Top tip: You can use an empty BIC pen to remove those plastic board fixings. :)
@guerrillaradio99536 ай бұрын
I feel as though I USED to know this....must be getting old....
@jasonvonhaartman33256 ай бұрын
I was going to say that lol
@Darth-.-Vaper6 ай бұрын
BIC pen lid? On the ROMs?
@Jagabot_Esq.6 ай бұрын
@@Darth-.-Vaper No, the white plastic stand off legs. The Bic pen (not the lid, just the clear shaft) slides over the anchor pins perfectly and compresses them. Fairly common on all sorts of electronics from the 90s.
@crunchyfrog5557 ай бұрын
Digging through old operators' clearance stuff is where the gold has always been frankly. Back in the late 1980s, a buddy of mine (since passed, sadly) made a wedge of cash from writing games, and we went to our local seaside town (Skegness) and asked arcades if we could nose through their crap to see what was hanging around they didn't want. We got a dozen in our first jaunt that were due to be just thrown in the sea (I'm not sure whether they were joking about that). Much of what we saw then, and through later visits, was the stuff abandoned in corners were often the rare stuff that didn't do well or people didn't understand or whatever. These were often games we loved. I had a Quasar unit (as I was familiar with that from my parents having it in their pub), but I always worried about those we couldn't get or maybe missed. I find it so brilliant that people like yourself are doing their best to rescue and restore a lot of these games which would otherwise be lost forever.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thank you I find it extremely exciting finding games I’ve never played before it’s like being a kid all over again 😊 But your right the best places to find this stuff is ex operators it’s a just shame most have them have gone now but stuff is still out their of your lucky.
@crunchyfrog5557 ай бұрын
@@TheArcadeArchive Yup, it does get harder and part of me wonders the inevitable point of how many forgotten sheds there are out there with rare boards rotting away? Thankfully people like yourself will help with that :)
@TheInfiniteMiseryJumper7 ай бұрын
The collective you guys are creating is amazing, thank you for sharing all the hard work!
@matt2021_a6 ай бұрын
my thoughts exactly.
@IainMetcalf6 ай бұрын
OMG this game has eluded me for many years and I thought I was imagining it. Asked on FB a few year back and got the usual Buck Rogers or Galaxy Force replies! I remembered playing this on the Ferry to France from Dover mid 80's on a school trip to Holland. Bombjack was on the other side of the room in a lounge area and this was sat there drawing you in but most of the kids were on playing Bombjack. Finally after all these years!!
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
I love a story like this as its happened to me, I could remember the game but not the name. Fantastic 😎👍
@lennyvalentin64855 ай бұрын
I have very fond memories of playing Psychic 5 by Nihon Maicom Kaihatsu on a ferry sometime in my 1980s teenage years. It was fun, but I didn't manage to get anywhere. Overall, Burger Time saw more use from me and the other kids in my swim club. :) The love in my heart I have for these old-style stand-up arcade games simply cannot be expressed in human terms. It's impossible. So sad that the kids growing up today have no concept of any of this stuff - high-end gaming was something you did *outside* of the home, by stuffing countless coins into a big ole fiberboard box with its own dedicated video screen. Like corded phones with a rotary dial, something they've never heard of before... :D
@freednighthawk6 ай бұрын
Trick for cutting paint brushes down cleanly: Wrap the bristles in tape, as tightly as you can get, then cut through the tape.
@system11yt7 ай бұрын
Longer bristles work better but get a firm brush type. Splendor Blast is tremendously expensive by the way and highly desirable, look after it.
@user-gc6ce9wo4w7 ай бұрын
Really enjoyable video guys thank you! Almost verged on an Antiques Roadshow style reveal there! "Well Sir, your ancient historical dusty old PCB is... THIS valuable!" 😄
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thank you glad you enjoyed it
@starrybear97786 ай бұрын
I see Turf Masters at the beginning. My all time favorite Neo-Geo game and still to this day my favorite golf game.
@Rocky11387 ай бұрын
I'm only 59 seconds in and I'm already blown away by the production quality of this video. Very good stuff. Looking forward to the rest!
