Welcome guys - this my first video footage about my work-in-progress Neo Geo Arcade videogame restoration. I recorded this video after cca. 15 months & hundreds of hours of the recovery process, because this was the first real exciting moment when this beauty came back to live - from electric and A/V perspective. History: I started to work on this project in Feb 2014, when I found a more-or-less average looking SNK Neo-Geo video game machine /licensed European version/ in a warehouse. Tears, damages on the woody cab were repairable so decided to recovery this beauty to it's original 'like new' status. The machine has been built in the late of '90s, so... around 25 years so I knew that it will be a challenging task. Because I'm playing video games since my childhood and have a video game collection, I was sure that this authentic machine will be the perfect donor of my 1st arcade video game restoration project. Last year I started to collect the necessary hardware part replacements - I always tried to be authentic-, so items purchased from Japan, Germany or from the U.S. Almost everything is the same, like it was in it's original state. Months later I started to focus the woody work which was the most challenging part. Repair list was totally long: electrics, wiring, power, lighting, audio, painting, etc - I have a lot of items but I dig it myself to tech details to build everything from the scratch. I tried to be so authentic and keep the original image of this machine. I saved, recovered each of the hardware what I was able to and replaced only, what was really necessary. Cableing of course brand new, like the Hitachi 63cm Tube's CRT chassis, T-molding purchased from the U.S. Crown & ILSA buttons from arcadeshop.de, and so on. I totally recovered the original rusty metal control panel, expanded to 6 buttons version with extra laser-cutted holes, and a curved plexiglass because of a shiny, and protective layer. For the Lighting part, I always loved the oldie technique, so I decided to remove the jugglish LED's and replaced with original GE Lighting T5 Neon-fluoresced lamp, with improved 25KHz driver for a cool non-50Hz light. Like lights, wheels also replaced with german-quality Blickle rubber-covered versions, PSU is now a standard arcade HQ Wei-Ya version, with a 220V-110V transformer, dedicated to a CRT chassis. List of the completed tasks is long, I really don't wanna into the details - if you have questions, please let me know. Now, this is just a progress update. Not much left until the completion: currently I'm working on the control panel overlay and the art-graphics now. Art-Graphics are completely rebuilt from the scratch based on the original logo, side-art, bezel art and marquee - so it will follow the authentic, original 80-90's style, but moreover will be a unique, cool art. About the hardware: This machine has been built in the last arcade era of the 90's, based on SNK Japanese licensed 'Gavin' stylish 2-slot Neo-Geo upright cabinet model. Country of origin is Hungary, Europe, manufacturer is the legendary Hungarian Videoton electrics company in Székesfehérvár, near Lake Balaton. These arcade cabs were sold to the Central-European market /Austria, Germany, Italy, Checzh, etc/ but based on my investigation, only a few working machine left. Most of them are lost in the past... So, thanks for looking and - if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Note: I'm talking on my Hungarian mother language during the video, but I'm saying only that: "It's almost cool, but... you're see the picture horizontally reflected, because I welded the line coil wires transposed... but this beauty was able to birth again during my 1st test..." Since then, I fixed the reflection issue, set the screen size, gain, position, contrast/brightness and the electric power-overload of the tube which caused horizontal lines and over-brighted picture. MVS board is: Neo-Geo MV-1F -naturally stereo board Game: Alpha Mission 2 MVS

• published: 10 Sep 2015
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