finch10101
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I just picked up this galaga today for 60 bucks at a yard sale.
Very excited.
At first nothing powered on...they had misplaced a wire.
Then it got to occasional ram errors then freeze, sometimes RAM OK...freeze.
I took the boards out and pulled cleaned and replaced all on the rom board and most on the ram board. Some on the ram board had been "fixed" with leg extensions and I didnt want to touch them as it seemed that it was passing the ram test most of the time.
Anyway now it plays! kinda..
Except the screen looks like this...
Its sort of doubling itself along unseen vertical columns. At the start of the game you have what looks like 2 ships but its not really.
oh and btw i have 5.2 on the board
Any ideas on my next move(s)?
Very excited.
At first nothing powered on...they had misplaced a wire.
Then it got to occasional ram errors then freeze, sometimes RAM OK...freeze.
I took the boards out and pulled cleaned and replaced all on the rom board and most on the ram board. Some on the ram board had been "fixed" with leg extensions and I didnt want to touch them as it seemed that it was passing the ram test most of the time.
Anyway now it plays! kinda..
Except the screen looks like this...
Its sort of doubling itself along unseen vertical columns. At the start of the game you have what looks like 2 ships but its not really.
oh and btw i have 5.2 on the board
Any ideas on my next move(s)?