RE: RE: 5 - Three board sets of Star Wars Boards

   FWIW, #4 sounds like it is stuck in its demo or frame advance mode,
where the thumb buttons work as fire buttons, but the triggers advance
the game one frame at a time (or vice-versa). I believe this is a DIP
switch setting that can easily be changed.

   Peace!

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From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Rob Graham
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:10 PM
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: VECTOR: RE: 5 - Three board sets of Star Wars Boards

Here is a breakdown of the problems. I will consider taking offers on
individual boards. Please offer a price and we will add actual shipping
later. Coming from (T1Y 7H8) might be expensive to some areas. If there
is no interest to purchase but you know how to fix these I would be
grateful for information regarding that.

These were tested by a member local to me. Thanks AS

On all I swapped in a set of proms and a working AVG chip. So results
below are with the new prom set and AVG chip. This does not mean they
needed it, but I tried anyways.. most did the same thing even after swap
as they did before. Most of the old tape on the boards says to try
swapping out a prom, then its written it wasn't that prom.. Almost all
of the boardsets had an issue with the background objects like stars
and enemies although the words, attract, x-wing were rendered fine which
is why I swapped in the proms and probably why previous owner tried as
well although it seems he was always trying to swap the same one on all
boards. I believe all that could get into test mode had matrix error
B0000. One had a bad vram but did not make a dif when new was swapped in
so probably a ls244 or 245 or whatever communicates to the ram. Only one
out of the 4 semi-working had a garbled test mode screen... I believe it
was the 5th one.

1) not working. Swapped in a good processor but nothing. Might be clock
circuit as not watchdogging, but I don't have a scope to see.

2) works completely as far as I can tell but has loud white noise sound
all the time. The refresh rate also seems very slow making the screen
flicker...

but game speed seems fine.. very odd. This one probably a fairly easy
fix.

3) Game seems to work completely but starfield and enemies are
compressed into a single horizontal line in center of the screen. One of
the sets I believe had a bad prom, and a bad avg for sure.. this might
have been the one. I do not believe it functioned prior to the swap very
well.. can't remember.... This one also probably a pretty easy fix.

4) green text comes up in attract mode. It seems to sit on that screen..

stars not moving. You can coin up with no sound. When you hit a trigger,
you hear the coin up voices and it advances to the level choice screen.
Usually it sits there and when you bring crosshairs over deathstar they
turn yellow so it is registering position.. hitting fire does nothing
for the most part, but I got it to go past that screen once.. no enemies
or stars.. death star flickers on the right of screen.. cannot remember
if it played the music or not..unplayable.

5) Text in attract comes up, but letters are flying all over like the
stars are letters instead of stars.. very odd.. after the first green
text nothing on screen but very large letters flying out from center.

Rob

From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Rob Graham
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 2:41 PM
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: VECTOR: 5 - Three board sets of Star Wars Boards

1 is a dead brick and the other 4 work with issues. 1 cage with untested
power brick on it. I don't know much about these but know they aren't
working and was told this is the best place to list them. I will sell
all 5 sets together for $750 plus actual shipping which seems like it is
going to be around $200. If you can arrange shipping cheaper than that
is great. They are in Canada so keep that in mind. Email
Gobsgraham@shaw.ca if you want a run-down of the what was tested on
them.

Thanks

Rob

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