Re: A whole rom board gone bad?

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
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>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 14:58:32 1999