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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Duo-R cd audio problem.]

After a bit raking I've found the info buried in the repair threads. Lots of good stuff in there.
I think I will have a play around with the pots tonight. And while I'm there have a good look around the board for signs of leaking capacitors.
I should never have sold my old Duo-R as it worked perfectly.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Duo-R cd audio problem.]

Thanks for all the advice guys. Anyone know where I can get a guide to what each potentiometer is for?

[General Gaming / Re: Konix Multisystem]

I remember the hype for that system here in the UK. IIRC it was to be manufactured in Wales and most of the top UK software houses at the time were developing software for it.

It used old style 880kb floppies so it would have needed to load everything into the internal RAM to negate the slow access times of the disk drive. Not ideal versus the cart based systems of the day. It would probably have been better suited to old school polygon style games like Driller and Carrier Command.

For some reason I seem to recall the infamous Mega-CD game Night Trap and it's FMV siblings like Sewer Shark were originally produced for the Konix system but how that would have worked without loads of disk swapping is beyond me.

Konix made good joysticks for the Speccy, I always favoured the Speedking over the Quickshot 2.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Duo-R cd audio problem.]

I can't say I have noticed any unusual tracking sounds as you describe. I'll need to have a good look and listen at the weekend.
I did compare the position of the small white screw on the side of the laser to the old one when I installed it. They both looked to be in the same position.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Duo-R cd audio problem.]

This is driving me nuts. I played an audio disc for about an hour to let the system warm up. But there was distortion all the way through. After that I tried Rayxanber III which was struggling to load sometime and dropping the cd audio very quickly.
Then I went back to Rayxanber II which was also dropping the cd audio yesterday. And yet today it's running perfectly. It loaded quickly and the audio was fine.
I put Rayxanber III back in and it loaded ok then displayed the loss of audio as before.

I really hope it isn't the laser as it's brand new with only a couple of hours of use since it was installed.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Duo-R cd audio problem.]

The music cuts out instantly. So it's likely to be the potentiometer needing adjusted then?

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Duo-R cd audio problem.]

Hello guys, I've just bought Rayxanber II and III. I tried them yesterday in my recently repaired Duo-R and there is a problem with CD audio cutting out. I bought the Duo-R a few months ago but the laser was faulty on arrival. I ordered a laser from the US and installed it a few weeks ago. I THOUGHT everything was OK. I only had a couple of CD games to test it with but it appeared to be ok.

What I am finding with the Rayxanber discs is the game loads OK and the audio starts to play at the beginning of each level or boos encounter. But it normally stops playing after a random number of seconds. The discs are in excellent condition so I don't think they are the problem.

From looking around the forum I'm guessing replacing capacitors may be the solution but I would like to know if there is a guide available showing which capacitors are relevant to my problem.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC-Engine via VGA Monitor?]

I'm guessing that mod is composite with left and right audio out. The PC Engine only had RF out so as poor as it sounds that mod would be an improvement. An RGB mod could yield component output but at roughly 240i I don't know if your monitor would accept that.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC-Engine via VGA Monitor?]

I cannot see that picture of the mod unfortunately.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Did the PC Engine die at the right time?]

I don't think it was just the PC Engine that died off too early but 2d gaming as a whole. Poor quality 3d was thrust onto the world with the 3DO, Saturn and PlayStation arguably before developers were ready for it.
We should have really had a generation of slick, well animated, high resolution and high colour 2d / 2.5d games before the Dreamcast appeared.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC-Engine via VGA Monitor?]

If you get the console modded for RGB out it will likely be with a scart connection. You would then need a suitable upscaler such as the XRGB2 plus. That will give you a VGA output which your monitor will accept. If your monitor is LCD based it will likely have a native resolution higher than 640x480 so the image will have to be scaled again. And that will degrade the image quality further.
You would be far better off picking up a good second hand CRT TV (Loewe, Philips, Toshiba etc) for use with retro systems.