@markkrusemer5266 ай бұрын
It's really great to see your enthusiasm and dedication on restoring these old games. One peice of advice, get large antistatic bags, install a high quality antistatic mat, don't forget to wear an antistatic bracelet all the while follow exactly the installation instructions and use of the aforementioned gear. This simple but effective setup can save you much time and effort by not damaging the ICs / electronics from a static discharge of any kind. Good luck and don't loose your drive. Cheers !
@rovcanada16 ай бұрын
I agree 100%. I used to deal with tons of PCB's in my former trade (subsea ROV's), and most were uncoated. One unprotected touch on those old RAM units was all it took! Frankly, I was not surprised when "RAM error" flashed on the diagnostics.
@Thorn696_X6 ай бұрын
I absolutely love your video, I have no idea how I got here, but I'm happy to have found it. I once had a friend here in Michigan, bring over an EPROM programming board/cartridge for the Commodore 64. This allowed him to read and write (flash) ROM's. He left me with a couple of games that he had put together on one cartridge. This was in the early 80s, and I had forgotten all about it until I saw your video. The second part of these memories, was his tool kit. He had a few different EPROM and ROM pullers. You'd just push down and hold to remove the ROM and reverse it to install a ROM. Probably be real handy for someone in your line of work. Anyways, I just wanted to take a moment and say Thank you so much for the memories, and I look forward to viewing more of your work.
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
Aww that’s very kind of you and glad you got something from the video. I’m constantly learning about the hobby and it’s great have a good team around you with knowledge coming from every angle. Thanks for your kind words. Alex
@slot97 ай бұрын
Great video! Loved seeing and hearing a bit about the process of dumping arcade roms. The game looks really cool, too!
@proteque7 ай бұрын
I really like the steep rise in quality of your videos lately! I know how much work is behind that. so grats on pulling it off! Thanx for a great video.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thank you it’s much appreciated 👍
@maxrockatansky19816 ай бұрын
Vibes of Spy Hunter
@davess617 ай бұрын
I remember seeing and playing that as a wee nipper 🙂 It looks impressive even now!
@kenknight59837 ай бұрын
Didn't know such a game was possible in 1985. 1989 perhaps, but this really shows how quickly this tech evolved in the eighties. Eye opening
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Yea it’s pretty impressive of the year.
@125scratch27 ай бұрын
welcome to arcades, people only know consoles
@fuzzywzhe6 ай бұрын
@@125scratch2 There was a lot of hardware specialization done in the early days, now software is able to do it all.
@125scratch26 ай бұрын
@@fuzzywzhe for sure
@fuzzywzhe6 ай бұрын
@@125scratch2 I'm an electrical engineer. I didn't foresee our current technology being available until I was beyond dead. I can store a feature length film in quality that is completely acceptable to display in a movie theater on a $5 SD card and I can use a $100 toy machine to play it. The projector would be much more expensive, because they aren't sold in quantity. It's kind of crazy where we are. In the early 2000's it was literally illegal to sell PS2 video game machines to certain countries because they could be turned into Beowulf machines to do nuclear bomb simulation. Everybody has that ability today in their pocket today. I think we're near the end of it though. Computers aren't getting significantly faster every few years, and storage? Who needs storage? It's nuts. I have enough storage to get every single PS1 video game (every variant and version and re-release) - that's about 4TB or about $50 worth of disk drive.
@neil16377 ай бұрын
Really liked this Alex. Everything about this video is great to watch. From the unknowning of what's in the box, to peeling back the layers, hidden in the code. Shame the pcb didnt work as that would have been a nice end to the video, but hey, that's for Hollywood, this is the reality of the struggles to get and keep these old boards working. Hope you decide to do some more tech related videos as well as the restoration and game play stuff. Really good video, pal.
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
Thanks Neil Plenty more restoration videos to come mate 👍
@RetroRecollections7 ай бұрын
Interesting to see the process and it looks like you may have come across a not so common title. Looking forward to seeing the board up and running.
@Seftdelmer7 ай бұрын
What a great find well done. Looking forward to seeing other rarities, hopefully.
