Really appreciate the kind words as always man and it’s a pretty fun game! Hope you are doing well and i might have to check out the other version here someday as well.

I'm sure you will be able to get your chance some day. Definitely doesn't always work out like this. I've got a stackpile of broken boards that need a lot more work. Thanks for the positivity and sending it right back at you! Next time you come across a console that needs some work, hopefully you can get it running again!!

Love how you spelled it the same way! Yes, Tetris lives again to fight another day

Yeah, it was a real bummer to see that leg was toast, but it was a fun little repair to get it back up and running!

Very cool observation there. I may have to revisit the tengen version again as I can't remember it all that much. Thanks for checking the vid out!

One leg at a time lol😅

It may very well have. Some of these boards kept high scores without a battery so it's completely possible Thanks for watching!

It's almost as if Tengen's NES game was just a home-version of the arcade game. Superior to Nintendo's offering, however.

@Code7Unltd To be honest Tengen's version IS INDEED far superior than the official Nintendo release.

It was really wild and caught me off guard, I thought to myself, what kind of music is this? Lol. That explains where it might have come from. As for the smello o vision, you might be one of the rare ones who enjoys the flux and toxic fumes 😅 it may happen someday though! Thanks as always for chiming in

​@@Code7Unltdreally interesting point. I never played the tengen one enough to remember the music but it's definitely a neat game here

Being from Southeast Asia a majority of the cartridges for the FamiCom one could buy here at the time were either unlicensed stuff, illegal Taiwanese Pirated copies or seemingly legit ones, you can tell because legit copies come in their boxes and have a manual with mostly Japanese text. So it was only natural for us to have played the unlicensed Tengen version of Tetris instead of the official Nintendo version. Also it is ABSOLUTELY rare to find anyone with an NES back then as FamiClones were what was commonly sold here. If you had an NES it meant you had U.S. expat relatives.

Thanks a lot here Acc! gotta keep them out of the scrap pile as long as I can and not so much time to spend on them! Ill keep em coming though

Thank you so much WWP! It's great to see you still out there and making the most of life and whatever it throws at you. Hopefully I can keep up with the different name here but always glad to see posts from you. Thanks again and wishing you the best

@@lukemorse1 Thanks for your kind comment. I'm glad to be part of this awesome retro gaming community. I hope next year I get to work on more consoles and arcade cabinets. Now I'm in the middle of completing NBA Jam cab.

Thanks for the kind words, always good to get these oldies working again!

It's probably the monitor self adjusting 😅

Thanks as always man. Yeah, I was thinking "oh no, did I make it worse!?" Definitely enough to get the anxiety pumping lol. Hope to get through these other boards here soon as well

Lmao! 😂 Love it

Haha, I totally know what you mean man. Yeah, these can be tricky and I almost missed it myself. Glad I was able to shed some light on this one though! Thanks for popping in to watch the madness unfold bro

Thanks again Jacob for coming along for the ride

Appreciate it! These classics deserve to be playable again.

Alec!! Always cool to see old faces! Gotta love the old SNK stuff for sure, they really did it well. Hope you are recovery is going well and you had a good Thanksgiving

Really really kind of you to say that, I honestly appreciate the positivity. Just trying to keep these boards off the scrap pile and sharing my adventures along the way. Hopefully more fun to be had here soon and thanks a lot kodoyama!

Thanks a million brother! I had no idea what this board was either until I started poking around on it. Glad I was able to figure out the controls and wiring! On top of that, it's great to see it up and running once again. Thank you for the opportunity to breathe new life into these old boards!

Thank you benten! It sure does feel like Christmas over here, that's for sure lol. Thank you for checking out the vids!

For sure! SNK really did know what they were doing from the beginning with even some of these earlier titles and its no wonder the neo geo was such a success!

@@lukemorse1 The Neo Geo, all these years later, is still prominent in arcades, at least in Australia. What an absolutely phenomenal system. Decades ahead of it's time. Shame the traces on the PCB's are so shit. Won't be long before we have no Neo Geos left. I'm lucky enough to still have a fully working 4 slot MVS :)

Haha, yeah, unfortunately no missing or broken parts on this one, just needed a harness and some power to get it up and running again. Hope the pinouts can help someone else out there someday. Thanks as always!

Thank you NeonGenesisPlatinum! really thankful for the support and its my pleasure to bring what I can in terms of repairs to the arcade community. hope you are doing great and thanks a million again for the kind words!

@@lukemorse1 Total LEGEND! thanks mate.

Thanks DT! glad to have gotten this one running again and hopefully the pinouts will help out others as well

Really kind of you to say there valintine! We have Thanksgiving here in Japan but getting the turkey requires a trip down to costco lol. If you celebrate it yourself, I hope you also have a nice Thanksgiving and Thanks for always Giving those positive vibes and comments! Thats what Im thankful for! Take care and catch you on the next one

Really appreciate that there nfang as usual! Thats cool to see you are getting into pcb repair. I would recommend finding some common boards that have a lot of repair information on the net or ones that are mostly TTL chips as they are easier to work on compared to later 90's boards that have a lot of custom IC's. Whatever board you decide on, just give it your best shot and see if you can fix it. If you cant, put it up for sale stating that it isnt working and the things you tried to do to fix it and Im sure someone (like me) will come along and try to repair it. Experience is experience. As for the Raspberry Pi there is quite a lot of information as to how to program it and use it on the net so that is also a great way to go! Nevertheless, good luck with the repairs and dont worry about making mistakes with the boards, you learn from that as well!

Yes.

The highest voltage found on arcade boards is generally 12V. A newborn baby could safely handle them.

How about the board itself, if say the cable connections suddenly come loose while handling it and it's still powered on?

Hey Cahos. Good question there. Generally there is no problem unless you are wearing some kind of conductive jewelry or pulling on the board itself. You also have to be aware of what the board is setting on for example a rubber, wood, or plastic support and make sure it isnt on something metal. The more comfortable you get with these boards you will know what you can/cant do with them. As you mentioned below, sometimes the harness can come loose if you arent careful but generally the Jamma harnesses when disconnected will just cause the board to stop working. If the ends of your cables on the edge connector arent covered or too long, those can bridge together and short out on each other. To stay on the safe side, you can always keep the board on a non-conductive surface and test it without moving it to avoid any potential disasters😁 hope that helps out

Thanks man. Not too much in terms of repairs on this one but hope that the pinout info works for someone else. I totally get what you mean about the Sega Ninja feel for sure! Hope you are having a great day

​@@lukemorse1All good, a cold one over here in UK right now. 😎🤘

Thank you as always WWP!! really appreciate that a lot. I can only hope this will help out someone else down the line. Happy Thanksgiving to you too!! Happy Turkey Day!!

Thanks mrbrooks! I appreciate that!

Thanks Jeremy! very interesting info there and very cool to hear about the background on these old companies.

Thanks as always Jacob! Really glad I can bring back that nostalgia for ya 😄

​@@lukemorse1this is exactly why you're one of my favorites.

Haha, just one step at a time here but always glad to see another board saved from the grave! Thanks Cahos!

Lol, I can totally hear that for sure! especially when you test different parts with the same timing you could say "dinner's ready" with all the beeping

I definitely dont mind the easy fixes from time to time lol. Thanks Evaldas!

I know right? I suppose its just how much people feel like messing around with them to get them running again but glad to have this one off the scrap pile