Crazy Taxi boot issue (Could be a bootleg?)

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I just got my first driving game setup, a Crazy Taxi upright. I'm stoked to have this due to space issues in my house, it seems like the perfect cabinet!

It came without the Naomi motherboard (it wasn't working) but did come with the game board. I popped in a working motherboard with the game in it, and the system boots to the normal NAOMI screen, then "Loading Crazy Taxi (31k)" and then a black screen. No amount of waiting with a black screen will get it to start.
 
channel medic posted issue with these there appears a common problem with the ic buffer chips on the carts.
 
channel medic posted issue with these there appears a common problem with the ic buffer chips on the carts.

yeah they're incredibly stupid. makes me wonder how the average dickhead can run these, you can't drive the +5 above 5.10V without damaging boards in them.

I got a machine that's seriously gone through like 3 DIMM boards and I've been watching voltages on it for a few years now. sucks.
 
Just to follow up on this for historical purposes;

- There are no Naomi cart bootlegs just yet (According to Ken, and I believe him.)

- The issue with this cart was some very inconspicuous corrosion due to a spilled coke.

- Ken is the man, and if you have faulty Sega gear, you should send it to him, he rocks!
 
don't forget the VF4 boards that Sega used for some other use and just pulled the eeprom, and by putting it back on makes it a full VF4 Evo? cart.
 
:D STOKED!!

Ken rocks!

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and if that wasn't it, it was most likely the other problem i mentioned earlier, that channelmedic mentioned like a month ago :p
 
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