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Month: March 2018

PCB Repair: Rolling Thunder

John here (first ever blog!)
A game we bought 20 years ago and, after a few failed attempts, was consigned to the cupboard of shame.
At boot it goes through the usual few pages of random tiles/sprites but then freezes.
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John Bennett
John Bennett

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  • March 29, 2018

PCB Repair: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Problem

No sound in-game. 10 tones followed by a ‘Sound Section Bad’ error during self-test.

(The owner had reported sporadic in-game pauses but I was unable to reproduce them. These occur when the main CPU is stuck waiting for the sound DSP to respond.)

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Philip Bennett
Philip Bennett
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  • March 29, 2018

PCB Repair: Rastan

Problem

Unstable sprites.

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Philip Bennett
Philip Bennett
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  • March 22, 2018

PCB Repair: Gradius III

 

Problem

No sound.

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Philip Bennett
Philip Bennett
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  • March 19, 2018

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