Re: Star Wars Tie fighter issues

From: Kevin Moore <talon.k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 02 2012 - 16:09:05 EDT

Yes it will also do that shortly after you get to the surface and start
dogging towers instead of going in the trench on wave 1. So it appears
linked to the tie fighters in some way.

Kevin

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 3:00 PM, vectorlist-steve <
vectorlist@arcadehacking.com> wrote:

> I just watched the video a second time and you can clearly see the stars
> instantly spread out just as the tie fighters expand in size right at the
> 11 second mark. The jumbo sized objects also return to normal at 47
> seconds in. Interesting!
>
>
>
> On 8/2/2012 12:54 PM, vectorlist-steve wrote:
>
>> Video shows not only the tie fighters having issues but possibly the
>> death start and trench too. It really looks like a scaling issue but it
>> recovered a few seconds into the trench run. Hummmm
>>
>>
>> On 8/2/2012 12:48 PM, Kevin Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Ok enough about Battlezone headers hacks etc. Let's get back to this
>>> Star Wars board.
>>>
>>> Here's the video incase you haven't already seen it, or as a refresher.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=XiKbXX4T8ew<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiKbXX4T8ew>
>>>
>>> Break down.
>>>
>>> Voltages good.
>>> Swapped out with known good main board no more problem. So problem
>>> follows Main board.
>>>
>>> Self tests do no indicate any problems. Hardware, Matrix, or Scaling.
>>>
>>> So far I have replaced Prom sockets, CPU sockets.
>>> Have verified Proms, and replaced JIC
>>> Replaced all Ram JIC.
>>> Swapped out and checked all Eproms.
>>>
>>> So unless I'm missing something else easy all the easy stuff is done.
>>>
>>> Does it cold, does it hot. No waiting for the game to warm up for this
>>> to happen. Very repeatable.
>>>
>>> Attract mode works fine. Once you pick a level, and start Stars look
>>> good, but as soon as the first Tie appears they go into like a slow motion
>>> movement, and it causes a slight rainbow color affect on the monitor. I
>>> believe because it's trying to over drive the monitor.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
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