OK...so my Race Drivin' "compact" is sitting in the corner of my small game room ... the far corner ... It fits there nicely.
I was playing it last night when I bust out a decent score... and it comes time to drop a my name in and...
FLASH!
The screen flashes, resets, and the control calibration screen comes on.
HUH? It's never done that. So I turn off the machine and pop her back on... up comes the screen as normal... but I notice it says there are 0 CREDITS... not FREEPLAY as normal. I also notice that once the game goes through it's beginning attract sequence and goes to the "in car" view, it drives under the starting sign, turns the left corner (super stunt track) and ...
FLASH!
It resets.
SHIT! I go in to the settings and re-set everything (free-play, a bunch of settings that were changed (somehow), etc). I exit and go back to the game to notice the FREEPLAY setting didn't take... it still said 0 CREDITS... back in to the settings I go... I re-set everything then re-check and... none of the settings "took".
Damnit... now I knew I needed to pull the damn cab out to take a look. Unfortunately moving this cab requires me to move 2 other cabs. SO I begin... I move the two cabs out the of way, move the heavy as a mo-fo Race Drivin' across the room to the doorway to get her in to the main garage to do some work... only to discover... the damn thing is about 1/4" too tall to get through the doorway. >ARGH!<
So I pull the cab back out of the doorway, turn the bitch around, maneuver to the other side of the cab... pull it toward the doorway and lean that bitch back to get the top under the doorway... about this time remembering the damn monitor is up top and how much of a top-heavy beast of a cab this bitch is...
Well, I managed to man-handle the damn thing in to the big side... maneuver it to a spot where I can work on it. I figure I better fire her up first to make sure what was happening was still happening so I didn't think I 'fixed' anything by doing whatever I was about to do in the back.
Sure as shit... the game works... fine... nothing wrong...
...but the high scores are all jacked... with some crazy characters in some places... so SOMETHING went wrong ... but what? I have no idea.
There is no loose connections... nothing to "visually" scream "HEY... HERE'S THE PROBLEM"... nothing.
>sigh<
I hate when that happens.
I just checked and it's still working fine...I think I'm going to situate her next to the Rush the Rock in the big room... screw moving that beast back to the far corner.
I was playing it last night when I bust out a decent score... and it comes time to drop a my name in and...
FLASH!
The screen flashes, resets, and the control calibration screen comes on.
HUH? It's never done that. So I turn off the machine and pop her back on... up comes the screen as normal... but I notice it says there are 0 CREDITS... not FREEPLAY as normal. I also notice that once the game goes through it's beginning attract sequence and goes to the "in car" view, it drives under the starting sign, turns the left corner (super stunt track) and ...
FLASH!
It resets.
SHIT! I go in to the settings and re-set everything (free-play, a bunch of settings that were changed (somehow), etc). I exit and go back to the game to notice the FREEPLAY setting didn't take... it still said 0 CREDITS... back in to the settings I go... I re-set everything then re-check and... none of the settings "took".
Damnit... now I knew I needed to pull the damn cab out to take a look. