RE: Spy Hunter help?

   FWIW, my first arcade game was a Tron. It worked perfectly, but the
self-test always showed the Sound Board Interface Error at the top of
the screen. But the sound test, which supposedly goes through all of
the sounds the game can produce, always worked correctly.

   I learned to ignore it... :)

   Peace!

-=- James R. Twine, (spam@jrtwine.com)
http://www.jrtwine.com
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From: owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Rich Gopstein
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:21 AM
To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: Re: RASTER: Spy Hunter help?

You were correct about the board set being from a sit-down - it
matches the connections on the sit-down schematic exactly.

Some good news... I was able to get the ebay boardset partially
running.  The SSIO board had some damaged components and cut traces -
which I fixed.  I also resoldered all of the board-interconnect
headers.  That got the video to work properly - including the
upside-down image.  The game is now playable..

I still don't have sound and I get the Sound Board Interface Error,
though.  I gather from other posts that this is pretty common.

I guess the next step is to debug the Z80 section of the sound board...

Rich

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Teaganm <teaganm@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Rich,
> The SSIO A082-90913-G000 is correct for a upright Spy Hunter.  The
extra connector is not used.  The G000 has support for more I/O than
some of the other versions.  I snapped a pic of mine here to show the
connections to the edge.
> http://teaganm.cademo.com/images/other/SSIOEdge.jpg
>
> As you said the A080-91657-A000 has panning, so that most likely was
used in the sitdown version.  Both SSIO boards should be
interchangeable, just your cabinet doesn't have the ability to use the
extra sounds of the panning board.
>
> I don't know of any dip switch to invert the video and as far as I
know Spy Hunter has never used with a mirror.  Perhaps the video or CPU
came from a game that used a mirror like Kickman or Kozmik Krooz'r.
>
> As far as troubleshooting I'm not going to be much help.  Other than
the power supplies, I've had good luck keeping my MCRs running.  There
is a MCR FAQ that was made several yours back that makes for good
reading.
> http://users.rcn.com/jenison/mars/faq/MCR_FAQ.txt
>
> Good luck & keep us posted.
>
> Steve
>
>
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