You don’t think about playing games very much do you? HuCARDs are indeed cool but you’re not going to play Gate of Thunder or Ys?

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Posted by SignOfZeta on November 12, 2018 at 10:58:38 EST in reply to Man, I'd forgotten how cool HuCards are--such elegantly solid hunks of plastic. Now I kind of want just a PCE rather than my big clunkier Duo. Plus, the PCE would actually fit on my desk. Hm. (n/t) from Paleface.

You don’t think about playing games very much do you? HuCARDs are indeed cool but you’re not going to play Gate of Thunder or Ys?

n/t

Well that's the pickle. Currently I'm leaning toward getting an RGB-modded PCE, to keep on my desk, and *also* getting my Duo R modded; I would keep the Duo stored in my electronics cupboard of shame and bring it out to hook up when I feel like committing to clearing space out for a bit for a Super CD session. // My Duo has a controller port problem where it acts like all buttons are being pressed at once unless downward pressure is being applied to the controller plug--this steadily got worse as I owned it; don't remember now if it was there when I first got it, but it definitely developed into a problem even worse than the video out getting flaky (picture cuts out momentarily if that's jostled)--so I'll have to get that taken care of, too--or else get a new used Duo, I guess.

(Paleface)

(16:18:02 11/12/18 EST)

Eh but there still aren't that many of the games that I'm dying to play just now and I definitely don't need to spend the money so I should probably just keep holding off.

(Paleface)

(19:59:31 11/12/18 EST)

Have compromised on just getting the Duo repaired and modded, which isn't all that pricey. If I find some HuCard games I just need to have out all the time, I guess I can always get the modded Core Grafx II or whatever later. : P

(Paleface)

(21:30:16 11/12/18 EST)

Also getting the Duo-R's capacitor's replaced, 'cause apparently that is or becomes a problem, causing "jail bar" dim horizontal lines across the picture. Can't say I ever noticed it, eh, might have gotten taken on that one. : P

(Paleface)

(23:44:37 11/13/18 EST)

Jailbars on RGB modded PCE are very common, I’m pretty sure across all models. People can fix it although I confess I don’t know much about it. Bad caps on Duo R are almost unheard of but are virtually guaranteed on the black systems. Perhaps there is *a* capacitor value that can be changed in order to fix the video but a total capacitor replacement is, I’m %99 sure, unrelated to the jailbar thing (which again, I’m pretty sure only happens with RGB modded systems) and unnecessary work which I personally don’t recommend anyone do because all it can do it break something if it already works perfectly. That goes for all sorts of things, not just game machines.

(SignOfZeta)

(16:56:39 11/14/18 EST)

Google told me: it isn't related to RGB modding, it's just the clearer picture makes them more apparent; and it is 100% due to capacitors. And yeah it didn't seem to be a problem on my system--there's maybe(?) the faintest possible hint of it in this old screen photo I took (inside), so it wasn't a problem yet...but I didn't want to get the system back and then find it was a problem, or something (I'd also read something that seemed to say it gets worse over time?). So eh oh well I just hope I get the darn thing back and it works and the picture looks a little sharper than it did over composite.

(Paleface)

(17:38:10 11/14/18 EST)

This is news to me but then I've been banned from PCEFX so I can't look it up. I have literally (correct use, take note) never heard of a single person mentioning jail bars on an unmodified Duo. If you can't see them without it modded then it is most definite the mod that's doing it. If its invisible in composite on a system that only has composite then its not there. I can see adjusting capacitor type and value fixing the "issue" but again the "issue" is self inflicted.

(SignOfZeta)

(13:06:07 12/05/18 EST)

The PCEFX forum is changing my mouse pointer to silly sprite characters, I don't like that. : P

(Paleface)

(01:26:38 12/08/18 EST)

yeah, they did it right after the forum basically totally died so I don't know who to even complain to. it's weird, it was going fine until suddenly just nothing.

(exodus)

(18:44:00 12/20/18 EST)

I haven't been there in a while but basically Nanto put that Nightwolf guy in charge and he eventually banned anyone who rubbed him the wrong way even a little, installed a swear filter, all sorts of weird shit. While his past forum behavior was borderline psychotic he started behaving like a model of civility publicly while flaming and banning anyone on his enemies list, which was pretty much everyone. Facebook is presumably where everyone went since they had already leached a lot of the forum's traffic before this shit even went down. I don't know what's going on now. Presumably Nightwolf is answering his own questions all day.

(SignOfZeta)

(00:48:51 12/25/18 EST)

almost nothing is going on. Maybe that's why the forum is so quiet, because he banned everyone!? man... people should learn from my mistakes with the ic forums

(exodus)

(15:36:25 12/27/18 EST)

To me I guess jailbars being an RGB thing or not doesn't matter, since I need something other than composite anyway to be able to run it through my OSSCs.

(Paleface)

(01:47:48 12/08/18 EST)

Finally got it back a couple weeks ago, seems like they did a pretty good job with it. Here's how the RGB output looks.

(Paleface)

(22:49:53 01/21/19 EST)

I think the other capacitor problem is chemicals leaking out onto the mainboard, or something?

(Paleface)

(14:03:02 11/16/18 EST)

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