Midway Space Encounters - Freeplay Mod ROM Patches

SNESNESCUBE64

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I've been working on a midway space encounters lately so I decided I wanted freeplay since most of my other games are. This seems to be working just fine in both MAME and on my machine and I haven't noticed any side effects. Just make sure the dip settings are 1 coin 1 credit. Attached are some screen shots and the patch files. You can make the patched ROMs using what is out there for MAME and Lunar IPS. I am gonna try to remove the credit text at some point, but I am out of time for it right now. My machine still has issues, so let me know if you encounter any weirdness or need help.

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If you get stuck or need reference photos I may be able to help. Mine is intact and I was able to get it running well. Still need to go through the monitor and install a fresh set of capacitors but it is playable as is. I have a spare MPU but it still has issues that I need to work through. I had picked up that extra boardset and something definitely bad happed to it. Ended up that 12 out of the 16 RAM chips were bad. I expect more bad chips but set it off to the side after I got my original boards running. I used a RED LED bulb for the effects and happy with the results.

Do you have the monitor gel for yours? I'm missing that and hope that someone does a repro someday.
 
Do you have the monitor gel for yours? I'm missing that and hope that someone does a repro someday.
Nope. Thats the only thing I am missing (other than the shroud, which is in Indiana with the person I got this from). The main board and daughterboard are working just fine as of right now. I worked on the sound board today and successfully got back all the sounds working. One thing I noticed is that it plays the player shooting sounds and one other (it's slipping my mind) during the attract mode. I am assuming that is not correct so I will be investigating tomorrow. The monitor chassis was filthy so I washed it and it is currently drying off.
 
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