@Big-Mike6 ай бұрын
Glad this came up in my suggested videos as for some reason youtube had decided to unsub me from your channel! Which youtube seem to be doing quite a bit recently and I don't know why and its really annoying! Anyway rant over. Good to see you Alex what a cool and interesting video! That game looks incredible for 1985! And I've not seen anything like that before the snes came out which was 1992 that's just mind-blowing! Well now I'm resubbed to your channel I'm going to go back and see what else I've missed 😂 bloody youtube. Anyway hope your keeping well Alex and hopefully I'll be able to make another trip to the archive soon once my funds have recovered a bit after Christmas! Take it easy mate and hopefully see you soon cheers
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
Strange that Mike, your message got moved to approval as well. Anyway would be great to see you back down at the archive, hopefully we will have Splendor blast working and we could have a challenge 😎👍
@Loki-6 ай бұрын
Subbed and bell rung! I don't care about arcade stuff, but you peaked my curiosity.
@martianhighminder45397 ай бұрын
I can see the similarity to F-Zero, but the perspective in Splendor Blast also reminds me of the vertical sections in Konami's 1992 SNES/SFC shooter, Axelay. It definitely looks like a graphically ambitious game for the era, one that I hadn't heard about before, so thanks for sharing.
@stephenelliott70717 ай бұрын
A really interesting episode, looking forward to the updates on this board in the near future.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
I’ll definitely do a live stream of the game working at some point 👍
@ravensmadhouse756 ай бұрын
Ah... Memories. Reminds me of working with a retired vendor from Covington, KY, replacing BAD ROMs on the PCBs on the games he distributed using the EPROM tools.
@AintBigAintClever6 ай бұрын
I might sow the seeds of an idea here. You know the big carousel jukeboxes which would spin round, an arm would pick the chosen record and place it on the turntable? Think of that with arcade boards. You'd want interposers to bring JAMMA or whatever standard out to a wide-pitch contact assembly, keeping inputs, outputs and voltages all apart from each other. Two ways to do the jukeboxing, one option is a big, difficult to make carousel. The other is all the boards shelved, contacts-downwards, with a contact sled and ribbon run on a track, moving to the correct position then pushing up (either push the sled or push the entire track) to activate the board. If only I had the space, the time and all the parts :D
@crazylarryjr5 ай бұрын
The game you played Earlier (the car based one) appears similar, though the jump is different to a game i used to play called spy hunter. instead of a jump you has machine guns and the cabinet usually had a steering wheel, triggers for the guns and a shifter for high and low gear
@snowman50207 ай бұрын
Great work folks, interesting to see the whole process. Hope you keep posting this sort of stuff!
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thank you 👍
@Evercade_Effect7 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed the suspense and excitement to see what this game could be. I geeked out over the rom dump process. I really like what you all are doing over there for the retro gaming community.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thank you 😎👍
@billythekid33006 ай бұрын
I always wondered how roms were riped. As someone who's enjoyed playing old roms and reliving times from my childhood I want to say thanks to all those who have put the work into ripping them.
@Riprock2966 ай бұрын
What the reason for using a brush to clean the board over compressed air? Instant subscriber! Great channel! So glad it popped up on my home page
@CommentsAllowed6 ай бұрын
That is so cool! Preserving history like this is amazing.
@livinincalifornia6 ай бұрын
That's got to be the best intro on KZbin right there.
@freedomvigilant12346 ай бұрын
I am amazed at the PCB's that went into Arcade cabinets. It must have cost a fortune to design and build them.
@BirthFromFire6 ай бұрын
Such an interesting video! Thank you very much guys for your hard preservation work!
@petewooding37587 ай бұрын
Fascinating video, really interesting. Thank you for sharing!
@DaveNorthWest6 ай бұрын
I've played that game before. I remember the garage then leaving in a helicopter to the next level
@Rob.Coleman7 ай бұрын
Haven't heard of the game, but genuinely fascinating watching Richard dump the EPROM 👍. Hope you get it running soon 👍👍.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thanks Rob glad you enjoyed it
@willd62157 ай бұрын
It's interesting to see behind the scenes at the mill
@ryanreedgibson5 ай бұрын
My uncle Dan, who worked on robotics at the Phoenix CPU plant, made each of us kids a gaming console. It had an EPROM input that you would place the game chip in and play. I had hundreds of copied games when I was a kid. Pirated of course. Poor Dan died a couple years ago.
