Broken NBA Showtime becomes NFL Blitz

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I know that there's some toggle switch somewhere and security chips you can buy, and I've pondered turning my Showtime into a Showtime/Blitz.

But yesterday it wouldn't boot and gave an error offering me 2 choices: diag.exe or game.exe.

I chose game.exe and VOILA! NFL Blitz is in the house.

so.... a) how do i get showtime back
b) how do i do it without losing blitz?
 
wtf???

man, you mightve stumbled into something cool here...


i wonder if your drive is a showtime/blitz combo drive, and the showtime part for damaged....

if you could make this game boot to some new menu where you could chose what to boot, mabye you could boot a bunch of midway games that run that hardware!!!
 
The early version had both games on it but would only boot to one at a time. Then they had sportstation with both selectable after inserting coins. I think in the early version you selected the game to boot into from the manager screen.

If I'm not mistaken of course.
 
The early version had both games on it but would only boot to one at a time. Then they had sportstation with both selectable after inserting coins. I think in the early version you selected the game to boot into from the manager screen.

If I'm not mistaken of course.

Pretty sure it was a dip or a menu setting.

Your battery probably is dead or your HDD is failing. Upgrade to a higher version.
 
i didn't see any menu settings to allow me to choose, but good point on the battery / hdd.

I guess it's time to figure out what kind of drive they take and if i can just copy the whole old drive onto it.

Do these run some distro of Linux? I like the idea of making my own menu when the game boots...
 
I recently posted 2 sources for the batteries. Got busy with cax and I did not order them. I am going to order some probably on wed.. Don't know if there is any minimum order or not.. If you need one or two, I can add them to my order and then send them to you..

These should work on any of the vegas boards. gauntlet, war, cart fury, showtime, sportstaion, rush 2049, roadburners, ect.. Seems to me the black ones are are dying now.. The yellow ones I have are still good, but will probably fail soon.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=189214&highlight=battery
 
I have the kit needed to upgrade your board to the 3.0 version of Blitz/Showtime . It allows you to pick which game after you coin up instead of dipswitches. Its 60.00 shipped. Includes new boot rom, harddrive and security chip.
 
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