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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: October 2014
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Friday, 31 October 2014. R-TYPE 1CC FIRST LOOP - PC ENGINE. This has been something that I've been wanting to attempt since I watched Ex Mosquito's. Awesome R-Type arcade 1cc first loop on youtube and when he released the video with commentary I really started trying to get somewhere on my PC Engine version. With the R-Type version on the PC Engine you get to have a little halftime break so I've been practicing and practicing and I've finally managed to crack the first half of the game. Which is tech...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: SEGA NEPTUNE
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SEGA NEPTUNE REPLICA FINISHED. Thanks for coming back and checking on my blog. Some of you guys might have been following / found my blog because of my EPIC Neptune project I set myself a few years ago after seeing the awesome Longhorn Engineer's tutorial on creating a Neptune using a 32x and a Genesis / MD2. To finish it off I back painted the perspex LED 'window', glossed the buttons and applied the waterslip decals for the logos so that it looks like the prototype photo's I've seen on the web. Again I...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: May 2014
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Monday, 19 May 2014. ARCADE MACHINE REFURBISHMENT - RESURRECTION PART 6. FINISHED! It's been a couple of weeks since my last update so I thought I would post up a quick update on the Jamma arcade machine resurrection. On the left you can now only see me and the wall behind me reflecting in the glass rather than seeing straight into the cabinet. Below you can see a kind of POV of how it looks when your playing. You really just see the game now. D I wanted to make a new marquess sign for the machine which ...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: SLOWLY GETTING BACK INTO PROJECT STUFF
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Thursday, 23 October 2014. SLOWLY GETTING BACK INTO PROJECT STUFF. D Well, I'm not in full on geek project mode again but it's getting there. Our wedding and Honeymoon have now passed which has gone far too quickly! But the day was amazing and went exactly how we wanted which is all you can ask for. Perfect! So I've been doodling what I need to do. As you can see from the picture on the right I'm going to do the Fold Under way of mounting the 32x because of the new placement of the power and reset button...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: SEGA MEGADRIVE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG USB DRIVE
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Monday, 10 November 2014. SEGA MEGADRIVE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG USB DRIVE. Howdy Y’all,. Anyway, that’s not what this post is about. Its about a little mid-week recycling project that I’ve been thinking about. I like most megadrive owners / collectors have a couple of spare Sonic the Hedgehog 1’s knocking about that no-one wants and I’ve been feeling that its such a shame that such a great game is just gathering dust getting absolutely no love as there are so many of them about. I'm a geek from the UK who's ...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: March 2014
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Monday, 31 March 2014. ARCADE MACHINE REFURBISHMENT - RESURRECTION PART 3. HARNESS, CONTROLS AND SOUND. I've continued working away on my Arcade machine project and have made significant progress. :-D. Where I left it last time I'd gotten the TV in place inside the cabinet and roughly mounted the chassis in to place so that the cabling would reach where it needed to reach. While I was at it I made a perspex holder for my Jamma Test switch as well. This will live behind the coin mech door. So I headed bac...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: July 2013
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Monday, 1 July 2013. STREET FIGHTER 2 CHAMPION EDITION BOOTLEG *FIXED*. In my last post I was starting work on my Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition bootleg repair. I was tentatively dipping my toe into the world of arcade game repair. Well I started doing a lot of tracing tracks from the suspiciously warm chips in the middle of the board and reading up on the internet what the chips actually are. I ordered some socket strips from ebay which were really cool! Well I traced across from one of the LS245's t...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: April 2014
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Monday, 28 April 2014. HOMEMADE SCAN LINE GENERATOR - MID-WEEK PROJECT. Last week inbetween working on things for my arcade machine (fixing the blackout paper and making extension wires etc) I started work on something I've been wanting to make for ages! A Scan Line Generator for my dreamcast! As always I headed over to mmmonkey's awesome modding website www.mmmonkey.co.uk. I couldn't try it out though because the next step was to make a VGA extension cable (female - male) so that I could hook the R,G,B,...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: November 2013
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Tuesday, 26 November 2013. WOW IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I POSTED LAST. I've just realised its been an absolute age since I posted up any project work! Man the months have flown by so fast! Me and my girlfriend (now fiancee) have also been away on holiday to New Orleans for just over a week last month which was amazing! So basically, that's whats been happening. Game playing, holidaying, planning, designing, drawing and exciting developments. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. STUFF ON A...
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PORLZILLA.COM | Designer Toys, Paintings, Retro Consoles, Illustrations and Design by Paul Burke: NEW YEAR AND SOME NEW PROJECTS
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Tuesday, 27 January 2015. NEW YEAR AND SOME NEW PROJECTS. A bit of a late Happy New Year! But there you go. :-). I've been quiet again on the old blog front, the time keeps flying by which is a little worrying when you think about it. Over christmas I don't get much time to do many geeky projects as we're out busking with the kids Brass band that me and my wife volunteer for. Always good fun getting out there and playing the classic christmas tunes! So off I trotted to one of the arcade forums I go on an...
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