@VanDammage877 ай бұрын
Super interesting video! It's amazing how many games still aren't dumped into MAME.
@thawedcrumpet16827 ай бұрын
Cracking video, I love digital archaeology of hardware, old software and this really scratched that itch! Did I miss if you said this version was on MAME?
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Yea Splendor blast is in mame try it out it’s quite good 👍
@cptnkrenon7 ай бұрын
Missed that one back in the day. Impressive graphical effect for 1985, it would've eaten a lot of my pocket money. 😂
@rmrepairs7 ай бұрын
I love dumping roms, always exciting to see if it's not in mame. Also that first switch on to see if it works.
@retroarcadefan6 ай бұрын
Very cool find! The perspective motion seems odd on this game though, Hope you can get it up and running in the real machine! These finds are always one of the best things about collecting and emulation - preserving gaming history.
@mercuryvapoury7 ай бұрын
Thumbs up for the mention of "Equites". One of my favourite arcade games ever, and is one that's kept my interest in arcades going since I was a kid. The caravan park I used to go to had a tiny Equites cabinet with very many faults. It would often crash with a CPU exception error on the screen. I thought this was the same as "breaking" in a BASIC program. Waggling the joysticks and pressing buttons would make a letter appear, and I was convinced that if I could get LIST to appear, I could see the source code. Of course, I know now that I was just corrupting the data in the screen RAM, but it used to fascinate me. Every year, it would get worse, and in 1992, the last year I went there, it was just showing multicolours. I've never tried Splendor Blast, but it looks pretty frustrating!
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
I love these kind of stories from bitd, just a shame the game got worse for you. I remember playing Equites and remember thinking how unusual it was from anything I’d seen before. Still plays well today I think and Splendor blast but you have to be methodical in your game play as it’s not an all out racer.
@sammy611875 ай бұрын
Just discovered this channel, and man, am i glad I have always been obsessed with arcade history and culturei 'm looking forward to watching more cheers!! Also sooo many questions why can't the computer be turned off on Mondays??
@MrButtonpresser7 ай бұрын
Very cool indeed.
@electricadventures7 ай бұрын
Quite a cool looking game in the end, haven’t heard of it before. Nice discovery.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thanks Tony
@6ftS6 ай бұрын
that is a decent find... gotta love finding such gems from the past.
@davidretrogamesplayedbadly35337 ай бұрын
Interesting to see the process of discovering whats on the board, not a game i recall looks fun.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thanks Dave we have more 😊
@johnrickard85126 ай бұрын
There again we see Windows XP still in service. That OS DEFIANTLY refuses to die!
@arcadesunday45927 ай бұрын
Absolutely fascinating EPROM dump process, and grest game showcase. I'm definitely going to give this one a play !
@g4z-kb7ct7 ай бұрын
You might be surprised to know that dumping has been going on publicly for about 40 years and there are still currently active places where you can read about dumping work-in-progress documented in detail.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Give it a play through Matt would love to hear your opinion on your channel. Also I recommend Equites fantastic game.
@arcadesunday45927 ай бұрын
@g4z-kb7ct ah yea I'm absolutely cognisent of the long running, and ongoing efforts of the amazing people who dump and repair these boards. It's amazing work which does not always get the recognition it deserves. I've been involved in the classic Arcade community for a long time, so it's always interesting to see a possible "new" game / ROM version! Cheers for now!
@sheep836 ай бұрын
Very cool, new one on me, never seen that before. I see the similarities to F-Zero, but my first thought was it looks and plays similar to Alleykat on the C64. I wonder if Andrew Braybrook saw this in 1985? Alleykat was 1986 so the timeframe is spot on.
@plonk4206 ай бұрын
i assisted in a small number visual reads with the caps 0ff project. wish i'd done more before they finished. and i'd love to do it again, too, if anyone has to decap some chips in order to read them again!
