RE: Battlezone rom hack?

Seems like a lot of work - if you replace the old oxidized 24 pin headers
with new ones, you should be good to go. The other issue with the old
headers was that they were not soldered in very well. Be sure to use the
newer square pin version rather than the round pins so you get more surface
contact area. The old ones only touched at one small point on the round
pins and the plating eventually wore off so you were only contacting the
less conductive base metal to boot.

Bill

From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 8:18 AM
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Battlezone rom hack?

What kind of current is flowing between those two boards? Would a standard
ribbon cable with some sort of adapter at each end do the trick? Perhaps
just a separate, higher capacity interconnect for the power.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Bill Karkula <sociableone@gmail.com> wrote:

It's a pain, but replacing the two 24 pin headers and then ALL ROM and PROM
sockets on the AUX and AVG will get the reliability back. Replacing the 24
pin interconnect cable also is a good idea. If you use the Braze kit, you
still need to replace the two Vector ROM sockets as they need to stay
inserted (ones ending in "421" and "422"). The set in my BZ cab has run for
over two years now with no issues.

From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org
[mailto:owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:41 AM
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Battlezone rom hack?

I did the HS hack myself years ago and it's been working great. The board
interconnects, on the other hand, are a different story. I wish there was a
kit to change the connectors to something more reliable.

Jeff

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Saku Taipale <stt@brain.damage.fi> wrote:

I have a HUGE high score in my BZ due to a some glitch in game. The game was
set for public free-play during old-game happening in a museum. When I got
it back there was highest score something like over 10 million.

        Greetings: Saku Taipale, stt@damage.fi

On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, AlW wrote:

The Braze kit has been working great in my machine since it came out. It
does what you ask and saves high scores!

-Al-

On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:11 AM, "David Shoemaker" <davids@oz.net> wrote:

Battlezone has a history of being unstable over the long run. Much of it
related to the roms/sockets. Is there any documented hack out there to
reduce the bank of roms down to a single rom?

Or is the Braze high score kit about the best solution for this problem?

Thanks,
David

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