A quick apology and questions about debuging Cloak & Dagger boards with a fluke 9010

First of all, to all those waiting on the 9100 keyboard wedge. I have to apologize. My wife and I are expecting our first child on the 24th. And I have found myself more busy over the past nine months that I could have possibly imagined.

As we are now pretty much "ready" for her arrival I now have a little time over the next few days to try and get a few last game things caught up. I do have to do them in the order that I received them which means the wedges are 3rd in my list of priority right now. Luckily the part that still needs work is software and I can do that upstairs on my laptop after she has arrived. So don't give up hope yet :)

Ok back to my #1 priority right now. A Cloak & Dagger problem that is driving me nuts.

Set #1 works perfectly, self test reports no problems, fluke ram / rom tests all check out ok.

Set #2 appears to work, self test reports, fluke ram / rom tests all ok
"Master roms bad;
Loc; 00;00;00;00
Slave roms bad;
 loc; 00;00;00;00;00;00"

Set #3, Fluke found bad master roms 503 & 504 burned replacements now check ok.
But self test reports same as set # 2.

I would dearly love to know what in the heck the self test is doing. On occasion the rom locations will be some apparently random hex value as they don't match any board rom.

On #2 & #3 I am sure the problem resides on the master cpu board as I have used the slave cpu from set #1 to check them.

Anyone know if there are catbox docs out there for C&D? Or have ideas on how to debug these?

Oh, and trivia:

Self test appears to have a bug. First boot with ST switch results in color ram error reported for chip 8B. Reset will clear the error. %100 repeatable on all 3 boards.

And another trivia: On first boot, watch the attract mode. When the spy goes to the 3rd down conveyer belt to collect the extra life box it is drawn with the "Mystery" box graphic. All subsequent attract modes will use the correct graphic.

David

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Received on Mon Feb 16 04:39:14 2004