debaser138
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I've got a Black Widow board that has been giving me some problems for awhile now and I'm finally getting around to working on it. The game board works but the high score board shows the top three scores as blank. When I go into test mode I get an error saying that the EAROM is bad along with the ROM at K/L1 (error shows E 8). I had a friends Black Widow board recently and swapped the 10 ROMs from his board to mine and it then worked fine. My high scores were showing up (I kept my EAROM on the board) and no more errors in test mode.
So today I dug up my Pocket Programmer and burned a new ROM for K/L1 (105) and it's still showing as bad in self test even tho it verifies fine with ROMident. Awhile back I had burned a new ROM for L7. That ROM is a 2716 (whereas all the others are 2532's). The only blank 2716's I have are TMS2716. If I recall correctly these odd chips require 3 different voltages. I'm thinking the Pocket Programmer 2 cannot burn these properly without an adapter.
If I do a dump of the TMS2716 I burned for L7 and verify it with ROMident, it verifies fine. I'm wondering tho if the chip was not programmed correctly (as it requires 3 voltages) and this is throwing off the self test and causing the game to not read the EAROM.
Any ideas?
So today I dug up my Pocket Programmer and burned a new ROM for K/L1 (105) and it's still showing as bad in self test even tho it verifies fine with ROMident. Awhile back I had burned a new ROM for L7. That ROM is a 2716 (whereas all the others are 2532's). The only blank 2716's I have are TMS2716. If I recall correctly these odd chips require 3 different voltages. I'm thinking the Pocket Programmer 2 cannot burn these properly without an adapter.
If I do a dump of the TMS2716 I burned for L7 and verify it with ROMident, it verifies fine. I'm wondering tho if the chip was not programmed correctly (as it requires 3 voltages) and this is throwing off the self test and causing the game to not read the EAROM.
Any ideas?
