Tom,
I was searching the threads and this sounds like a similar problem, might be the solution as well.
06-04-2009, 03:49 AM
nekromanceru New Member Join Date: May 2009Posts: 2
Legends to Dark Legacy problem A friend finally convinced me that I can't live without an arcade game so with some help we picked up a Gauntlet Legends. After having it for about a month I wanted to upgrade to a Dark Legacy and went about buying the parts I needed (a hard drive, and 2 chips from Happ).After installing all the new parts and trying to boot, the game won't start up (I can hear everything turn on but the monitor stays black). In addition, there is an LED on one of the boards that displays numbers as it is booting. When I have the Legends parts in it, the LED will count up to 6 or so and work correctly but the Dark Legacy goes to 2 and then it seems to cycle an error code.When replacing parts one at a time from Legends to Legacy it seems that the board is not recognizing the security chip. Does anyone have any suggestions about fixing this? Do you think I got a bad chip from Happ? Help, I must free the world from the evil clutches of Skorn!
nekromanceru New Member Join Date: May 2009Posts: 2
Quote:Originally Posted by Cableman So you're saying that if you remove the upgrade parts (hard drive, chips) and put the game back like it was, it works correctly?
Yes, putting all the original parts back in the machine make it work properly as a Gauntlet Legends.Quote:Originally Posted by IJTFCinder Did you change said security chip? They both run on Vegas hardware, but one's a Midway game and the other an Atari game, the security chips are most likely different.
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are asking but when I put the PIC chip from HAPP (security chip) in the board, the game doesn't recognize it and won't complete the boot process. After reading your post I looked at my game and it is branded ATARI and not Midway so maybe that is it?I dunno, I got nothing.
06-05-2009, 04:14 PM
IJTFCinder Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007Location: Ontario, CanadaPosts: 1,667
Quote:Originally Posted by teckkev Either bad security chip or wrong version item(s). Like HD different version than roms or different version than security chip. Far as I know.. Vegas is Vegas. I know 1 uses Obsidian video card.. what video card does the other one use?Kevin
Both use 3DFX Banshee video hardware.......(Well it's the exact same hardware, my question was regarding the security)Yes both are Vegas, but Legends is an Atari game and Dark Legacy is Midway. I would hope Happ sent you the right stuff, but can they send the drive with the data on it already? ie; did they?And there are 2 different versions of Legends, and 2 different versions of Dark Legacy. The actual ROMs do not differ between versions with Dark Legacy, only Hard Drive data. (The ROMs are different between versions of Legends though, but no changes to the drive).Bad roms, or something wrong with the data on the hard drive. Maybe dump the drive and compare it with the CHD(s) for MAME? __________________Items for sale ChaseTheChuckWagon Vendazzle Last edited by IJTFCinder; 06-05-2009 at 04:33 PM.
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