Rukas
Student
Hi All,
I have a Version 2 Darksoft board and a Xmen VS SF PAL F board that was working okay.
The board I own is not suicided and still has the OG red battery installed.
The A board would run XvsSF with some missing sounds like dragon punch and the music would come in and out, graphics and sprites are fine.
The game itself played fine so rather than troubleshoot the sound issues I thought about using the darksoft board for multigame goodness.
This went fine and everything was plugged in as per the new darksoft instructions PDF and I had 2 SD cards (1 with decrypted roll up, & the other with the new 2020 pack from archive.org) https://archive.org/download/darksoft
When the key writing cable is plugged in the games boot to the RAM\CPU check screen and freeze. The background is also red not black like it is usually. When its not plugged in I get the light blue or just black screen.
As I have the latest darksoft board I have not explored any of the soldering options. I have shorted the EXC5 capacitor also just as a troubleshooting step.
The board is a Rev 6 PAL F board.
Decided I may aswell try and go back and use the OG romchips and fix the sound and install the darksoft board on a dead Pal G A board I have coming from ebay.
Now when I boot the A board it just displays a light blue screen just like the darksoft was doing initially when installed.
The battery reads 3.6V from each end and doesnt seem to be flat. Is it possible that the darksoft attempted to overwrite the OG keys and now the board just wont boot at all?
Sorry about the poor quality information I'm new to CPS gear.
So my main question is can I get my xvssf working again? or is this board dead now and need to be infinkeyed or install the darksoft into it again and just accept the OG xvssf wont work anymore?
Thanks in advance
Tim
I have a Version 2 Darksoft board and a Xmen VS SF PAL F board that was working okay.
The board I own is not suicided and still has the OG red battery installed.
The A board would run XvsSF with some missing sounds like dragon punch and the music would come in and out, graphics and sprites are fine.
The game itself played fine so rather than troubleshoot the sound issues I thought about using the darksoft board for multigame goodness.
This went fine and everything was plugged in as per the new darksoft instructions PDF and I had 2 SD cards (1 with decrypted roll up, & the other with the new 2020 pack from archive.org) https://archive.org/download/darksoft
When the key writing cable is plugged in the games boot to the RAM\CPU check screen and freeze. The background is also red not black like it is usually. When its not plugged in I get the light blue or just black screen.
As I have the latest darksoft board I have not explored any of the soldering options. I have shorted the EXC5 capacitor also just as a troubleshooting step.
The board is a Rev 6 PAL F board.
Decided I may aswell try and go back and use the OG romchips and fix the sound and install the darksoft board on a dead Pal G A board I have coming from ebay.
Now when I boot the A board it just displays a light blue screen just like the darksoft was doing initially when installed.
The battery reads 3.6V from each end and doesnt seem to be flat. Is it possible that the darksoft attempted to overwrite the OG keys and now the board just wont boot at all?
Sorry about the poor quality information I'm new to CPS gear.
So my main question is can I get my xvssf working again? or is this board dead now and need to be infinkeyed or install the darksoft into it again and just accept the OG xvssf wont work anymore?
Thanks in advance
Tim