Arkanoid - Bad Hardware, odd screen, sometimes works....

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Arkanoid - Bad Hardware, odd screen, sometimes works....

Haven't posted since 09 and that was an introduction of me buying this machine for my future home, well I bought a home and I have 3 machines and its only been one year being here.......

This machine ran very good up until last year, started getting the goofy pixel screen and had to almost let it warm up ( Just a term I'm using ) and then it would say BAD HARDWARE. Few more re-sets it would count down and then play.

Now its just doing it more and resetting it is not the ideal way, I do service for a living so I'm pretty good with a meter, I just have to get used to whats 12v and +5 -5 so on so forth...

As you can see there is another game to the right, that is Gunforce I scored it for $25bucks last week :) on that one I have adjusted the color and balancing out the screen, played with the sound and fine tunned the +5v and 12v to near exact. I just did all that last night, this would be my 1st time physically working on a machine. I did quite a bit of reading and youtube vids to do what I did..

But that is about it for now, this is where I'm lost, Bad Hardware ?

I will take a stab at it being the main board * Pictured * having something wrong with it, I did carefully remove it and look for burns or solder missing, board actually LOOKS clean visually..

The only thing I personally did on the Arkanoid is remove the 22-ish pin blow in it wipe all the little terminals on the board with a soft cloth, also switched the #6 dip switch to see the test menu.

I always provide a bunch of pictures, hope this helps

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You migh just slap an new z80 chip in there, it goes in the bottom socket in the way that your board is mounted. It is in a socket and is easy enough to get a new one from here....

http://www.twistywristarcade.com/processors-40-pin-ics/104-z80-cpu.html

Worth a shot.


Now these chips or pretty much anything on an arcade board is new to me, is there a FAQ about all of these parts and what the hell they do :) ?

I find these arcade machines unreal in there complexity and wiring, very cool stuff !!!

* Edit * I'm blind great thread at the top of the forum....

Thank you for your help !

So my board is a bootleg, were bootleg boards made even in the years the REAL board was out ? or was it years after they were originally made ?
 
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