Posted by Sir Pimp on 19, 2000 at 10:39 AM:
In Reply to: He needs a kick harness! posted by Agent Davis on 19, 2000 at 4:34 AM:
Based on the questions he asked, he presented himself in a way that he was too timid to open the thing up and look at it. BTW, I did suggest that he look at continuity from the buttons to the PCB. Your accusation is unfair.
I agree, "knowledge is powerful." If you read his original statement, he claims he has no knowledge of this skill-set. Given that statement, I only intended to reset his expectations. And did you notice that I practice what I preach? The BattleZone game I'm buying is STILL broken despite the best efforts of the arcade reseller I'm purchasing it from. It's been two months I've waited so far, and the tech says it may be quite a while longer until he can identify the problem to a specific component.
So please, come down from your ivory tower and give advice the rest of us can actually use.
Sir Pimp
: Like Tom said before, it probably has nothing to do with the buttons. I'm sure its not a coincidence that the last three buttons on each side just happen to not work and those are the extra buttons that jamma doesn't use. Normal jamma is only 3 buttons per player so the sf2 games and other capcom games come with a special kick harness that hooks into the pcb for the extra 3 buttons on each player. These are really cheap, as all they are are wires with connectors on one end and on the other end is what you hook the buttons to. $20 or less, I'm sure. Same goes for Mortal Kombat which has 2 extra buttons per player. The statement of Pimp Daddy that (paraphrasing) "people shouldn't buy things they can't fix theirselves or won't hire an expert to fix" is garbage. There is nothing wrong with buying something you don't know how to fix and then learning how to fix it. His statement is ridiculous. Trust me, if I see an original Ms. Pacman cheap that isn't totally working I'll buy it and figure out how to fix it. What do I do, spend a month figuring out how to fix it and then go back and try to buy it only to find it is gone? Knowledge is powerful, and with it, one can accomplish anything.