Re: A whole rom board gone bad?

That could be true. I definititely have one bad rom according to my
programmer. Maybe that's the only one causing the problem.

The difference I see between these roms and the ones on my two other
working board sets are My other two rom boards are marked with an 'A'
indicating revision 'A'. The other roms that ROMIDENT won't recognize are
not marked with any revision. So perhaps these were the very first batch
to come out?

The other querky thing is - I actually did swap 3 or 4 of the 'unkown'
roms into my working spacefury board and the game powered up and played
fine. But in self test it report 'Bad Roms' on these. Kind of makes you
go 'Hmmmmmmm......'.

I tend to believe there really *is* something wrong with them, but if
anyone wants to look at them I have them all on file. Just email me.

Matt

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On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Jon Raiford wrote:

> If it were me, I'd put those roms on a working board and see if the game
> plays.. Maybe you have a different revision than what has been previously
> dumped. Or maybe that is one of the bootleg versions? Do you think that
> that board is original? :)
>
> Jon
>
> At 09:16 AM 12/5/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >By the way, since I'll need to reprogram a whole set of roms. Are there
> >any major differences between Rev. A and Rev. C of Space Fury. Rev. C
> >seems to require two extra roms, but the only difference I can see is Rev.
> >C has 'Sega <c> 1981' printed on the screen. I'm sure it doesn't require
> >two extra roms to print that logo.
> >
> >Just curious.
> >
> >Matt
> >_____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Tek wrote:
> >
> >> Well - the obviuos question would be if the previous owner took off al
> >> labels, or replaced them by some plain paper ones?
> >> If this happened anything could have happenend, especially when placed
> >> in the sun for prolonged time.
> >>
> >> Mendel
> >>
> >> Matt Rossiter - Verio Southern California wrote:
> >> >
> >> > How likely is it that all the roms on a Space Fury rom board would loose
> >> > their data?
> >> >
> >> > I've taken a set of known working roms from Space Fury - saved them to a
> >> > file and they check out fine through Romident. And then I took all the
> >> > roms off of a non working rom board and saved them to a file (using my
> >> > handy rom programmer) - one the roms was obviously bad because my
> >> > programmer kept reporting a chip-select error, but it could read the rest
> >> > of them fine and save them each to a file. But when I passed them
> through
> >> > Romident they all failed. Romident has never failed me, even when
> >> > comparing Cinematronics prom chips. So - either I have a whole board of
> >> > unknown roms or they all lost their data.
> >> >
> >> > Has anyone seen a whole board of roms loose their data? I'm wondering if
> >> > someone left this out in the sun for a long time or something.
> >> >
> >> > I thought that that that that that that would be very unlikely to happen.
> >> >
> >> > Comments anyone?
> >> >
> >> > Matt
> >> >
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Received on Sun Dec 5 15:18:27 1999