Just wanted to post a quick heads-up – I’m currently working on a new site template for here and my other blog, so once they’re both finished up, it’ll be back to business as usual 😀
Thanks in advance for being patient!
Just another quick update – as hinted at previously, I’ve gone and moved the blog to its own domain, so you can update your links with the new address – www.retro-otaku.com. I’ve setup redirects so that any requests to the previous URL should migrate across relatively cleanly and all the internal links should work fine since I’ve generally coded everything to use relative links instead of absolute ones; by all means though, if you come across anything out of place, let me know.
Finally have an update on the power supply problems I’ve been having with my Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Fighter 3 respective Model 2A and Model 3 boards.
After tracking down an eBay sale of a Model 3-fitted and ready PSU, I buckled, bought it, and it finally arrived yesterday. I gave it a preliminary run to see if I could get the thing to power up, and it looks like we may just be in business 🙂
The setup’s nothing too refined, but is startlingly effective – it’s basically a standard ATX power supply running on 240v with the 12v, +5v, +3.3v and GND going to a couple of distributors on a block of wood, and the distributors rope around to the various connectors on the board. The input and video run back to a JAMMA biscuit, and the sound (not connected) has been wired to a 4-pin molex connector, but currently doesn’t have an amp fitted.
Moving forward, from here I’ll need to take the Wei Ya audio amp off the existing Model 3 >> JAMMA adapter I have and fit that into the loop and connect it up to the JAMMA biscuit to get sound going through. Will have to look at doing something similar for my Model 2 board as well, might see if there’s a way I can quickly hook up the PSU to my Model 2A filterboard to at least test the thing and see if I can get the sucker powering up.
The funny thing with all this is that Wifey said ages ago that I should have gone out and grabbed a big beefy power supply for the system before messing around with everything else I’ve done. Looks like she was right all along 🙂
Once I’ve had a chance to properly connect the whole shebang together and get it up and running, I’ll post up some pics to share. Might also prove useful to other people interested in doing similar mods on their systems.
Was reading this up via Kotaku – the community over at the Something Awful forums have been putting together movie posters, but changing the titles to those of video games. Makes for some amusing cross-overs (click for larger versions):
This isn’t the first time they’ve come up with some classy takes on video games – inspired by Olly Moss’ Video Game Classics project (which were featured in Edge and Kotaku amongst other sites/magazines), the folks over at Something Awful took a spin at creating video game covers in the stylistic vein of the old book covers Penguin and co. produced yesteryear:
Those are just a small collection of what’s out there, so I’d recommend you check out the links above for more goodies 🙂 If any of the authors of the above want additional credit/links added, I’m more than happy to do so – either leave a comment or send me an e-mail and I’ll make the changes to the metadata and update this post!
Just a quick update since it’s been a while – apologies for the lack of updates of late, been enjoying a bit of time off and all the good stuff that entails 🙂
Thanks for everyone dropping by the site for a read, especially to those who have e-mailed me or left comments, I appreciate all of them!
2010 should make for an interesting year for the blog – there will be more content, more image galleries, more tutes, more guides, possibly some videos and a new visual overhaul as well to make things look awesomer. Oh, and I also have plans to migrate the blog to its own dedicated domain some time in the next couple of months, so stay tuned! Note that all your old bookmarks will redirect automatically when we switch domains, so don’t worry about dead links 🙂
Thanks for supporting the site, looking forward to more nerdisms in the year to come 🙂
