Rasterlist Archives: RE: Road Runner test mode?

From: David Shoemaker <davids_at_oz.net>
Date: Thu Apr 04 2013 - 02:12:03 EDT

Well it looks like the only difference between those two sets are the e
position rom.

And that is what I burnt, so the rom error in self test is just going to be
lived with.

The only diff between the two e versions is the name string changing from
Road Runner to Desert Gun.

This board is from a dedicated Roar Runner so the owner will want the name
string to match.

Thanks for the help.

David

From: owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Rodger Boots
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 7:12 PM
To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: Re: RASTER: Road Runner test mode?

Oh crap, they changed the ROM names at some point. But the e, f, g, and h
are still in the names so use them for guidance.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Rodger Boots <rlboots2@gmail.com> wrote:

OK let's go deeper into this than I wanted to (mainly because I don't
understand C programming). MAME loads ROM like this:

ROM_START( desertgu )
    ROM_REGION( 0x10000, "maincpu", 0 )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1h", 0x0000, 0x0800, CRC(c0030d7c)
SHA1(4d0a3a59d4f8181c6e30966a6b1d19ba5b29c398) )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1g", 0x0800, 0x0800, CRC(1ddde10b)
SHA1(8fb8e85844a8ec6c0722883013ecdd4eeaeb08c1) )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1f", 0x1000, 0x0800, CRC(808e46f1)
SHA1(1cc4e9b0aa7e9546c133bd40d40ede6f2fbe93ba) )
    ROM_LOAD( "desertgu.e", 0x1800, 0x0800, CRC(ac64dc62)
SHA1(202433dfb174901bd3b91e843d9d697a8333ef9e) )
ROM_END


ROM_START( roadrunm )
    ROM_REGION( 0x10000, "maincpu", 0 )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1h", 0x0000, 0x0800, CRC(c0030d7c)
SHA1(4d0a3a59d4f8181c6e30966a6b1d19ba5b29c398) )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1g", 0x0800, 0x0800, CRC(1ddde10b)
SHA1(8fb8e85844a8ec6c0722883013ecdd4eeaeb08c1) )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1f", 0x1000, 0x0800, CRC(808e46f1)
SHA1(1cc4e9b0aa7e9546c133bd40d40ede6f2fbe93ba) )
    ROM_LOAD( "9316.1e", 0x1800, 0x0800, CRC(db5996a5)
SHA1(cbc784e3ff9c7ad4954f3af8bfd786d3d17d1e0c) )
ROM_END

Quite a while back, MAME consolidated ROM files. So they now end up loading
ROM thusly (thusly?):
    9316.1h from desertgu at address 0000-07FF
    9316.1g from desertgu at address 0800-0FFF

9316.1f from desertgu at address 1000-17FF
9316.1e from roadrunm at address 1800-1FFF
So all you should need is the other 3 files from desertgu I'll save you the
trouble and attach it here.

Good luck, sorry about pointing you the wrong way before.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:02 PM, David Shoemaker <davids@oz.net> wrote:

Found a copy of roadrunr.zip. But can't make heads or tails of it:

Should be 4 2716's. I have no clue what this 82s130 is about. And the
names don't make a whole lot of sense the address map for these boards is
0-1fff.

David

From: owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Rodger Boots
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:26 PM
To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: Re: RASTER: Road Runner test mode?

Oh the joys of MAME ROM handling. Whoever wrote the game in the first place
is in ROADRUNR.ZIP and ROADRUNM.ZIP then changes one ROM to "Midwayize" the
game.

Warm the programmer back up and make the other 2 ROMs, one of them has an
error.

Good luck!

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David Shoemaker <davids@oz.net> wrote:

One rub, now that I have the board working it looks like the rom checksums
are stored in H and replacing E with the road runner image results in a
failure of self test.

So I suspect there is also a road runner version of H.

David

From: owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of teeray
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 12:09 AM

To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: RE: RASTER: Road Runner test mode?

Sounds like it has 8K (1k x 8) roms 2708 or equivalent

The other three roms are in desertgu

ROM Information
ROM Size CRC Region Offset Status Dispose
9316.1h 2048 c0030d7c main 0 good no
9316.1g 2048 1ddde10b main 800 good no
9316.1f 2048 808e46f1 main 1000 good no
9316.1e 2048 db5996a5 main 1800 good no

-----Original Message-----
From: David Shoemaker
Sent: Feb 26, 2013 7:37 PM
To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: RE: RASTER: Road Runner test mode?

And in follow-up. Quarterarcade signature generator doesn't find this game.
So I went to try to track down the roms. I have found a couple of sites
with roadrunm.zip but it only has a single rom in it.

9316.1e which is about 2k in size.

The board I here is using all 8 sockets. It is strapped for what appears to
be 7609's.

Anyone know a good source for the roms on this?

Thanks,

David

From: owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-rasterlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of David Shoemaker
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 7:15 PM
To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: RASTER: Road Runner test mode?

As I am on an 8080 kick I grabbed a Road Runner to test. Mowermans old page
says switches 7,8 off is test mode. Setting them and booting results in a
modified rug which eventually ends. It ends up with a set of vertical bars
and nothing else.

Anyone know how this test mode is supposed to work?

Thanks,

David

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