Dance Dance Revolution Solo Cabinet Upgrades
After purchasing the DDR Solo 2000 cabinet that used to be in PCC Sylvania's student center I began work on repairing and upgrading it.
Completed goals:
- Disassembled and cleaned every element of the dance pad.
- Replaced stripped screws.
- Replaced the dying CD drive with an awesome new DVD drive.
- Bought an official flash card.
- Upgraded the game to 4th Mix Plus.
Remaining goals:
- Replace burnt out lights.
- Replace wire hose.
- Replace marquee back cover.
- Touch up cabinet paint.
- Resolve screen flickering caused by button lights.
- Hook up PS1 memory card slots.
- Add Stepmania functionality
- Add PS2 functionality
Top-Loader NES
The top-loading NES is tough to find and therefore pretty pricey but I got one cheap because it was so beat up. A few months back it quit on me and when I looked inside I found that several disk capacitors were just obliterated. Unfortunately the replacements I purchased were not exactly the correct capacitance and it's still out of order. Once that's taken care of I'll be looking into doing a few mods such as adding a power LED.