@MrG-.-6 ай бұрын
Make sure you use a brush with natural fibre bristles. Plastic bristle brushes can generate static when you move them around quickly..... I am not sure how cutting the brush down helps but I have a selection of natural fibre brushes in different sizes bought from a local art shop.
@senilyDeluxe7 ай бұрын
We got a bunch of undumped games in our storage, but I neither know if, nor how I should upload these. The programmer I use there runs on Win98. The programmer I use at home is an ISA card in a 386 PC with a software that looks like it would run just fine on an 8088. The only game that might be worth trying to dump is Dribbling which might be a different version, none of the ROMs match, but we have several boards and the ROMs match each other. And then it's bootlegs bootlegs bootlegs. There's even a Bagman running on a Crazy Kong board. We have what feels like 50 different games on Galaxian hardware (while in fact it's more like 5) I don't know if they're all dumped. We have a Knock Out running on a real genuine NAMCO Galaxians board... most of these look hacked up beyond restoration (but hey, the game runs, so...)
@jeremyc77867 ай бұрын
Cool looking game! Kind of like Zippy Race meets Xevious meets F Zero, as you say. Some of the textures look familiar too
@TheHobbyLodge7 ай бұрын
Great video mate, hopefully the original board can be repaired... I will have to give this game a try it is a new one to me.
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
Thanks Martin Fire it up it’s quite good 👍
@Chriva7 ай бұрын
Couldn't ask for a better Friday evening. :D
@JomasterTheSecond6 ай бұрын
Hearing "Gegitsu" every time you meant to say Gekisou hurts my inner Japanese student. XP
@griffo83X7 ай бұрын
A game ive never heard of nice find , hope you get the pcb running
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
We will mate and hopefully come back to it for another video.
@utubepunk7 ай бұрын
I always feel good after a serious ROM dump. 😏😄 Sorry about the time stamp spam posts. My KZbin app was freaking out on me.
@punchabunchabuttons6 ай бұрын
Feels like the birth of a baby :D first i see a dump of an arcade rom.
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
😂
@fuzzywzhe6 ай бұрын
When your XP computer stops working, you can use a virtual machine to do it. I would recommend you migrate your XP system to a virtual machine before the hard disk fails or the board fails. I would recommend VirtualBox, but VMWare is a bit easier to do the initial dump, but maintaining VMWare is more of a headache. You can image the entire hard disk with linux's dd. It will make a bit by bit copy of the hard disk, and make an *.img file.
@viscountalpha6 ай бұрын
i love arcade stuff and fixing stuff.
@Stainless316L6 ай бұрын
I had a custom jammer back in the 90 with a load of games boards
@BillBailey07 ай бұрын
Theres a Splendor Blast 2 on MAME
@krz88888886 ай бұрын
This is a bit before my time but still very interesting, thank you!
@magicknight84127 ай бұрын
Great stuff , very interesting seeing this
@NEONBattleBitch6 ай бұрын
What a really fantastic video, very cool! One for the History 📚
@netzer4427 ай бұрын
Great stuff!
@sanjyuu22986 ай бұрын
MC68000 is actually a 32-bit processor (build with 16-bit "parts" inside) - while it looks like a 16-bit CPU because of 16-bit bus, it have 32-bit registers and 32-bit instruction set. Most of the times you can run same software on 68000 and 68020+ (Amiga). It's confused as 16-bit CPU bacause of 16-bit bus and was often used in a devices graphically belonged to 16-bit era. The bitness of something though, it is something that often depends of perspective.
@stuartcrossen27237 ай бұрын
Great video
@jasonsteverson46097 ай бұрын
Hey Alex!!
@TheArcadeArchive7 ай бұрын
hi jason 😎👍
@Neodestro7 ай бұрын
very interesting game
@weaselsworld7 ай бұрын
Brave soul, still rocking the Windows XP! I know it's probably necessary to be able to use the old serial programmer equipment, but still, really hope that thing isn't connected to the internet. >_
@nerdygeezer787 ай бұрын
Great video mate..... I'm sure I've played that game at some point
@RetroNaipe6 ай бұрын
I got the winners circle 3 or part 3 undumped (dont know what is, pcb diferent from version 1)! Problem is getting people with eprom readers for mb8516
@AiMR6 ай бұрын
The holy grail arcade machine to dump is Death Race 2000.
