This sounds like what I did. One of my two Maximum Tune games (Type III) had a core board that failed, possibly due to a bad cap leaking. I don't remember what it did as far as which lights flashed and which didn't, but Ken was patient with me and diagnosed it over the phone as not being simply...
Got out to the garage today since it wasn't too cold. Both games are linked and work for head-to-head racing! Only a few minor issues left to address:
On what has been the more troublesome of the two cabinets, the shifter doesn't recognize 6th gear--when I shift to 6th it thinks the shifter...
I went into the menu to be sure the pedals were responding, exited out of the setup menu and still had the problem. I'll check the 5v and see where that is. Maybe the steering board is power hungry and dropped the voltage like what happened with the Chihiro pcb earlier.
Got the steering pcb and I/O board in today from Bruce on ebay. Everything looks good, but now I get to the "Insert coin" main screen and add a credit but pressing the pedal doesn't start the game. Simple enough, but all buttons and pedals test fine and respond in the diagnostics menu. Both...
Looks like the good cabinet's steering pcb got cabinet #2 past the error 20. So those LED's on the faulty board indicate some sort of issue. No idea what, because the boards look fine, but obviously that doesn't matter much. Now I'm at a card writer error #55 which I imagine means I need to...
The dip switches are the same, but what's odd is that on the working cabinet LED's 3 and 4 are not lit (they are located off to the far corner next to a socket without a chip in it. Those LED's are lit on cabinet #2...so I assume that's an error of some sort. The LED's are under the "N" in...
Progress! I had verified the proper 3.3 and 5 volts Saturday when I had a non-working setup. I checked it again today and after readjusting them, I now have a picture and sound on cabinet #2! It seems like cabinet #2's I/O board is faulty since it still powers up with all LED's lit red and it...
Cabinet #1 works fine. Setup number two is using the bottom half of the Chihiro pcb from a known working HotD 3 and the top is from cabinet #2 of Maximum Tune. I plugged this unit into my HotD 3 cabinet and it booted fine to the point where it was searching for a steering wheel--so that's...
This is a 50" screen. It's an arcade monitor but I forget the brand. It looks fine. The yellow stuff on the monitor is old adhesive from when I temporarily removed the black plastic bezel that surround the monitor.
Just to put this thread to bed--I ended up swapping in the bottom half of my Type 1 HotD 3 to the MT game. It works, based on testing it in my HotD 3 cabinet, but now I'm trying to figure out why I'm not getting any picture in my cabinet. I'll move over to tech help for that. Thanks for all...
Here's a batch of pictures to serve as a formal introduction--cables that are in the card reader, the two main boards in the faulty Chihiro (no Status lights were lighting up...no red, no green...everything else in the cabinet was lit the same as my working cabinet) my row of games (NAOMI works...
I've been scouring the internet to see what is for sale and how the prices are. Thing is, the complete games are almost always cheaper than buying parts because of space and logistics issues. So a $400 OR2 doesn't necessarily mean hard to find parts are a fraction of that price. I think...
See, that would be great. I'm ok with being done with my HotD 3 setup but I don't want to tear that board apart unless it's known that it would be a solution.