ThumB
Active member
I set my friend Jay on a mission....
I terrible mission with the odds of succeeding only 50/50.
It all started when I asked him one day..."Hey, can you take a look at a few arcade boards i have that are not working right?" His answer..."sure?"
I proceeded to tell him that I had 3 Gauntlet I pcb's in various states of function and if he could take a look at them..he agreed, not knowing what unexplored mystery and intrigue might lay ahead.
Jay received the 3 boards on a Tuesday and set out to fix em all.
The first one he wired up was a piece of cake...WORKS
The second had a bad crystal if I remember correctly...
The 3rd had what I could only describe as primordial goo from perhaps the La Brea tar pits slowly eating away at solder itself!
Jay proceeded to remove the crystal from that one and put it into the 2nd board... WORKS!
Here's where the story turns ugly.
I personally have both a G1 cabinet and a G2 cabinet. I asked if he could re-burn the eproms of one of the working PCB's to Gauntlet II roms, since they used the same hardware (needing a few extra eproms and different slapstick)
He agreed...BUT BEHOLD!
Once upon a time, I'd stumbled across a website which spoke of burning BOTH G1 and G2 onto (dare I say it) THE SAME BOARD!
I found the link...and sheepishly confronted Jay with the idea.
He took the bait.
The Dreaded Dual Gauntlet HACK---
In the weeks that followed, Jay and I ordered a bunch of new double sized eproms and 2 new eeproms. {on a side note, the eeproms, coming from Hong Kong got there the same day that all the other parts arrived from California} as well as some other parts listed as needed in the instructions.
Jay and I corresponded back and forth on a daily basis and, in a nutshell, most the instructions as to how to perform this hack were WRONG.
Jay was unfazed, unfaltering, relentless and persistent. He would make this work!
For the next few days he made some progress but not success. Huddled in his cold damp basement, he toiled endlessly. Ignoring the cries of his wife and children, "No Jay! You cant go on! You must eat! You must sleep!"... When he did sleep, he was haunted by the bellows of "Wizard needs Food!" and "Valkyrie...is about to die!"... He pressed on.
Then, one night.. (err...last Thursday) he had an epiphany! And just like that, his long journey had ended. He had defeated Death and victoriously typed my name over and over into the interwebs..via google-talk.
So it is my honor....my pleasure....to bring you without further ado, The DUAL Gauntlet Hack in all its glory.
Thank You Jay. You are the master. The conqueror of the conquered. The.... oh fuck it... watch the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg4yZRDkzQ
I terrible mission with the odds of succeeding only 50/50.
It all started when I asked him one day..."Hey, can you take a look at a few arcade boards i have that are not working right?" His answer..."sure?"
I proceeded to tell him that I had 3 Gauntlet I pcb's in various states of function and if he could take a look at them..he agreed, not knowing what unexplored mystery and intrigue might lay ahead.
Jay received the 3 boards on a Tuesday and set out to fix em all.
The first one he wired up was a piece of cake...WORKS
The second had a bad crystal if I remember correctly...
The 3rd had what I could only describe as primordial goo from perhaps the La Brea tar pits slowly eating away at solder itself!
Jay proceeded to remove the crystal from that one and put it into the 2nd board... WORKS!
Here's where the story turns ugly.
I personally have both a G1 cabinet and a G2 cabinet. I asked if he could re-burn the eproms of one of the working PCB's to Gauntlet II roms, since they used the same hardware (needing a few extra eproms and different slapstick)
He agreed...BUT BEHOLD!
Once upon a time, I'd stumbled across a website which spoke of burning BOTH G1 and G2 onto (dare I say it) THE SAME BOARD!
I found the link...and sheepishly confronted Jay with the idea.
He took the bait.
The Dreaded Dual Gauntlet HACK---
In the weeks that followed, Jay and I ordered a bunch of new double sized eproms and 2 new eeproms. {on a side note, the eeproms, coming from Hong Kong got there the same day that all the other parts arrived from California} as well as some other parts listed as needed in the instructions.
Jay and I corresponded back and forth on a daily basis and, in a nutshell, most the instructions as to how to perform this hack were WRONG.
Jay was unfazed, unfaltering, relentless and persistent. He would make this work!
For the next few days he made some progress but not success. Huddled in his cold damp basement, he toiled endlessly. Ignoring the cries of his wife and children, "No Jay! You cant go on! You must eat! You must sleep!"... When he did sleep, he was haunted by the bellows of "Wizard needs Food!" and "Valkyrie...is about to die!"... He pressed on.
Then, one night.. (err...last Thursday) he had an epiphany! And just like that, his long journey had ended. He had defeated Death and victoriously typed my name over and over into the interwebs..via google-talk.
So it is my honor....my pleasure....to bring you without further ado, The DUAL Gauntlet Hack in all its glory.
Thank You Jay. You are the master. The conqueror of the conquered. The.... oh fuck it... watch the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg4yZRDkzQ

