wxforecaster
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I figured I'd also try my hand on a non-working DK 2-board set that I had acquired as well.
The symptoms were that it would constantly reset, get a tad further along each time in the boot sequence until after about 4-5 minutes you would finally get to the coin-up/high score screen. However, after DK would take the princess up to the top of the girders and level 1 would start, it would reset back to the coin-up screen. Likewise, during demo mode, as soon as it would start Level 1 it would reset.
Other than this, the colors were good and sounds/music seemed to be functional.
I took the simple approach and removed and cleaned all the PROMs and Z80s. Interesting, it was the small PROMs (like 2E/2F) that were heavily tarnished and not so much the larger 5A/B/C/E.
Anyways, short of a attached screen glitch, the game now works perfectly! I always sucked at DK and on the first coin-up had one of (if not) my best ever games (L4, 100m) to the tune of 80K+. I was stoked
The graphic glitch is that I get a grid of blue/red/tan (or some combination thereof) dots on the screen sporadically during game play. They will come and go.
Evan
The symptoms were that it would constantly reset, get a tad further along each time in the boot sequence until after about 4-5 minutes you would finally get to the coin-up/high score screen. However, after DK would take the princess up to the top of the girders and level 1 would start, it would reset back to the coin-up screen. Likewise, during demo mode, as soon as it would start Level 1 it would reset.
Other than this, the colors were good and sounds/music seemed to be functional.
I took the simple approach and removed and cleaned all the PROMs and Z80s. Interesting, it was the small PROMs (like 2E/2F) that were heavily tarnished and not so much the larger 5A/B/C/E.
Anyways, short of a attached screen glitch, the game now works perfectly! I always sucked at DK and on the first coin-up had one of (if not) my best ever games (L4, 100m) to the tune of 80K+. I was stoked
The graphic glitch is that I get a grid of blue/red/tan (or some combination thereof) dots on the screen sporadically during game play. They will come and go.
Evan