I Broke My Sega Rally Arcade Machine

James is like the calmer friendlier version of dankpods

james has the technical aptitude of a professional but the disposition of an ol mate and that makes the technical aspects of these videos easier to follow and appreciate

7:47 How to film a CRT properly Step 1 - figure out if you have 50fps refresh or 60 (japanese arcade maxhine, so 60) Step 2 - Adjust your camera's shutter speed to 1/60 (not framerate) (you can do this on phone cameras under "pro video") Step 3 - Tweak the ISO and Aperture until the lighting looks good Step 4 - make sure the camera is not focused directly on the phosphores. (Gives weird texture, defocusing it in either direction works) Step 5 - look for a peak around 15khz in the recording and please bring it way down or mute it. Not a must, but a slight quality of life for folks in their teens, 20s, and pets

Your snake is weird, they're not supposed to be hairy

That garage looks like so much fun to hang around in. It’s like going to the house of one of your older brothers nice friends who has a bunch of cool shit.

Arcade machines live their lives in some very tough conditions. It really does take dedication to extend them long past their original life span.

This man literally has everything 😂

I love watching James work on things like this, even with my limited knowledge and no plans of my own doing something like this, it's easy to follow along and I am actually learning along the way! thank you, ya legend.

Ours and the ones I recall playing were never that loud when applying steering feedback. It could just be the audio, but it sounds to me like a bearing noise from that motor, and/or a dry and/or ovaled-out bushing. I've also seen the idler bushes wear out, too. IIRC they use standard size sealed bearings and brass bushings to support the rotor shaft. Good luck finding the noise! Great video, too btw. Well made and great content. Cheers.

As someone who (barely) repaired an SNES with an X-Acto, a conductive ink pen, and some hot glue, I feel your pain about trace rot Hopefully we can preserve these boards rather than let then waste away

God I can just imagine being a kid in the early 90’s and seeing a dude like James popping open one of these cabinets at my local arcade to try and fix it and just being in awe.

You have such a wonderful aptitude for these things! It's amazing watching your troubleshooting process, I would have never been able to work this out.

James has the personality to tell you about something you’ve never heard about and leave the video feeling like an expert.

James has kids!? Whoa! That's awesome!! We had no idea!!!

Can you tell James is a mechanic/car restorer for a living? 😅

i remember old arcades in egypt used to have sega rally machines and its one of the main reasons i love working on and driving cars nowadays. Sparked my love for the eternally flawed lancia

Finally some good freaking arcade content. LOVE Sega Rally, even wrote a docco about it recently! The Guitar Freaks and Pop'n cabs look mint, I'd love to try em. I don't remember the recent SR cabs I played on having that loud a motor but I have heard Daytona ones this loud, so info inconclusive. Keep up the great work with these cabs and your videos ✌

There's actually some old initial D twin cabinets at a local arcade to me in NSW and I've been tempted to ask if they'd sell them because they started having issues and now just sit in the employee only section of the arcade and you can just see them there collecting dust, your honestly got me thinking about going in next week to try buy them to fix up

Genuinely great video, I've been wanting to learn more circuitry stuff and your the only guy that can make it entertaining

Conformal coating all the boards might help prevent further corrosion but would make repairs 10x as hard. Really cool that you were able to figure out the problem.