skramarck
Member
Found a pseudo functioning Sinistar at a great price today. Symptoms were that it powered up with ROM errors, but the ship was unresponsive until it warmed up. After it warmed up, the ship would work for a moment and then fly off into outerspace.
Upon bringing home and inspecting, I've noticed that the ROM error code switched every time it was powered on. Furthermore, by having someone manipulate the 40 pin ribbon cable, the game would reset and then when it came back, the ship was fine. I've determined that I will replace the 40 pin and see if that permanently fixes the ROM and ship issues.
My question for the board is that while I am playing the game (once the ribbon cable is manipulated), Sinistar's speech is a little jacked up. He will say things like Run, live instead of Run,coward and will randomly scream in the middle of sentences, etc. He isn't speaking as the Sinigod intended. Could this be related to the ribbon cable to the ROM board or am I possibly looking at two separate issues.
All in all, I am happy to get a pretty nice looking Sinistar that almost works for the price that I did....just trying to get it across the finish line to fully functioning status.
Steve
Upon bringing home and inspecting, I've noticed that the ROM error code switched every time it was powered on. Furthermore, by having someone manipulate the 40 pin ribbon cable, the game would reset and then when it came back, the ship was fine. I've determined that I will replace the 40 pin and see if that permanently fixes the ROM and ship issues.
My question for the board is that while I am playing the game (once the ribbon cable is manipulated), Sinistar's speech is a little jacked up. He will say things like Run, live instead of Run,coward and will randomly scream in the middle of sentences, etc. He isn't speaking as the Sinigod intended. Could this be related to the ribbon cable to the ROM board or am I possibly looking at two separate issues.
All in all, I am happy to get a pretty nice looking Sinistar that almost works for the price that I did....just trying to get it across the finish line to fully functioning status.
Steve

