I was able to get my Dragon's Lair back from teh dead after 20 years of owning it. As I finally got it to boot up, I noticed some odd quirks now. I'm playing this off a small 13" monitor sitting on the floor since my brand new K4900 had a cracked neck tube out of the box.
1. I first used the LDV6010A that worked back in 2004 but now has an odd issue of dropping the audio after random intervals. I was just playing the disc to check for laser rot and player functionality when I noticed the audio drops. The video keeps playing, but if I hit the play button, the audio comes back but will drop out randomly. Hitting the play button will bring it back.
2. My two LDV8000 do not want to spin up, not even standalone. I would venture to guess either the servo is shot or the power supplying them are shot. Either way, it's strange and a bummer that all 3 of my players are essentally dead.
3. I did purchase a Dexter back in 2016 during it's initial run and decided that may be my option for getting my DL up and running. I was able to get it to boot my RevC board, but it would not play nice with my original RevA unmodified board. The strange thing about my Dexter, after running it through the main board, the video is ghosted and not clean, like it's doubled/shadowed behind itself. When I powered it up outside of the cabinet to do teh initial setup of the Dexter OS and it played the video footage, it was clean. I remember seeing a post about this but cannot find it to save my life. I know support for this is no longer a thing as I asked Matt already about different things but wanted to see if anyone recalls that post?
4. The next very odd thing is the game itself. It's a RevC running a 4 chip romset. The odd thing about this is that after teh attract mode finishes up, it says "insert 4 coins for x Dirks." These roms aren't even supposed to have 4 coins as an option for the DIPs. I can get it to flip from 3 Dirks to 5 Dirks with the DIPs but nothing changes it from the 4 coins. I suspect maybe gummed up ROMs or something. I'm game to swap the DIP packages but don't think it's that.
5. The next odd thing is with the above and Dexter, the Attract mode is playing the DLE footage with that one eyed pig and plays the drawbridge scene when starting a new game, which it should not be doing. NOTHING I do can get a correct response to pass the stage. Again, suspect bad ROMs.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.