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OzStick

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OzStick last won the day on March 23 2023

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  1. Hey Russ, loving your project as I always like to see how resourceful people can be when money IS an issue! Do yourself a BIG favour though - close up the PC case until your cab is complete, as you never know what you may accidentally drop into it in the meantime!!!
  2. +1 for the above idea suggested by Dave. I'd also suggest it's a perfect opportunity to redo ALL that wiring to get rid of the technicolour spaghetti. Create a loom of wires for P1 and another for P2 by using a few cable ties and it will make it look way nicer, but more importantly it will be much easier to see where each wire goes. Also try to neaten up that junction of grounds involving the bare terminal connector as that's just asking for trouble.
  3. It's a pity i didn't see this earlier, as I could probably have done something for you...........
  4. What sort of issues are you having with it? This may be something I could help you with - drop me a line if you like and we may be able to sort something out.
  5. I'm happy to remote log in and take a bit of a "look around" for you. Typically you'd be on the phone to me at the same time so I can explain what's going on and hopefully have you pick up some pointers along the way whilst we sort out a way to unravel your issues. If this is appealing to you then visit my website where you will find my phone number, then give me a call so we can arrange something. Cheers, Chris
  6. I tend to take that exception slightly further, in that much of the time it's not their IP either.......
  7. Confusing rant is right! He comes off as completely unprofessional and I'm still trying to work out what "personal non factual lies" might mean....
  8. You have come in at the right end of this - Freezy and Lucky1 WERE at loggerheads for a while there, however for the sake of sanity and the VPin community they have now patched things up. As a result we are beginning to benefit from their combined skill and colourised DMD output is now going forward in leaps and bounds. Make sure you grab the latest version of the PIN2DMD app as well as DMDExt *AS RECOMMENDED BY LUCKY1*, install as instructed and you should find that PAC, VNI/PAL and Serum files all work through the same process. Be sure to also update to the recommended install of VPinMAME and then you should be sitting pretty.
  9. I make the odd VPin cab here and there and I do much more than "encourage" customers to learn about the file structure so they are able to replace/remove/update tables etc. It's not a straight forward process but once you get the hang of it then it becomes easier.
  10. He has YouTube vids going back 6 years but has been in operation longer than that.
  11. Easy to sit in judgement without knowing the full details. Whilst I'm in no way an apologist for Dave (nor any others catering to the same niche market), as a small business owner I can empathise with his situation. The last 3-4 years have been weird to put it mildly. When Covid first hit, there was much concern that sales would dry up as punters would need to tighten their spending, however with lockdowns many hobbies boomed, including ours and the VPin guys were utterly inundated with orders. They expanded accordingly and started increasing their stock on hand at which point we started seeing shortages which we now ALL know about an despise. So on the back of being swamped with orders, none of which they would've wanted to say no to, they were finding stock difficult to secure so that's when order ETAs would have started to blow out. I can personally attest to how difficult that situation is - trying to appease customers whose orders you can't fill right now as you are "waiting for new stock to arrive". It's still happening now and is just as difficult. What's happened more lately I have no idea about as far as Retroplay in particular is concerned, however it's upsetting to read a lot of comments more or less labelling these guys as criminals or, as directly quoted from the Facebook group @Davefjedi referenced above, scammers. NOBODY builds up a business over the course of 8-odd years with the intention of scamming anyone and whoever the mod of that group is should be advised that such a claim is slanderous and that the message should be removed or altered! I understand that quite a few people have been left out in the cold and out of pocket, but it doesn't excuse them from making defamatory comments. I've probably said enough for now, so I'll just add that I personally hope that the RetroPlay Administrators will allow Dave to continue trading for a while, so he can fill as many VPin backorders as possible.
  12. G'Day Ross - drop me a line as I'd love to help you out if i can. Details on my website..... Cheers, Chris
  13. I'm looking for a B2S for TNA - I was sure I had it but now can't find it on my backup drive. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Chris.
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