I recently snagged my first CPS1 game. 1941: Counter Attack!
I was disappointed when I first fired it up and was met with this result.
So I pulled all the boards apart, reseated a chip on the C board, and then cleaned and reseated roms 22 and 23 and it worked perfectly!
Sorry for the bad pic that caught the crt scan.
Having a lot of fun with this one so far!
Nice! I have a Mercs board that does the same, but really haven’t looked into getting it fixed. Maybe I should start with the basics lol.
Couldn’t hurt to poke at it. I always do the “press” test while it is running. I could see that pressing on 22/23 while the screen scrolled in demo mode changed what was displayed. So I pulled them and saw they were corroded really bad. Scraped all the legs with an exacto and then sprayed them and the sockets with cleaner. Reseated and presto.
Love this pic, the Samus status screen just makes it perfect.
New PCB day is best day.
And Cave PCB day is better than most other PCB days. I finally got my hands in Espgaluda II, my favorite shooting game ever. May it last me a lifetime.
New tag is perfect lol
Such a small board! I’ve yet to really play any Cave shooters. I hear they are a genre unto themselves.
Very nice, congrats!
Finally got around to cleaning up the two 1050 drives that came with this package. On the 1st drive, the metal label was lifting off, so I had to gingerly remove that, clean it all up and glue it back on.
The 2nd drive was in immaculate shape. Absolutely mint.
Surprisingly, both drives still had the little plastic sheet protecting the metal bits, so I had a little fun peeling those off. 
I’ve not posted in here for a long time and I just received a parcel from Japan:
10 pieces of NEW STOCK Metroid Series amiibo!
Actually wait no… this is what I got:
Feel like I should save the amiibo shipper box and re-purpose it for another use though.
Not really picked up much lately due to the rising costs of retro games but I did pick up a few cheap titles for a few pounds each:
But more importantly:
Managed to source some of the keys I required for my SEGA NAOMI Universal Cabinet!
What’s the box at the top?
Also, can you do me a huge favour and see if there is a game in that Sega book?
The other day I was trying to figure out what the first ever scrolling video game was, not electro-mechanical, but actually scrolling in a video game.
Some sources day it’s defender in 1980, and others say it’s Sega’s Bomber from 1977. The trouble is, I can’t find any photos or videos of the Bomber game anywhere.
I’ll check for you later as been called into work early.
The box at the top is a SEGA NAOMI NetDimm that is required for that “preserve” booting ROMS from your PC over a network and also required for GDROM use.
I previously just had the normal Dimm board that can only be used to hook up the GDROM unit.
Tested all working now:
Is that keychain easy to find?
Here you go. Sorry for the bad image quality my regular camera batteries need charging:
Bomber April 1977 release Scrolling Shooter
Some quick online googling in Japanese gave me this:
Side-scrolling shooter! A side-view shooter where you control a bomber and bomb a fortified city.
Enemy planes that appear are shot down with the bombardment button, and targets and anti-aircraft guns on the ground respond by dropping bombs. The screen flows from left to right, the higher the altitude, the slower the progress, and the lower the altitude, the faster. The screen is divided into three colors, blue, green, and red from the right, and the higher the score, the more you defeat it on the left side of the screen. The game ends in 60 to 150 seconds.
and
Looks like defender was not first then.
That keychain is not an original SEGA product but is given away with orders from smallcabs (based in France) whose branding is on the reverse.
Not sure how long for or if there is an order size limit to get one but it is a freebie and not on sale product.
They don’t even mention about it when you make an order.
Does look lovely doesn’t it.
Awesome thank you! I really wish I could find footage of the game, but it seems like it’s lost to history.
Got a new toy in the mail today!
I’d like to find a second controller, but they’re very expensive. I might just pick up an 8bitDo one instead.
Congrats. What do you plan to play on it? It’s still a huge missing piece from my setup I still plan to own someday.
Nice!
I dunno, I’ve not given it much thought to be honest. I’m thinking it will get used mostly as a travel companion when I’m stuck on hotels for work. 
I’ve generally brought along a NES, SNES, or Genesis mini and always enjoy them, so this will be another great option.
I always have my other mini systems hooked to the TV upstairs, so my 6 year old gets quite a bit of use out of them, but I’m not going to bother giving this one a permanent home there because my son hates shooters. (I know, disown him).
Nice one. I bought two similar looking wireless 8BitDo controllers and never even used the default wired one. 
