Ok for starters, you say it was working but then go on to say it was sold to you as non working "because the battery was changed incorrectly" - have YOU seen this board working correctly? Or are you taking someone's word for it?Hello Undammed,Ok, if game was working with battery, that's a good starting point. Yeah, try all SZ2 codes.Rev. 5 Jumper does not matter on Rev 3/4 installation. It doesn't hurt open or shorted. There is only so much room for text on PCB, so that is simplest/safest text
When you say "video on green," do you mean that game is running fine, but picture looks very green?-ud
I had recieved my eprom reader and I had read the rom 3 and 4, and later I identified the roms usind mame rom ident and the roms matched with sfz2h. I don't kwon what more to do
Please, help me with some ideas.
Thanks for the info! I've been soldering for years (arcade wiring and mechanical keyboard PCBs, mostly), but recently switched from a cheapo Microcenter station to a nice Hakko station with a more precise read-out - evidently I don't know what temperature I WAS soldering at on the old one! All good though, it was salvageable. Definitely should have tested more on something else.
Do you have any idea why a specific CPS A board I have would display a white screen? If you know which pins / area to look at? Given all the B boards infinikey'd or not work on other A boards, I am thinking if my A board has developed fault somewhere. I know this is the infinikey thead hopefully ud wont mind, but since this came up would be good to know.
I checked paradise and they're out. I did PM you a couple of months back. I'm still interested as well, please message me back.
I would check all EPROMs (anything with a UV sticker, not mask ROMs for graphics/sound) against MAME files.I had recieved my eprom reader and I had read the rom 3 and 4, and later I identified the roms usind mame rom ident and the roms matched with sfz2h. I don't kwon what more to do
Please, help me with some ideas.
I quadruple checked my Infinikey install, and even tried installing a second brand new key in case I toasted the original. Still dead to the world. I don't have a blank eeprom handy to burn Razoola's tester, nor do I have a UV eraser (and I've read that the UV LED methods online don't really work) to recycle an existing ROM. May look at ordering a blank ROM later this week.They're not, until the encryption keys are loaded, main program isn't run.
Also, why do you still have a battery on there if you're installing an InfiniKey - get rid of that, short your EXC5 and check your InfiniKey install
So-called blank EPROM's are often not blank at all. I bought this germicidal lamp from Amazon and it kicks all kinds of arse for erasing chips. Get it next day or 2 days for a quick fix.
Awesome! I had seen that method mentioned, but didn't realize the lamps were so cheap. Will definitely pick one up.
Got my UV lamp, wiped the ROM in socket 3, and wrote the suicide tester to it. Still getting a faint bluey screen, then after a power cycle still getting a green screen. In the suicide tester README, it mentions verifying that ROM 1 and 2 were valid - I dumped them and compared to romident: they both are recognizable as Darkstlakers ROMs. What doesn't make sense to me is that the rom in Socket 3 doesn't receive 5 volts if the correct decryption key isn't injected. So I guess I don't understand how a program on a rom in socket 3 is supposed to test the board for suicide if a suicided board doesn't get to the point of initializing those ROMs...
Hello, sorry I new, how do I “short” the EXC5?Ok for starters, you say it was working but then go on to say it was sold to you as non working "because the battery was changed incorrectly" - have YOU seen this board working correctly? Or are you taking someone's word for it?Hello Undammed,Ok, if game was working with battery, that's a good starting point. Yeah, try all SZ2 codes.Rev. 5 Jumper does not matter on Rev 3/4 installation. It doesn't hurt open or shorted. There is only so much room for text on PCB, so that is simplest/safest textWhen you say "video on green," do you mean that game is running fine, but picture looks very green?-ud
I had recieved my eprom reader and I had read the rom 3 and 4, and later I identified the roms usind mame rom ident and the roms matched with sfz2h. I don't kwon what more to do
Please, help me with some ideas.
You said on another board that it worked after installation but it was all green, I've seen this happen on boards where the keys are still partially in memory. Shorting EXC5 would solve this except you should be using the same keys just without a battery. Double check your installation.
