seller said he couldn't get the HDMI to display. It was almost certainly just a TV compatibility issue in retrospect.)
Now I got an excess of Pandora's Box systems in my house.
im having some issues getting a previously working Pandoras box 5 working. I see the initial PANDORA splash screen come up and then nothing. Im still lookin for troubleshooting steps. Wondering if i'll have to flash it or upgrade the firmware. I just have no idea what gets me into the bios or if there even is a bios or some pre os environment on these things.
i manage a friends Airbnb and it is a nice feature to have it in the game room. I even like playing it once in a while which is why im trying to fix it!
I watched this video a few weeks ago when I was in the bath, not sure why you've republished it but I like your content anyway.
Got to hand it to you, as usual you find or come up with that weird piece of technology that I had long forgotten or one I never looked at before 😎✌
Love the silver play button in the background
It was a delightful surprise to see you Guile turtling at the end there. For the whole video I was wondering if you were going to know what you were doing lol
Awesome fix there Steve love your work
The joystick board should be fine as long as the clear plastic joystick cage at the bottom stays in place. The reason the board broke was because the clear plastic part came off, it limits the travel of the joystick and if it isn't there, the player can over drive the stick and over travel the micro switches. This puts force and strain on the micro switches and PCB.
arcade stuff is fairly easy to work with. Each input has its own wire and everything is common ground, so you're just bringing the input lines low to activate them. Arcade parts were designed with maintenance in mind, as they were quite expensive and were supposed to last a VERY long time to justify them only costing a quarter or two to play.
thats so cool great work you have done since Id watched your video on this Im planing pick one up at Amazon hopefully they sell that, I wanna play Ms Pacman on it
Couple of nice new pads Steve 😎 also that play button arrived quickly?!?
Happy new repair room! Great fix :D
The arcade buttons you're thinking about are the leaf spring style on the older machines before the micro switch. OK, I see I am not the only one to say this, anyway keep up the great work of fixing these items.
Your videos make me simply happy.
Good fix enjoyable to watch😊
Due to the joystick PCB being subjected to physical force I would have ran small hook-up wire to solder points further away from those breaks.
I also use Lead free for joints on connectors and wires that have tension in some aspect.
Leaded for general component soldering.
From the looks of that, those switches are called Alps Switches, mainly used in mechanical keyboards. If the switch mechanism is broken you could find a replacement easily from China. Also polarity would not matter as long as they close the circuit. There are no diodes involved in the mechanism. Well done Stez, quite good trace repair and general fix overall. Love your work!
Alps is a brand of mechanical switches, not a type of switch.
@@michaelstanley5215 Yup, just like Cherry MX switches. Cherry is the brand and OG creators of the switches, but other brands make "cherry style" switches as well. These switches from other brands are still called Cherry (compatible) Switches.
@@ardakilicdagi Thanks for the lecture, I guess? Cherry didn't actually invent mechanical keyboard switches, IBM did.
@@michaelstanley5215 And neither are Alps style switches. Their foot print is not compatible with each other. What is your point here?
@@ardakilicdagi I'm just trying to point out that you have no idea what you are talking about, yet you keep rambling on. Are you always like this?
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