ShootTheCore’s Video Game Repair Blog
This site is a central repository for repair blogs, written tutorials and videos on the various projects I’ve worked on so that other technicians can hopefully benefit from both my successes and failures.
- Created by Daniel Ladner
- Located in United States
- August 2023
- Free
Recent posts
July 20, 2026
Repair Status: Repair still in progress. Last updated on 7/26/2026. In for repair is a Namco System 2 arcade boardset with the Darksoft Namco System 2 Multi kit installed. Namco System 2 CPU board with Darksoft Multi Kit installed Namco System 2 was a powerful late-80s arcade system that hosted…
June 18, 2026
Status: Successfully repaired on 6/18/2026 In for repair is a Cave CV-1000 PCB where the colors are displaying dim with a yellow tinge. It is common for the three (U14=Red, U15=Green, U16=Blue) color amplifiers to fail on these boards. Testing the amplified output line on the oscilloscope quickly…
February 27, 2026
In for repair is a Sega Golden Axe II Revenge of Death Adder boardset. The board set consists of a large mainboard that handles all the logic processing, a daughterboard with the game data ROMs and another daughterboard that handles inputs for Player 3 and Player 4. Although the boardset is in…
