Dance Dance Revolution troubleshooting

driph

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Okay, I'm officially confused.

Picked up a DDR Solo 2000 machine, runs fine with the Solo mix (these don't require a flash card).

Bought a Konami flash card that was working in the previous owner's machine. When I try to install a new mix, the onboard process goes just fine, but halfway through the pccard install it fails with an ERROR 153 (PCCARD BAD).

Replaced the Konami flash card. Same error.

Replaced the GX700 motherboard. Same error!

As an experiment, I flipped DIP4 and rebooted.

The game (currently 3rd mix Korea ver2) boots up, and will play if you start immediately.

HOWEVER, if you it sit and start the attract mode, it crashes 10-15 seconds into the sequence and reboots. I'm guessing that the majority of the data that failed to write to the flashcard was the video file in the attract mode, which is causing the crash.

I really expected the shotgun approach of swapping both the 700 and the flashcard to work, but the continued ERROR 153 is baffling.

Any ideas?
 
when you said replacing gx700, do you replace whole motherboard with digital sound or i/o board, or just the motherboard?

and how do you install another game on solo 2000? using install cartridge?
 
when you said replacing gx700, do you replace whole motherboard with digital sound or i/o board, or just the motherboard?

and how do you install another game on solo 2000? using install cartridge?


Just the mainboard (the GX700 itself). Still using the original cdrom and IO board that mounts on top of it.

I'm gonna test voltage this weekend and make sure that's okay just to rule it out, but I have no idea if there's a way to tweak the voltage if it happens to be low, the Solo doesnt have a standard switching power supply.

Installation on a Solo is basically the same as on any other DDR game. You need the install disks, security cart (or hacked discs that don't require the cart), and a 32mb PCMCIA flash card. Once you've got those you can add any mix you'd like (although you need to rearrange some of the jamma wiring for the solo pad to work correctly with doubles mixes).
 
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