So been putting off asking about this issue for some time. When I finally got my CPS2 multi going around November '16, I played the heck out of it but didn't touch it again for some months until April or so. I noticed when I turned it on the multi again April, it was making some awful sounds. I had to travel for for much of last month, so I could not attend to it. Picked it up again today. And it's still making the same awful sounds (overt beeping sounds, scratches, cut off audio cues, crackling). Here is a short video of what is going one but isn't indicative of the entire problem. Sometimes wrong audio cues are playing in conjunction with the moves on screen:
I had a similar problem when I first got the multi, but it was much more severe. I resolved that by securing a rev. 7 XvSF w/G-PAL donor board which fixed the problem until recently. Very disappointing since this is now the 3rd B-board I am using for the multi (they were all suicided previously). Today, I switched A-boards, and after going through one cycle of attract mode where the sounds were still bad, it went through a few cycles were the sound was perfect. I thought, "Cool. It's fixed!" Then it went back to being inflicted with the audio issues again. This issue follows any game I switch to. I picked up another dead XvSF board rev 4 w/F-PAL and am ready to use that as yet another donor board. But before I do, what could be wrong? All the boards are sandwiched together tightly. Is it possible the crackling audio fix has come loose from the mainboard? Do I have a defective CPS2 multi?
I had a similar problem when I first got the multi, but it was much more severe. I resolved that by securing a rev. 7 XvSF w/G-PAL donor board which fixed the problem until recently. Very disappointing since this is now the 3rd B-board I am using for the multi (they were all suicided previously). Today, I switched A-boards, and after going through one cycle of attract mode where the sounds were still bad, it went through a few cycles were the sound was perfect. I thought, "Cool. It's fixed!" Then it went back to being inflicted with the audio issues again. This issue follows any game I switch to. I picked up another dead XvSF board rev 4 w/F-PAL and am ready to use that as yet another donor board. But before I do, what could be wrong? All the boards are sandwiched together tightly. Is it possible the crackling audio fix has come loose from the mainboard? Do I have a defective CPS2 multi?