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Need some help from the EE types. I think this one comes down to general troubleshooting, but I'm kind of at a loss. The ColecoVision has a Ben Heck composite mod. It was "working" but the colors were smeary and the picture was generally unfocused and a little shaky. While I was playing it, I switched it off and back on and when the image came back it was monochrome, but the picture was super stable and clear. In the process of troubleshooting hand slipped on a probe and accidentally bridged pins 3 and 4 of the J4 (the connector that goes to the RF box), and instead of releasing the magic smoke, it actually brought the color back - and it the picture actually looked fantastic. Pin 3 is the "R-Y" video signal and pin 4 is +12v. If I power off the console, when I turn it back on it's back to monochrome. I was able to duplicate the "accident" using a resistor. A little trial and error showed that if I bridge the connection with a 100 Ohm or smaller resistor for a second or two, the color comes back. If I hit reset the color stays, it's only when the console is powered off and back on that it goes back to monochrome. To troubleshoot: - Replaced all the electrolytic capacitors - Rebuilt the power supply (the 5v rails were both registering 4.85v without a load) Can anyone with a little more knowledge and experience with this sort of thing help point me in the right direction?

Pretty sure I'm 186 (Or maybe 187 - it says "There are 186 in front of you"), but I hope you're right about the rest of it! I assume you're fishing for some confirmation from SainT about the "second batch" for which, IIRC, he said he ordered and possibly received all of the boards. Much as I'd like to know too, can't blame him for keeping silent about it one way or the other. Unless and until he confirms something I'd lay even odds that he's shipped some or all of the boards from that second batch out to prospective outsourcers to get bids and validate the process etc...

I think he named it "Game Drive" because "Cartridge Logic Interface Toolchain Optimized Runtime Integration Service" and "Dynamically Optimized User Channel Hardware Emulation" were already in use by that Ralf guy.

Since I have literally nothing better to do with the next five minutes I want to weigh in on the pointless debate. Let me just acknowledge that the people who want to buy a JagGD and had pre-orders have a right to have feelings about what happened and that those feelings are just as valid as SaiNT's feelings. Where the problem starts is when you take your feelings as validation of entitlement, and yes, despite the attempts of many people on this thread to deflect the notion that they're acting entitled because they judge what they feel they are entitled to to be small, simple, and reasonable, it is entitlement just the same. I would wager that most of the people towing that line here have never actually worked so hard that they literally ran out of bandwidth - this is not the same thing as _feeling_ overworked or overwhelmed - those feelings are quite common, I'm talking about being physically and mentally unable to go on, it's not a feeling at all but a fact. There is no digging deep, there's no dusting yourself off, the tank is empty and you have no more to give - whether you want to or ought to give more is irrelevant. SaiNT has been trying to express that this is what happened but it seems like people are just not getting it. When this happens to you, you shut down. All (not some or most, but ALL) of the little things that so many of you have asked for and suggest he should have done are claims to his time. Those of us who have been in that situation know good and well how harmful that sort of thing is to your health because despite the fact that you can't go on, part of you thinks, feels and believes that you should.

Am I remembering correctly that that the second batch was supposed to be a couple of months after the first?

I’m trying to make a simple repro Obi for my copy of Road Prosecutor (the US version LaserActive game) but I can’t seem to find scans of the Obi anywhere. Does anyone have one that they wouldn’t mind scanning for me?

I think from the standpoint of ambition and complexity, their products are amazing. The implementation has had some hiccoughs - the SSDS3 sound issues (and supposedly video issues which I never experienced, despite using an OSSC with the video LPF turned off). I wish I could say it surprised me that my connector wasn't beveled, but the MegaSD was a pretty ambitious project and I think with that many plates spinning something was bound to be missed. I still love the thing.

Maybe the dolt was talking about the MegaSD? They were released rather close together and my MegaSD shipped without a beveled edge. I don't have calipers to measure it, but now I'm curious.

Apologies if you've answered this specific question before. With the explicit assumption that no answer will be construed as a commitment, is there any chance that CD support will be available by the time batch #2 ships? I know you've got a lot of other irons in the fire such as giving the LynxSD some love and developing the 7800 SD cart, just looking for an idea of where CD support slots in to that timeline.

So it IS just like the US.

If I can be forgiven diverting this thread a little, I'd like to ask SainT a question about Brexit. Being from the other side of the Atlantic, the only info I can get on it comes from the press, and if the British press is anything like the American press you can't really trust half of what they write. I've tried balancing the liberal and conservative articles out to sift the truth, but both are prognosticating doom if they don't get their way. So I wanted to get the perspective of a real person involved in real international commerce what the impact of a no-deal Brexit on 31 October might actually be. Specifically I mean, how does it impact you, your ability to make and sell things etc... It seems like you're pretty sure the PM is not going to get his way and that there will be another delay (which is time for the opposition to work on killing it altogether), and I'm also curious where that confidence comes from. This stuff barely affects me but I can't help but be fascinated by it because my country was once part of England. Oh, and if this is one of those things that's super polarizing and people will hate you for choosing a side or offering an opinion, I won't take it personally if you tell me to piss off.

I don't understand all the updates about queues. As I understand it after that first batch was sent off, nobody's number is going to change for at least a couple of months as that's how long it's going to take for the next batch of 200 boards to be manufactured, assembled and tested. Did I miss something?

A year and a half, maybe two years ago I reached out to RGC and asked about a third run, I was told that nothing was planned but that my email had been put on a list. Is that list still being maintained?

What’s the timeframe on the next batch? Whats the cutoff number? (At what order number does batch 2 become batch 3, etc?)

LOL, you beat me to it!

That’s certainly more than I expected, but not more than I’m willing to pay. You sticking with PayPal for the time being?

Good to know. There was a rumor going around that payment was to be made in Pokémon cards, and I didn’t even know that SainT was into those.

As the release seems imminent, are you sharing the price, or will that just be a surprise?

Oh wow, that's awesome. I've been on the waiting list for like a year and a half but at the time the response I got from RGC felt like they weren't really going to do another run. Thanks for linking that post!

I'm hopeful that "Another World" will make an appearance. Haven't been able to find it and I assume that's out of respect for RGC but it's been several years since they last sold out and they don't seem likely to ever produce more so...

Whaaaaat? I had no idea Star Wars Arcade had been ported to the Jag. As if I wasn't already excited enough for this thing.

Well, I’ll happily help you test that system out

So, I know there's some drama over PayPal not allowing pre-orders that are more that 30 days out - is that basically the only thing holding back pre-orders right now? Is the plan to use pre-orders to fund the actual manufacturing? Just wondering why a 30 day lead time would not be sufficient.

There's a movement in the US to get it reclassified as a protected status. Pretty soon it will no longer be legal to discriminate against Atari Jaguar fans for the purposes of employment, and anyone currently incarcerated on charges of being a Jaguar fan will be released.