NoGoodCitizen
Student
Hi y'all, I don't post often here lately unless I'm buying something, so in a sense it's good to be back.
I'm putting together a Darksoft CPS2 kit for a friend of mine who provided both the kit and a suicided MSHvsSF B board (blue region). I'm wondering if some of my issues are related to the B board's condition, as it seems the battery exploded and corroded a few components in the surrounding areas close to it. I tried to clean things up as best as I could and move on with the install. Upon powering on I noticed that all I would get was a blank screen, so I thought, hmm.. strange. Looked at the LCD and it displayed absolutely nothing (lit up, no text info) - adjusted the brightness pot both ways, still, nothing. After about a couple hours of being frustrated on a random whim I hit down a few times on the keypad, then enter. The WRITE light kicked on over on the Darksoft board, so I waited. Suddenly, poof, I had a game playing. As it turns out it would appear the LCD isn't working properly and doesn't display any information, just a backlight.
So I breathed a sigh of relief as the game loaded, and... graphical artifacts & sprite errors everywhere, like whole characters missing and each game looking virtually unplayable unless you are into having invisible character wars. I don't think the kit is at fault for this, I question the quality of the original B board that was used to begin with. I tried everything from reseating all components multiple times to trying to adjust the pins on the rom slots of the B board over in the graphics bank to make better contact. I'm basically at a loss this point and am hoping to maybe get some insight, and if anything do what I can in my power to keep Mitsurugi from having to take in more work.
I am using a Toshiba 4gb SD card slow formatted (FAT32) through Windows Utility.
Any advice would be appreciated, I can post pictures of my work later when my phone is charged. Thanks
I'm putting together a Darksoft CPS2 kit for a friend of mine who provided both the kit and a suicided MSHvsSF B board (blue region). I'm wondering if some of my issues are related to the B board's condition, as it seems the battery exploded and corroded a few components in the surrounding areas close to it. I tried to clean things up as best as I could and move on with the install. Upon powering on I noticed that all I would get was a blank screen, so I thought, hmm.. strange. Looked at the LCD and it displayed absolutely nothing (lit up, no text info) - adjusted the brightness pot both ways, still, nothing. After about a couple hours of being frustrated on a random whim I hit down a few times on the keypad, then enter. The WRITE light kicked on over on the Darksoft board, so I waited. Suddenly, poof, I had a game playing. As it turns out it would appear the LCD isn't working properly and doesn't display any information, just a backlight.
So I breathed a sigh of relief as the game loaded, and... graphical artifacts & sprite errors everywhere, like whole characters missing and each game looking virtually unplayable unless you are into having invisible character wars. I don't think the kit is at fault for this, I question the quality of the original B board that was used to begin with. I tried everything from reseating all components multiple times to trying to adjust the pins on the rom slots of the B board over in the graphics bank to make better contact. I'm basically at a loss this point and am hoping to maybe get some insight, and if anything do what I can in my power to keep Mitsurugi from having to take in more work.
I am using a Toshiba 4gb SD card slow formatted (FAT32) through Windows Utility.
Any advice would be appreciated, I can post pictures of my work later when my phone is charged. Thanks
