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Gladiator free play bugged

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I put my Gladiator cart on free play and noticed it has a funny bug that pretty much makes it unusable in any public setting. It will display the attract demo normally on boot, but after you start a game, it will not return to the attract demo at all. When you game over, it will display the title graphics with a countdown and then start a new game, without any user interaction. Indefinitely. I've had it now loop for an hour.

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My cart is v100, but I also tried the v107 theglad.zip in Mame and it behaves the same.

Does anyone's cart or PCB work correctly?
 
If it does the same thing in MAME it sounds like that’s just how the game is written, that’s a bummer though!
 
I have a hard time seeing it as intended behaviour. It just doesn't make sense.

Anyway, just making sure noone is sitting on a undumped version of the game that has this bug fixed.

@GC8TECH, anyone noticed this on your Discord?
 
Arcades that charge a flat entry fee and have all the machines set to free play are definitely more common now, especially in Western countries, than they were back when these games were made. I think it's really possible that this behavior was good enough for someone who was an owner or was just testing the game, but no one really paid any attention to how it would work in a public setting.

It would be nice if it showed the attract mode, but this behavior I suppose isn't entirely unusable in public. Someone can still pick up the game and play it.
 
People usually want to start a new game, not continue a game that has been left running. A few reasons for this would be

most games have some kind of tutorial
character selection
you have no way of knowing if the game sitting on the beginning level, or level 99
 
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