RE: Battlezone rom hack?

I second this suggestion. Adding adapters just adds more connections that can fail. You are far better off to replace
the headers (with square pins) and then replace the terminals inside the harness connector housings with new trifurcon
(3 points of contact) type. There's not tons of current going through them but if you are greatly concerned with long
term reliability, install all gold plated header pins and terminals and it'll last until the next ice age.

Bill Boucher
http://www.biltronix.com

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> 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.
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> Bill
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Bill Karkula <sociableone@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Jeff
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Saku Taipale <stt@brain.damage.fi> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Greetings: Saku Taipale, stt@damage.fi
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> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, AlW wrote:
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> The Braze kit has been working great in my machine since it came out. It
> does what you ask and saves high scores!
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> -Al-
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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:11 AM, "David Shoemaker" <davids@oz.net> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Or is the Braze high score kit about the best solution for this problem?
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> Thanks,
> David
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