Operation Wolf 3 Arcade PCB Repair And Some Info
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2022
- A couple of things to note with this board. The timekeeper and Sub-A pcb gun board are essential for this game to boot. Without these 2 parts (especially a timekeeper) the game will not start. The fujitsu MB8421 ram is responsible for some of the foreground as well as text sprites. The large Taito TC0480 SCP QFP is graphics generator IC. It is responsible for the graphics in the game.
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These repair vids are my favorite. I could watch them all day.
Thanks a lot Ramon, Im glad you enjoy them and thanks for watching!
Nice to see Operation Wolf 3, one of the lesser-known games.
That there is one of the reasons why I wanted to get this board back up and running again. Not as common as the first 2 but its alive again :) Thanks my friend
Thanks so much for posting this. As you pointed out so little info on this game. This may be the first actual video of the real pcb running online. I believe all others are from MAME which has some gfx bugs. Looking forward to an upcoming game play video of it. Always enjoy the repair videos, and even more for the rarer games.
There is a small clip of the attract mode running on what seems to be the original cabinet, though can't tell if the original pcb is inside or it's just running MAME. Try searching "Arcade Operation Wolf 3 fully Restored"
@@Brock2097 thanks ill check it out
I also think this is the only video showing the game running which is weird. I know that there isnt any info on the custom chips really online so I decided to put that in the description. I will put up a gameplay video here in the next few days :) Thanks as always!
I played this at Arcade Club here in the UK. It has very little to do with Operation Wolf. It feels more like a failed Terminator game.
Great work getting it working. I would have no clue where to start.
Great video.
Thanks a lot as usual! It was made during a time where we saw a lot of similar games. Lethal Enforcers, Terminator, Revolution X , etc. It doesnt get a whole lot of attention but it is a neat one in the series I think. Definitely not fair lol.
Great to see you still going with these repair videos.
Another great video Luke, you have a lot of skill and talent in getting these old video game board’s work, looking forward to seeing more from you.
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it David.
Another good repair and nicely described too per usual! Another classic board saved !
Thank you very much. Glad it is up and running again!
I love that intro: the terrorists have took over some island and are armed with nuclear weapon.
Haha, it's about as much cheese and half-A@@!d as you can expect from this era. Gotta love it.
Thanks for this one Luke, as a game it's probably not as noteworthy as the first two but this has one of my favorite very noisy attract modes
Awesome stuff my friend! Hopefully I can do some vids on the other ones in the future but I know what you mean lol.
what an awesome job !! very cool dude !!
Thank you so much Eddie, really appreciate it
While I was watching the glitched graphics I was thinking "well, these are some incredibly cheesy '90s effects!", and I have to say I'm kinda sad it was a glitch! XD
The game still looks very, very cheesy, though, so i'm happy with that!
Great video as always, sir!
LOL. yeah, with or without the graphic glitches, this game is full of cheese. Just glad to have it running again. Thanks for watching!
Another save Luke 👍.
Picture quality looked way better after that last round of reworks, especially as you managed to bypass around using a the VGA video convertor.
Look forward to seeing you playing thru a few stages maybe 🤠✌️.
Haha, Yeah, looking at the before and after helped out a lot with this one. Ill put up some gameplay on it next here. I need to wire it up to test it out anyway. Thanks again man!
another good save. keep up the amazing content
Thanks a million my friend as always!
From "is junk" to "is fully functioning" 😎
Doctor Lukemorse1 does it again 👍👌
Lol, you said it Cahos! glad to have it fully running again!
Congrats on this one!!! Luke for president!!! ;-)
Thanks for that! ....and I'll pass on the later half haha
Another great video Luke, thanks mate. Being only amateur at electronics I am mesmerised by these videos. Do you work in this industry or its just a hobby? Never even knew there was Operation wolf 2 let alone 3......Used to have the original on a pc in the 90's was pretty cool with the mouse. Cheers mate.
Thanks a lot my friend. I only work in this area as a hobby enthusiast. Not for anything more than bringing these dead games and systems back to life. This board is much less common than the first 2 but its neat. Having the PC version sounds pretty cool as well.
Dude .. Operation wolf 🐺 3 saved from the grave
Yeah Jake! this monster is a live and kicking again, Howl!
Cool repair
Thanks again there Tony!
@@lukemorse1 yw
Thank you so much Luke for the Great video.
Those "TimeKeeper" chips can be a real hassle. What struck me about this board is
the amount of replacement that had to be done. As well as a few thoughts and questions
about this board. One, did you have to repair any traces like you normally, well, ha ha "normally"
have to do. Two, that pin you removed, I wonder what it's function is or was on the board previous
to it's "Junk" status from whatever damages that happened to this board.
Is it necessary to the function of the system as a whole or some specific part of the game? Only way to tell
is play the game right? Lol I honestly think we need more videos like this one explaining boards that have very
little documentation and discussion about them. Sure, this game isn't as glam as a CPS1 or CPS2 or CPS3 board.
However, it is still very important to have content like this and I am super happy for future people needing this info.
Haha, no problem at all! There was a lot that needed to go into fixing this one and I am lucky I had the parts. The bottom of the board didnt have any trace damage but when it arrived, it had previous repairs on the board. Because one of the qfp's was shorting to ground, it is possible that it killed the other customs on the board. WIth ram and other ttl IC's there are sometimes pins that arent utilized. If you have the schematics, it is easy to tell but without them, it can be a bit of a guessing game. Hoping that some of this will help out someone in the future at least. Thanks a lot as always!
