So I am pulling my hair out here with my sega versus city cabinet and getting my roundhouse kick button to work on my Pandora's Box V3.

My cabinet came with a neo geo 1 slot and king of fighters 2001 installed and I quickly swapped that out for a Pandora's box v3 as I wanted something more versatile than a single standalone fighter (whose text was all in japanese mind you)

So I ordered more buttons along with the PB V3 (the CP already had holes for all three kick buttons) so I popped everything in and began looking at the wiring. Buttons 4 and 5 were already pre wired! Lucky me, the wire for button 6 took a little bit of digging but after countless hours trying to work this on my own I finally found what I believed to be the correct wire.

Mind you at this point all the buttons and joysticks work on both sides with the exception of the roundhouse kick button (what I refer to as button 6) And this button doesn't work on either side.

So ok, maybe it is the wrong wire right? So let's bypass the entire wire situation entirely and order a paradise arcade shop jamma kick adaptor!

https://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/electrical/30-paradise-blue-elf-adapter.html

I saw some youtube videos of people using these on their PB V2 and V3 and it worked so I gave it a shot.

this adaptor plugs in between the jamma harness and the board and I was all anxious to get this show on the road when my adapter arrived on Tuesday.

I plugged the bastard in and the wires aren't labeled so I plug them in one by one, and I test them in the PB's input test screen. Slowly but surely, one by one,

P1 - button 4 - Check
P1 - button 5 - Check
P2 - button 4 - Check
P2 - button 5 - Check
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.
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P1 - button 6 - Nothing
P2 - button 6 - Nothing......

WTF...!?!??!?!?!?

Now I am plugging all of these wires and testing it on the P1 button 6 so I KNOW the button itself is not the issue, I also know the ground wire can't be the issue because of the previously mentioned test.

How is my PB not recognizing button 6?!?!??!

I know it is a long shot to trouble shoot these Asian hack boards but any input or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Also if anyone locally has a SF 2 board I could borrow just to ensure that my installed kick harness DOES work as well as my Paradise adapter, so I could perhaps at least isolate the issue to the PB would be very much appreciated, whiskey and hugs available as compensation. (I live in London, Ontario Canada... )

Looking for a pair of replacement guns for my point blank machines. The standard guns if possible, the pink and blue ones with recoil. Also found on Time Crisis games as well from my research.

If anyone has a pair from a machine they have harvested let me know!

Oh and I replaced all the optical cables too. But I have tried with the old ones.

The main thing I can see is that NEITHER of the two slaves have the transmit optical port lighting up to send the signal back. Am I missing a connector somewhere?

So I finally have all four of my sega GT machines in the basement. This took me forever to get from the garage to the basement. But I finally am ready to start linking these machines together. Now here is a little background

I bought two different twins. They were never originally all linked together, so this will be the first time.

I have gotten both masters to work if they are set to singles and they drive just fine.

This is where the issues come up.

When I link the second machine up, everything sounds good, but no picture. The machine sounds like its on, and all the appropriate fans and such turn on, but the board doesn't light up, (there are little leds that dont come on, and the transmit and receive optical slots do no light up either.

No biggie, so I swap in the second slave, and the exact same thing happens. The machine gets power, (I know the monitors are working as they both get the neck to glow when i look at it from behind) but how could both slaves now not be working?

I connected all four hook ups in the coin box, and the optical cables are linked properly, but nothing. What could be going on? Any tips or hints at what I should be looking for?

does it get better when played in a dark room. does it get better when you turn up the screen brightness. is there an option to turn up the shot brightness? In the guns themselves how good do the lenses look? are they scratched up?

Well, here is the thing though, played at the same time the pink gun works with like 97% of the screen but the blue gun is working at like 60%. I believe it must have something to do with the guns themselves, specifically the blue one.

thanks! Got it working!

So I have recently picked up a Point Blank shooter, and from what I recall it was a load of fun when I was younger so when the opportunity arose I jumped on it.

Now that it is home this is where the fun begins. Cabinet and cosmetic issues aside, the game isn't working 100%.



The pink/blue areas represent the area that the gun shows targets being hit for player 1 or 2.

Player one works pretty much 100%, there is a SLIGHT strip on the right side of the screen that doesn't seem to accept shots. (like when you point there and shoot, you hear the noise but don't see the pink bullet hole) meaning you can't hit anything there.

Now player 2 is where the issues are at. About half the screen is affected. Now, I know it cannot be the screen because the pink gun works in the areas where the blue gun cannot. This renders player 2 almost useless. When you cannot hit anything on half the screen it makes it unplayable in 2 player mode which is where all the fun is.

OBVIOUSLY I have re-calibrated both guns first before coming on here, but is there any tips or hints that any of you can pass down to me on perhaps rectifying this issue? Buying two brand new guns from namco is insanely expensive, but are there aftermarket guns that perhaps would work easily as replacements? I don't necessarily need to have the huge original namco ones (this cabinet isn't original so to hell with a full resto on this game) I just want it in working condition.

Thanks in advance guys!

So from what I have gathered, my latest cabinet (which is a point blank) doesn't have the test or service buttons wired up.

The molex connector from the board is clearly marked "J19" luckily and the colors 100% correspond with the color schematic as per the pins and respective colors. Here is where my questions come in though.

1. The colors coming out of the connector are not correct. This I chalk up to someone having a spare connector and just reused it. No biggie I guess right?

2. I've never had to wire up a switch from scratch like this before. So since the colors dont match coming out of the connector, i assume i just follow pins 5 and 8 (white and blue) and just run off those?

3. For a test and service button I suppose I could just use any momentary switch right? Now, can I use the ground wire in pin 1? And just daisy chain it to both the switches?

Sorry if this seems basic, but I'm pretty new to fixing or repairing machines. I've replaced parts before to get others running but those were mainly plug and play with the dead parts.

Hi guys!

New to the board here obviously. But I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a long time arcade junkie, but only recently have gotten into buying some machines for my personal use. I've got about 9 machines in various states of repair. I'm pretty impulsive and hence why I have 9 machines with little to no arcade repair knowledge. I built my first machine from the ground up about 2 years ago which was a golden tee fore. I've been hooked ever since. I look forward to chatting and picking your brains over arcade machines.