The Gladiator - not booting / garbled video output

[dexa]

Hey everyone,

I have a Gladiator cart here which just shows the following output:

Spoiler

Pictures of the PCBs here:

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Visually I don't see any components missing when comparing the photos to the PCB scans available.
I already removed and inserted the EPROMs but that did not change the video output.

Anything I can try to fix it?

 

[GC8TECH]

I presume other games work fine with your Motherboard??

T.

 

[dexa]

Yes, no problem with any other game.

 

[GC8TECH]

I presume you have cleaned the contacts on the Cart??

 

[Fluffy]

I'd dump the program EPROM (U6 I guess?) and compare it with a version from MAME.

 

[dexa]

I'd dump the program EPROM (U6 I guess?) and compare it with a version from MAME.

C:\Mame>mame.exe -romident u6.bin
Identifying u6.bin....
u6.bin = v100.u6 theglad101 The Gladiator / Shen Jian Fu Mo Lu / Shen Jian Fengyun (M68k label V100) (ARM label V101, ROM 03/13/03 SHEN JIAN)
= v100.u6 theglad104 The Gladiator / Shen Jian Fu Mo Lu / Shen Jian Fengyun (M68k label V100) (ARM label V104, ROM 04/02/03 SHEN JIAN V104)
= v100_u43.u43 thegladpcb Tougenkyou - Road of the Sword (M68k label V100) (ARM label V101, ROM 03/13/03 SHEN JIAN) (Japan, JAMMA PCB)
= v100_u43.u43 thegladpcba Tougenkyou - Road of the Sword (M68k label V100) (ARM label V100, ROM 02/25/03 SHEN JIAN) (Japan, JAMMA PCB)

C:\Mame>mame.exe -romident u26.bin
Identifying u26.bin....
u26.bin NO MATCH
No roms matched.

Looking at the "theglad.zip" my u26 version v103 EPROM seems to be missing from MAME.
Or is the u26 corrupt and I just dont see the file in the zip?

Anything I can try now? Should I update the EPROMs to their latest versions? U6 v101 and U26 v107?

 

[Fluffy]

If you have suitable EPROMs laying around I'd just try burning fresh ones. The other option is that one of the GAL is toast, but I don't think we have dumps of them.