Server Migration

Starting November 25th until the end of the week, the server hosting this website will be migrated to a new network. There may be outages, and large files that may not be available during this period. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Many updates!

I made a couple of videos recently. One video is a demo of the PJ adapter:

I also added and fixed some of the missing or incomplete pages from the old site before the VM crash. Probably 90% of the broken links should now have been dealt with.

Monitor Testers / Video Signal Generators

Now that the beta test is finished, I’ve added a bunch of information on the video testers. These will be available for sale very, very soon. I want to have all the documentation in place before these go out.

I spent the last couple of days adding to the site in preparation for this. Please check out this page for more information on this project.

I also put together a guide on how to do basic testing and adjustment procedure using these testers and created a video on the project:

Thank you to those that have expressed interest in this project and those who helped beta test these over the last few months!

New JAMMA Adapters added

Some information added on new JAMMA Adapters that have been in development over the last few months. This info is long overdue. The new adapters include:

  • Bagman
  • Taito Space Invaders
  • Playchoice 10 Single (updates)

I also made some changes to the existing DIY adapters and JAMMA fingerboards. You can find all of these, along with my other JAMMA adapters on this page.

At this point I’m starting to run of JAMMA adapters to make. At this point I’m open to suggestions on what to make next. Feel free to send me a request.

Cabinet Adapters

I added a new section to the site to list the new cabinet adapters. This includes the following dedicated adapters, as well as the three DIY cabinet adapter kits.

  • Capcom
  • Sega System 8
  • Sega System 16
  • Konami
  • Data East
  • Tehkan
  • Taito
  • Irem
  • Universal Mr. Do
  • Namco Galaga / Digdug
  • Nintendo

The information on these is right here. I’ll be adding these to my ebay items very soon, but at this point I’m afraid I will not have the cycles to take any more additional orders with so many projects about to wrap up.

For now, the plan is to create all the documentation first and then to get these items listed for sale right after that.

Lots of updates coming soon!

I started updating the site again. First I’m going through some of the older pages and doing updated to complete some of the stuff that was left unfinished.

Next, I’m going to add a number of sections for stuff that is going to be released to the public. This includes the new cabinet adapters, video testers, the Rapberry Pi to JAMMA adapter, JAMMA Mate and JAMMA Test Card, and more.

As this is happening, I’ll also start listing my projects on eBay as well. I know a lot of folks have been asking for more info on these projects and where to get this stuff, and as I’m about to do this something always gets in the way.

Please stay tuned, and thank you for your interest my projects.

Hackers at it again!

So it seems like somewhere along the way the hackers managed to modify some files in HTML root once again. This wasn’t just me. A similar hack was used to take over thousands of WordPress sites.

I had to restore from backup again then set up some scripts to watch and report for unexpected changes.

Turns out they had access to the WordPress database as well, and that backdoor was saved in the backup I restored from.

After a simple manual cleanup and some plugin updates and removal, I believe the site is backdoor free and pretty well protected. I’m now looking forward to further hack attempts.

I will probably do a small write up on the methods they used and things that can be done to prevent it. Maybe it ends up helping someone with a similar problem.

Beta Testing Status

First of all, let me thank everyone that took a chance on my new project releases and helped my test them. Special thanks for the people out there (you know who you are) that reported back with feedback and provided suggestions on how to improve things.

The last few months were pretty exciting getting folks out there to put my stuff through the paces. These were some of my most complex projects to date and so the pressure was on.

Now that this is completed, based on the feedback I received, I believe these products are ready for public release:

  • PJ – Raspberry Pi to JAMMA Adapter
  • JAMMA Mate
  • JAMMA Test Card
  • Video Testers (4 different designs)
  • Cabinet Adapters (11 out of 12 at least)
  • New JAMMA Adapters

I will be adding more information on these projects to the site, then listing them on Ebay soon after. Please check these out if you are interested and a big thank you in advance if you chose to support my work.

PJ – Raspberry Pi to JAMMA beta test updates.

I sent a number of these out to people that wanted to be the first to test drive these boards. I’ve also compiled some documentation on this project.

The documentation can be found here. It includes the following topics:

  • Installing drivers on vanilla distros.
  • Configuring controls
  • Power management
  • Troubleshooting

I’m also creating a default distro based on the latest Retropie release. Most of the work on has already been completed.

This is a big project and getting everything ready is taking a long time. I totally underestimated, once again, how much time is required to get everything ready with an acceptable level of polish.

Site Hacked!

This came out of nowhere! I enter my url into a browser to find that I’ve won some prizes! Totally unexpected….

Usually, when crap like this happens, it’s Cloud at Cost trashing my VM, but this was different.

Turns out an exploit in WordPress’ Duplicator plugin (which I use for backups) allowed hackers to upload and modify PHP scripts to the HTML root and so they inserted some code to redirect a user to the site of their choice.

All I have to do now is to collect my prize….

Seriously though… the joke’s on them. I usually make a backup after each modification so I just simply restored it, disabled some plugins, and we were back in business. I may have lost some minor updates in the process, but nothing serious.

Based on what I saw though, the hacker also installed a backdoor and made a ton of changes to the WordPress core scripts. It would have been a drag cleaning this up without a full restore.