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
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…
January 15, 2026
In for repair is a Seibu Kaihatsu SPI mainboard (V2.0 Revision) and a Raiden Fighters 2 game cartridge. The SPI mainboard wouldn’t boot – on powerup, it would display a generic “Checksum Error” message. This is a common problem with the SPI platform. The SPI mainboard and game carts are region…
