Hi everyone. I just picked up a Cart Fury this past week and was hoping to get some advice or help here. First off the game was sold to me as "non working" as I was told the hard drive was shot. The two known issues so far are: 1) HDD is shot and needs to be replaced and 2) No battery installed on PCB. With regards to the missing battery, do you know if the game will boot without the battery? I've searched online and read comments that it's just for saving wheel calibration settings etc... but then I also read some posts saying that if the battery is dead then the game will not boot. If that's the case then perhaps the HDD is fine and it's only a battery issue. Knowing my luck I highly doubt that's the case. I ordered a new battery from mouser tonight as it should have one installed regardless.
I was about to order the compact flash replacement version from Ebay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/151080340448); however, I have a few IDE to Compact Flash adapters that I ordered before for my megatouches so I figured I would give it a shot myself first to try and save some cash. Here's what I did. I downloaded the Cart Fury CHD file. I placed it in it's own directory along with chdman. I then hooked up my IDE to CF adapter with a 16GB card to my old PC and typed the following in command prompt:
chdman extracthd -i cartfury.chd -o \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 -f
It took a bit and then completed with no errors. When I plug it into my Cart Fury nothing happens just like when the HDD was connected. Apparently there is a LED light on one of the boards that indicates whether there is HDD activity or not. If LED light is solid then the HDD is probably shot. If it's blinking then that means it's probably okay. I just downloaded the manual so I need to see if I can figure out what each light is on the boards. I am including a link below to a picture of my boards with the game on in case someone is familiar with them all.
Anyways, sorry for the long winded post. If anyone has any knowledge to share it would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Robert
http://digitalorange.ca/arcade/cartfury/IMG_7628.JPG
I was about to order the compact flash replacement version from Ebay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/151080340448); however, I have a few IDE to Compact Flash adapters that I ordered before for my megatouches so I figured I would give it a shot myself first to try and save some cash. Here's what I did. I downloaded the Cart Fury CHD file. I placed it in it's own directory along with chdman. I then hooked up my IDE to CF adapter with a 16GB card to my old PC and typed the following in command prompt:
chdman extracthd -i cartfury.chd -o \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 -f
It took a bit and then completed with no errors. When I plug it into my Cart Fury nothing happens just like when the HDD was connected. Apparently there is a LED light on one of the boards that indicates whether there is HDD activity or not. If LED light is solid then the HDD is probably shot. If it's blinking then that means it's probably okay. I just downloaded the manual so I need to see if I can figure out what each light is on the boards. I am including a link below to a picture of my boards with the game on in case someone is familiar with them all.
Anyways, sorry for the long winded post. If anyone has any knowledge to share it would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Robert
http://digitalorange.ca/arcade/cartfury/IMG_7628.JPG
