And to complete the vector sound board trifecta...
The Universal Universal Sound board tester!
(yes, that was my cat meowing, not a new sound on the universal sound board).
A few neat things I learned working on this...
The boards are loaded with "code", which I understand to be mostly...
It wouldn't be too hard to add. I'm speculating that they may have removed it in favor of reporting the small bonus / large bonus sounds that occur at the end of the rounds. Fitting it back in, spacing it out, and leaving enough gap before Spock announces the next level might have been another...
My Zookeeper is my problem child. When it works, it's great, but it often displays graphics corruption and then completely messed up video (as if the video sync has gone out). Sometimes a reboot or memory reset will fix it. That's the worst part; I'll apply a "fix" (change out a device, reseat a...
Sega G80 Speech boards use a similar setup of port messages, yet each speech board seems to require slightly different messaging to prepare the speech board.
After analyzing the port messages in MAME, I was able to put together a testing tool for speech boards as well.
Here's a demo of testing...
I believe it's just mirrored cardstock. Wish I could remember where I bought it from. Check your local craft store or get some from online but make sure the dimensions are long enough.
The other PCB would have the sprites color reversed.
I was thinking they'd both just have discs like the main player, since having those other options seems like cheating. However, that might get boring. The game can support two spinning chasers at a time, so maybe randomly spawn a spinner vs...
I've thought of this project for some time (head-to-head Discs of Tron). Even made up a "Discs of Sark" marquee for the other cabinet.
I think the existing MCR hardware could support this, with a master/slave setup; one PCB to take all the inputs and maintain the state, the other PCB would have...
I will say I think it's the board set. I noticed that when running the board set through an OSSC the image brightens/dims during this sequence. While I don't seen any brightness/dimming here, seems something in the signal weakens/strengthens during this sequence, and just shows up as...
A lot of these are considered "islands" and not cocktails. Eliminator does have a legit 2-player cocktail, but is not better because it uses Japanese buttons which aren't great.
Space Duel, Warlords are better play wise.
I think the fact he said "the resistors" was implying the resistors he was referring to. If not, he should have said "instead of piggy backing [different recommended resistors]...". Or, put the correct values on the drawing of the piggybacked resistors. There's no other reference to other...
Working on some Sega stuff today, I came across an old memo from Aladdin's Castle for Space Fury / G08 monitor issues in my repair documentation.
This one in particular:
better scan here...