Hey Luke, great video man! I really can´t tell if you´re missing some graphics or not, it´s hard to tell with the lcd screen, might be easier to tell on a crt. I think you should run it on MAME, and then you could tell if you´re missing something or not. I love the 1st oparation wolf, god, what a great game, whit that uzi and the feedback, but it flashes too much, I suffer from photosensitivity, so a game like that could knock me out. Anyhow, great video, and love your style, god bless you my friend.
Looking at system16 it only shows 2 games using this hardware with it being kind of similar to the F2 board. Great to see a rare type of board not used much at all.
Yeah, it is really strange isnt it? I wonder why only 2 games were made. Maybe because they were moving on to F3 hardware? nevertheless, thanks as always for watching and glad to have this running again.
@@lukemorse1 It is modified F2 hardware. I believe they added extra memory for the digitized sprites. I don't know why they bothered making the F2 system when the F1 is much more capable.
Not a huge fan of these games but they always seem to do well in the arcade. I'm sure some of these chips would have survived longer if they'd had a heat sink or something.
Nice work Luke. How many more to go?
I can understand that for sure. You are right though, these boards will last much longer with fans or heatsinks. I usually put fans on the ones that use a lot of energy and produce a lot of heat. Some of the positioning of these chips can make it difficult though. Essentially we are at the end of the repairs for now. I need to go back and take a look at one more board but most are done. Thanks as always!
Do you think you can do another room tour? Been a while, love watching your old videos
I would love to do a room tour but it seems that the room tours make some people extremely upset for various reasons so I dont have any plans on doing one anytime soon. Thanks again though.
hmmm not super familiar with this one. I've played the first one on NES and a bit in the arcade and I knew of the sequel operation thunderbolt but that's basically it. I forgot there was a third game! definitely a vast improvement after all the repairs, for sure!!
This one is a bit of an oddball compared to the first two and I cant remember but maybe it is unrelated? It is neat though in its own way and much more different than the first 2 for sure. Thanks for checking out the vid as usual my friend and hope you are doing well.
Just realised your channel will be 15yo in September. I feel old 😿
WOW! now I do too! I had no idea about that at all. Thats a long time on YT for sure.
Awesome video as usual Luke. Just wondering if you offer any type of repair services. It's hard to find trustworthy people to work on your stuff nowadays and you seem to definitely trustworthy so I'm just inquiring. Thank you
Thank you for that and thanks for watching. Unfortunately I dont offer any repair services, just these videos here. The trustworthy part really goes both ways with repairs and sadly, like you mentioned, it can backfire on the repairer as well. Thanks for asking though and hope you are well.
@@lukemorse1 well that’s cool and sucks at the same time!! Lol. Maybe you can point me in the right direction. I have a rush 2049 and out of the 6 speakers I have one in the actual marquee that doesn’t work. Since you don’t actually work on others stuff, would you mind if I upload a close up of my board and you tell me if you notice anything? By the way. The speaker itself is actually good. I swapped it with the other side.
I admire your patience and determination, but was this game really worth the effort? How long did this repair take?
Haha, thanks man. It took quite a bit of time on and off and considering the rarity of the game, it was worth it in the end. If it was a Mahjong puzzle game, I would have stopped after the first 10 min or so.
A bitter lesson in how not to let a 3rd party company ruin a franchise. Because Operation Wolf 3 was developed by East Technology. The same folks behind Double Dragon 3. The main problem with Operation Wolf 3 is that it looks like a Lethal Enforcer rip-off.
Wow I didn't know that... no wonder it's terrible.
Yeah, it really does look like it "borrowed" some ideas from Lethal Enforcers for sure lol. Companies switching up devs and mixing stuff up.
¥1000 is about US$8.20. Not too bad.
Lol, I totally forgot I was using Yen instead of USD. Yes, you are right though and it wasnt a bad deal at all :)
master luke... no difference i see ^^
awesome !
your voice sounds kinda different... got a cold?
Thanks for that :) Its possibly a raspy voice from not drinking enough water lol. Not sure but thanks again!
@@lukemorse1 life, water is, master luke ;-)
Hey Luke just curious first timer call long timer listener learnt a heap over watching your stuff, I've got my hands on a few boards to play around with inc a OW3 , was wondering about tracking a set of schematics for this bad boy and or in general harder to track diagrams for boards, any suggestions are appreciated mate.
Cheers Franky
Just picked up this board and am wondering how you got video originally on your lcd? Mine won't sync on my converter. I also didn't understand the sync resistor mod you did, you said after you weren't using a converter, yet it looked like you were still going into an lcd panel, how?
Do you not have the equipment to dump the PALs?
Does the Time Keeper Chip save the settings for the game? My OP3 boots and plays fine. It will not hold the settings for mirrored and free play.
Is there any programming that will need to be done to the chip , pruir to ot being installed?
Thanks
RJ
I am having similar issues with my OP3, it doesn't save the gun positions after a power off and I have to re calibrate the guns every time. I was thinking about getting a new time keeper chip too but also wonder if it has to be programmed or not.
Can you explain programming the timekeeper?
Could make some money dumping and making reproduction chips
7:44 I would say so, considering it's actually booting lulz
Luckily, a lot of these boards are still going because the really smart engineers have been able to recreate some of these custom chips. Gotta thank guys like Fuurtek and Caius, and DarkSoft for things like that.
Luke morse ROOCKSSS
Operation Wolf THREE??