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Tech and Marketplace / I need help with my game! - Technical Discussion / Re: Rockola Eyes help
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on: June 20, 2016, 01:11:12 am
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As John would say "it's hosed"
Basically you have a (extremely common) board fault. Could be RAM or ROMs or logic or a bad connection/bad socket(s) or broken track(s). If you have no idea it may be better to look for someone who can do repairs and send it to them. If you want to fix it yourself you need to buy some basic equipment and research info on doing PCB repairs for at least 1 month or 1 year or 10 years. Watch PCB repair vids on youtube (Adam has a few good ones), read books about PCB repairs, including arcade manuals and figure out how to read schematics. Read books/datasheets about how logic chips work. etc etc etc. Then get a junker PCB and practice on it. At the very least you need a logic probe, multi-meter, pointed cutters, soldering iron, solder sucker, new DIP sockets, EPROM programmer and preferably schematics for the board you want to work on. As a starter check the ROMs against the known good MAME ROM-set using EPROM programmer. If good, check clocks and activity using logic probe. If good, check RAM. If good you have a logic problem or broken track.
This post really needs to be stickied. The basic repair info above is common to almost every "My board doesn't work, how can I fix it?" type of question that gets asked all over the net.
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Tech and Marketplace / I need help with my game! - Technical Discussion / Re: someone here plz help me with my dirt dash arcade
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on: June 14, 2016, 08:01:38 am
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Dirt Dash is Namco Super System 22. 4 boards plugged into in a metal cage with custom connectors. All the PCBs are surface mounted and there's tons of RAM on each PCB. It's impossible to work on it while powered up because the boards are not accessible and it won't work at all if even one PCB is removed. Super System 22 is a pig to repair. I know, I have all of the SS22 games and a very large box full of spare PCBs). Your only course is find another working board set or buy the individual PCBs and swap them one at a time. All the PCBs are identical across all of the games on that system so you can use any board from any game, but the ROM board is all surface mounted so you can't just swap ROMs, you must swap the entire PCB. You can swap the small program ROM board that plugs into the CPU board and the EPROMs and protection chip which are all socketed to another CPU board and try that. If still no luck, swap out each of the other PCBs (video board, DSP board). Those PCBs are really only repairable by the most die-hard repair experts... and no that's not including me ;-)
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Tech and Marketplace / I need help with my game! - Technical Discussion / Re: Space Invaders II Sound issue
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on: June 14, 2016, 07:40:08 am
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Space Invaders uses multiple LM3900's (from memory about 6 or 7). Try replacing all of them. That will likely fix your saucer sound too. Otherwise you have a logic fault. Not surprising really for a game that's nearly 40 years old ;-) There's not that many logic chips, you could just change all of them in shotgun style and as a side effect it'll bullet-proof your board for the future too. Be sure to replace the logic chips with new parts and test them in an EPROM programmer to make sure they really are good. Also use machine pin sockets, not cheap dual-wipe sockets.... Space Invaders deserves the best ;-)
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Tech and Marketplace / I need help with my game! - Technical Discussion / Re: Ms Pacman bootleg board
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on: June 14, 2016, 07:27:23 am
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Its a really simple PCB with just ROM/RAM/CPU and logic so it's very easy to fix and a perfectly good example of something to learn on..... and as long as the PCB is in good condition it's probably worth spending time on it. The watchdog means the CPU is trying to run the program but there's a problem, either the code is corrupt or it's waiting for something to happen and it takes too long. So the watchdog is working and you don't need to mess with it. Check/re-seat ROMs. Check for a clock at the crystal and on the Z80 at pin 6. Replace the work RAM (the RAM near the Z80) Check/replace Z80 and/or check/find logic fault. Start at the CPU and work backwards to get to the address logic/ROM/RAM etc inter-connections. The CPU circuit on Pacman is not very big so if you follow the theory behind the Repair 101 videos by Adam you should be able to figure it out in time.
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Tech and Marketplace / I need help with my game! - Technical Discussion / Re: Frogger sound help please
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on: June 14, 2016, 07:05:08 am
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On Frogger the sound is generated on the top board. Assuming the AMP is getting 12v, wet your finger and touch the underside of the PCB where the amp is multiple times. Touch all of the pins and somewhere you will hear a pop sound. If no pop the AMP IC may be bad or the electrolytic caps that connect the AMP IC output pin to the edge connector pin (which goes to the speaker) may be bad. If you hear a pop, re-seat the ROMs and/or replace the sockets. If that doesn't help you have a RAM/CPU or logic fault. The PCB is pretty easy to fix. Do this in order (on the top board).... Clean 18-pin edge connector both sides Re-seat ROMs Replace sockets Replace RAM Replace Z80 Find logic fault
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Tech and Marketplace / I need help with my game! - Technical Discussion / Re: WWF Wrestlefest sound question
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on: June 14, 2016, 06:50:17 am
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You have sound so it's not voltage/wiring or PCB. It's either a dip switch setting or the ROMs you have are a different revision. Check all the versions of that game in MAME and burn new program ROMs for the version you want and that may fix it. You just need to burn new program ROMs not everything. Also, look on the PCB (or in the manual/PDF). The PCB may have another connector for 2nd speaker to give stereo and the missing sound may be coming out of that (currently unconnected) speaker.
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