Twenty years! Where has the time gone?

[channelmaniac]

Twenty years ago, August 2005, I started Arcadecomponents as a business after having a hard time finding 2x 2149 RAM chips to fix a Pole Position PCB.

Thank you to everyone who has entrusted me to supply parts and repairs. I'm slow at times, but get the job done and way cheaper then my wife wants.

My repair logs shared publicly and are >2000 entries deep. They can be found on the NLG forums at: https://newlifegames.com/nlg/index.php?board=25.0

You can find some of the reverse engineeered pinouts of custom chips out on the Neo Geo Dev Wiki and the PLD Archive.

I wanted to stop here and give many thanks to the Neo Geo community who skeptically trusted me to share info I found when I told y'all I was starting to repair them and asked about common failures and error messages way back then. Skeptically is maybe too kind...hahaha... but I kept to my word and shared what I found!

Thanks everyone!

Raymond

 

[daskrabs]

Congrats, boss. Thanks for helping me out many times over the years with parts and service logs. You're a legend.

 

[theMot]

but get the job done and way cheaper then my wife wants.

Any pics of this wife?

 

[channelmaniac]

Any pics of this wife?

On FB where friends can see... She has a gnarly scar behind her ear where they went in about a year and a half ago and removed a 35mm acoustic neuroma. I seriously was wondering if I was still going to have a wife before she finally got a decent diagnosis. Her PCP said she was "spastic" and it took RapidMed, a doc-in-the-box , to actually give her a real result.

 

[Dr. Jigglin]

theMot right about now

 

[mjmjr25]

You still don't know theMot

(also, thanks CM for the all the info over the years)

 

[theMot]

On FB where friends can see... She has a gnarly scar behind her ear where they went in about a year and a half ago and removed a 35mm acoustic neuroma. I seriously was wondering if I was still going to have a wife before she finally got a decent diagnosis. Her PCP said she was "spastic" and it took RapidMed, a doc-in-the-box , to actually give her a real result.

I’m glad she is ok mate.

 

[channelmaniac]

I’m glad she is ok mate.

Thanks man. We've been married over 34 years now. Couldn't imagine life without her at this point.

 

[Fygee]

You're an absolute treasure to the community and the work you've done is legendary. You're also just one hell of a good dude.

Hoping for another 20 years!

 

[NeoCverA]

Awesome dude! Welcome to the club! Today is actually my 23rd anniversary here.