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log 008: The red tint
This is an issue I’ve seen only twice so far. The first time I encountered it, I was stumped. I worked on the board a…
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log 007: DMA Fail – bad CPU.
This particular unit would boot the test cart and fail only the DMA test. The capacitors were also bad, so the output was distorted too.…
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log 006: Vertical lines PPU2
This was an SHVC board with vertical lines. Originally I suspected PPU1, and the CPU was my second guess. Neither were correct. Turned out to…
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log 005: The fuzzies: video encoding and decoding issue
On this particular repair, I had an issue where certain parts of the screen would show diagonal bars, but of two interlaced colors from nearby…
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log 004: Mario is missing! No sprites = bad ppu1
This was a funny one- the games boot and play, but there’s no characters! You CAN still die though 😉 Swapping PPU1 was the fix…
