Point Blank is now officially in its rightful spot now! This cab is done and fully playable. Artwork for the bezel and a Japanese marquee is all that I am after
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There is light at the end of a very long tunnel!
The light at the end of the tunnel is so close with this cab! With the video issues now solved, it’s now time to get the cab back to working order – first order of business was doing a general clean and fixing up a few nuances on the cab. Continue Reading
Sync Issue Discussion
Let’s now talk Point Blank 1 and this damn stupid sync issue! This is how I know I have sync issues when I play Point Blank Notice how the squares aren’t square? When I use the EMI filter with the resistor pcb ‘out’ going to the game pcb and ‘in’ Continue Reading
Point Blank Monitor Calibration
Spent some time the other night calibrating the monitor. I don’t know if I’m going to bother with corner convergence, I’ve been down that route before with the Blast City and it’s one quite annoying job You can clearly see corner convergence being a problem After enough time with the Continue Reading
Point Blank Breakthrough!
After finally admitting defeat the other day, I started thinking about how to install the game using JAMMA. When I purchased a Point Blank PCB, I was also given a Point Blank wiring harness with the JAMMA edge connector so I thought I’d use that and retro fit it into Continue Reading
Point Blank Troubleshooting
Here’s what I’ve done so far My next test is to bother DRAGONKZ and connect both my Point Blank 1 and Point Blank 2’s with their respective EMI Filter Boards and see if it also exhibits the same issue to completely rule out the EMI Filter boards being the issue. Continue Reading
Tube Swap
I had a couple of hours Saturday morning to get the tube swap going. First order of business is to put the cabs side by side so I can just slide the frame from one cab to another Slide the tube from the Point Blank cab, placed it on the Continue Reading
Dedicated Point Blank Machine
A dedicated Point Blank machine has been in the “want to buy” for many years. I can now officially say, one of my last grails has been purchased! Time Crisis 1 can now be sold off and this will replace it. Got delivery of this cab last Monday and when Continue Reading
Noir HD Upgrade
It’s almost been 3 years since both these Noirs had anything done to them. With SF6 releasing on Friday, it was only natural for things to get upgraded. I decided to upgrade my other HD cabs (will post about that in another thread) so the noir by default got the Continue Reading
Marquees have light
Bought another T5 led to fit on the noir. Removed the old ballast, wired it up to some connectors. Turned it on and bob’s your uncle! God the monitors on these cabs are amazing! Considering these are 12 yo 720p lcds, they still look amazing! Next step was to sort Continue Reading