Moon Patrol High Score Save Kit Trouble

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You have to remove the audio board to install the kit, correct? Then you pull the Z80 and put it in the daughterboard. Then you should pull the 4 ROMs, 0-3, correct? I fired mine up, and got colored blocks. Hit p 1 & 2 together, it cleared up. Started a game, played a while, then tried to kill myself to get to the HSS. Problem: I had unlimited guys and the game wouldn't end. After the 9th restart I shut the game off. What's up with that? Anyone else have this issue?
 
It played fine before I installed the kit and I didn't change any dips after installing it. Not sure why it would be in demo mode now.
 
Well I changed the dips to free play and now I get 3 vehicles per credit, not sure how, but it works. It wasn't on demo mode, or at least the dip wasn't set to demo. Now HSS works, attract mode works, game mode works. Is my soundboard supposed to be right on top of the HSS daughtercard though? They are touching and I can't push that corner of the soundboard all the way down on the nylon post.
 
You have to remove the audio board to install the kit, correct? Then you pull the Z80 and put it in the daughterboard. Then you should pull the 4 ROMs, 0-3, correct? I fired mine up, and got colored blocks. Hit p 1 & 2 together, it cleared up. Started a game, played a while, then tried to kill myself to get to the HSS. Problem: I had unlimited guys and the game wouldn't end. After the 9th restart I shut the game off. What's up with that? Anyone else have this issue?

So, I finally got my Moon Patrol working, and I have an issue where I am getting colored blocks across all the scores as well. May I ask where you saw to hit P1 and P2 together? I'm afraid there is a Moon Patrol kit thread I missed, and can't find with search.

I tried holding them both down, but that didn't do anything different for me.
 
If you get colored blocks where the level is displayed then you need to clear the High Score Table (Hold Down P1+P2 start while the HST is displayed during attract mode. Note, if the game is in free play mode it will start so it has to be in coin mode)

If you see 5 orange wavey l block accross all the columns then it means your +5 is too low and need to revuild your power supply.

Hope this helps
 
It did help - thanks, man. +5 was at 4.6. Nnnnnghhh. I thought I checked that when I put the cab together, but clearly I did not. I turned the screw up on the power supply, turned it on, took a measurement... and everything was cool, the colored blocks were gone. ACES. I wasn't alive for the moon landing, so this IS my own personal moon landing.
 
Cool, glad it worked out.

It did help - thanks, man. +5 was at 4.6. Nnnnnghhh. I thought I checked that when I put the cab together, but clearly I did not. I turned the screw up on the power supply, turned it on, took a measurement... and everything was cool, the colored blocks were gone. ACES. I wasn't alive for the moon landing, so this IS my own personal moon landing.
 
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