@necronix99475 ай бұрын
I normaly get my compuleaner out I hate dust lol, Nice to see the golden oldies getting a new life.
@waynegram89076 ай бұрын
ARCADE ARCHIVE, Ask Richards when you Dump the ROM's into the software Buffer, when looking at the ROM's game code how can you tell if there is any Bad Errors or Corrupted Code by just looking at the ROMs game code in the software buffer program? Any Hints or troubleshooting to see bad code and corrupted code?
@TraitorVek7 ай бұрын
I thought I was already Subbed. But Hey Ho! I Am Now!
@parrottm762627 ай бұрын
I just love PCB archeology, especially if it is arcade-related .
@NivagSwerdna6 ай бұрын
With old ROMs it is possible to get Bit Rot where a few bits have changed state. This in turn will cause the checksums to change and appear to be a different version but in many cases the game will continue to run, at least partially. How many differences did you find?
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
Once I get the Pcb up and running I’ll let you know mate
@jmssun6 ай бұрын
Is there a reason to use a brush instead of using a air blaster? I always assumed that the brush and sand would increase the risk of turning brush motions into abrasions and damage the boards
@johnboydojo5 ай бұрын
Errr They didnt make the Fatal Fury series. SNK did. I think you mean World Heroes. No offence. 🙂 Nice to see you preserving old arcade games!
@TheArcadeArchive5 ай бұрын
Yea got that wrong sorry
@DeanofSmoking6 ай бұрын
I totally saw F-Zer0. Ahead of its time by 5/6 years? trippy save!
@MylstarElectronics6 ай бұрын
Looks like the English title of “GEKISOU” is called “Violent Run”, confirmed perhaps?
@umop3plsdn6 ай бұрын
alpha denshi reminds me of river raid but with cars lol
@meecob6 ай бұрын
I have Gekisou. It's a pretty rough game.
@sebastian197456 ай бұрын
I just got a bargain of ten arcade boards, in "untested" condition. I am pretty sure that they are non functional, as some have stickers with "video" "power" "CPU" notes so I believe those are issues with them. I am not very knowledgeable about the arcade boards, however, I know enough about the 80s 8-bit computers and digital circuits. I would attempt to repair them but I have no idea what they are, what games nor I have the schematics. Is there a way too identify them? Maybe a website with images of the arcade boards or characteristics like CPU, main ICS, or the markings on the boards? Some have missing ROMs, one have a NEC V30 CPU (is the smallest and the newest one) and the others have 68000 or variants CPUs and Z80. Also some have some AY sound chip, while others do not, some have a lot of TTL ICs while others have custom ICs or GAL arrays. Also, few of them are dual board , and they seem to be the oldest ones. All are JAMMA standard (all have the same gold finger connector) I believe.
@geekconnoisseur6 ай бұрын
Please, at 0:14 what is that top-view racing "Bump & Jump"style of gameplay game called?
@rennegaddefoxxe6 ай бұрын
Look at that Windows XP PC! With the yellow screen! If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
@michalgajdos75756 ай бұрын
this game from '85 must have very big future planned yet unfortunate fate. F- zero doesn't look this good, But viewing on phone screen does make games look better...
@striderskorpion6 ай бұрын
I believe you meant the World Heroes series and not Fatal Fury. ADK only worked on the former, while SNK was the only one to create games for the latter series.
@ChicagoRetroGamer7 ай бұрын
Wow wow wow!
@SteveBrandon7 ай бұрын
Is that Phelios on the larger screen in the background?
@TheArcadeArchive6 ай бұрын
Yes it is, fantastic game well spotted 😎👍
@stacyswift1915 ай бұрын
that keyboard needs a cleaning more than that pcb did
@toprem40376 ай бұрын
0:09 - What game is that? I vaguely remember that ninja from back in the arcade days and I've wanted to play it again for ages