HELP! linking california speed

monster kong

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i have 2 california speed i want to link. i connect the link cable and they wont link. when link cable attahced, one machine comes on and plays alone, and the other just resets over and over on the bootup screen when link cable is attahced.

both machines work fine by themselves when not linked.

both games on their boot screens say eprom 102 and rev 5a.

what else is needed?
 
first, I'd verify the link cable is a crossover cable and that it's good. (unless you are using a hub/Switch to connect them)

2nd, there were 2 versions as far as I know, I run the latest v2.1a (shows on the boot screen) in both of my machines... Make sure this matches. The older version is like 1bxxx or something like that. The older version does not have the hidden cars at the beginning of the race when you are at the car select screen and you push the radio button.

The rebooting might indicate either a short in the cable or a problem with the network board in the one that has a problem.. I'd definitely look at the cable first. If that's good and your versions are the same, I'd swap the network boards to see if the problem migrated to the other machine.
 
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when you say there are 2 versions? how do you match them (how to change versions)? is it with the hard drives?

yes the link cable came with the machine its stock. i have 2 of them (one was in each game). they both do teh saem thing.
 
Yes, its a hard drive upgrade (or even better, get the image on a compact flash card with an IDE to flash adapter ... Boots faster and no worries about a hard drive crashing later on).

If your versions are mismatched, I've been told they won't link. If you have 2 older versions, they should still link up.

EDIT: the older version is 1.0r7. The version is listed in the very first line when you boot up the machine IIRC. Also, I'd try plugging the cable into the machine that's rebooting but dont plug the other end in. If it continues to reboot you likely have a short on that ethernet board.

MrSinister made a few flashdrive/adapter combos for me at a very reasonable price and they work like a charm. If interested, fire him a pm
 
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