AlucardXP
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Anyone have the roms needed to convert a Vegas 777 board? I have a War board that im going to convert since I dont have a joystick to play it. I have a eprom programmer, I just need the binarys for the roms.
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I did the same thing recently. Note that the War boards I ended up with are the 'Durango' boardset. These will not run Gauntlet Legends, but will run Dark Legacy.
The files for the boot rom and sound rom are in MAME. You'll probably have to buy the security ROM from arcadecup or toplessz.
A friend pointed out to me that the CRC for the sound ROMS on all the Vegas based games have the same checksum. I left the War sound chip in, burned a boot ROM from the MAME file and bought a security chip and everything works as Dark Legacy.
I'm waiting on a different Compactflash card to replace the HD, as the Transcend card I picked up didn't work.
I did the same thing recently. Note that the War boards I ended up with are the 'Durango' boardset. These will not run Gauntlet Legends, but will run Dark Legacy.
The files for the boot rom and sound rom are in MAME. You'll probably have to buy the security ROM from arcadecup or toplessz.
A friend pointed out to me that the CRC for the sound ROMS on all the Vegas based games have the same checksum. I left the War sound chip in, burned a boot ROM from the MAME file and bought a security chip and everything works as Dark Legacy.
I'm waiting on a different Compactflash card to replace the HD, as the Transcend card I picked up didn't work.
Try a 16gb Kingston 133x card. I got one of these to work on GL w/o issues and then expanded the GDL image onto it and it fit. Haven't actually upgraded my GL -> GDL yet to test it though.
DL still needs a security chip. If you look at the Vegas.c file from mame, it shows that there was different versions of the vegas set. I just dont get why you can go from legends to dark legacy but cant go from a dark legacy back to a legends. Doesnt matter too much to me tho. I picked up the board set CHEAP cause it wasnt working...aka the guy who tested it didnt know that it needed -5v. If I had a joystick, id prob play war lol
So my machine started its life as a Legends but was converted to a dark legacy, can I just burn a new boot rom and make a new legends drive and be good to go?
I've got an 8GB Maxell on the way. I'll post my results.
I would assume so. Atari did release an update kit to change from GL > GDL. All that was in the kit was a boot rom, security chip, and a hard drive.
4gb is all you need for Dark Legacy
I don't see how that's possible; the uncompressed image is much larger than that.
If you said 4GB is all you need for GL then I'd agree with you.
I know it's possible because that's what I use, I believe it's also what Chad @ ArcadeCup uses for his as well as his Flash Module versions. Most times, the size of the uncompressed image doesn't necessarily mean that the data runs all the way to the end of it. For example, you can get away with using a 2gb for a Rush the Rock and not have any issues even though the image is larger.
4gb SanDisk Ultra rated @ 30mb/s