TurboDuo sound issue - No Sound coming out of the left channel

[ceti alpha]

Ask Dean, he said soon. Probably as soon as he gets his next big sale posted up.

Cool. I'm not totally familiar with the flash cards. What exactly are they capable of doing? Obviously they can store games/ROMS.

[nat]

My primary reason for getting one was to be able to play third-party translated Japanese games on my real TurboDuo (or SuperGrafx). Also, independently released games like Tongueman's Logic which isn't available in ISO format for burning to a CD. Otherwise you'd be stuck playing these things in an emulator on your computer.

Blue Blink, Bubblegum Crash, Wonderboy in Monster Land, etc....

Good stuff!

You can also use them to play homebrew tech demos (such as Chris Covell's stuff and the stuff you find in Zeograd's Lair) on the real hardware. They interface with your computer via USB and transferring ROMs is quick and painless.

[ceti alpha]

Cool.

They interface with your computer via USB and transferring ROMs is quick and painless.

Very cool. Would this assist in recording gameplay, or am I just completely off the track? 

[nat]

Completely off track.

Imagine the flash cart as a "blank HuCard" in the same way a CD-RW is a rewritable blank CD. You can write ("burn") to the flash cart much in the same way you would a CD-RW. And like a CD-RW, you can write to it again, and again, and again. You do this via a USB port on your computer.

[ceti alpha]

Completely off track.

Imagine the flash cart as a "blank HuCard" in the same way a CD-RW is a rewritable blank CD. You can write ("burn") to the flash cart much in the same way you would a CD-RW. And like a CD-RW, you can write to it again, and again, and again. You do this via a USB port on your computer.

LMAO! Yeah, I figured. It's awesome though. Beats using CD-Rs. Anyway, thanks Nat for clearing up my noob questions. lol  :-"

I will wait a bit before picking up a new laser unit.  Spent to much money already.  The wife is going to love this Shocked  Just ordered a 64MB PC-Engine Flash card.

Hey, would she rather you be a compulsive gambler and drinker, or maybe she'd prefer you spending your money in greasy strip joints. I'm just saying there's worse things you could be spending your money on. A Turbo hobby is really quite innocent - maybe not as innocent as stamp collecting, but pretty damn innocent. 

[turbokon]

Good point ceti alpha.  Next time she naggs me, I'll play the gambling/strip joint card on here

[turbokon]

Went ahead and ordered the new laser unit yesterday.  I played my cd-r copy of lords of thunder yesterday and it was loading really slow between stages and after getting murdered in the snow stage, it just stalled in the "game over" screen, you know the screen with your sword and helmet laying on the ground.

[turbokon]

I decided to open up the duo and you know what, looks like somebody already replaced the capicitors.  It looks like the one on the lower left is shorted, maybe that's why I have no sound on the left side.

[nodtveidt]

Holy shit, that is one sloppy soldering job. My wife could solder better than that.

[nat]

Yeah see if you can separate that solder. It might fix your issue.

[nodtveidt]

A desoldering iron would be best, but a braid would work too.

[Michael Helgeson]

Ugg. Get your equipment out and fix that crap.

[ceti alpha]

Yeah, I'm no Mr. Fixit in terms of electronics, but even I can tell that's a crappy soldering job.

[turbokon]

When I removed the cap, I saw that the contact point for burnt off.  I was wondering why the system isn't fried since the cap was shorted.  Anyway, luckilty I was able to re-route the positive end of the cap to a nearby resistor.  Since I had it opened, I wented replace the two op-amps to give the sounds signal a boost.  Works like a charm, sound from both channels and it's lord and pride

[turbokon]

Here is the pix for the two op-amps I replaced.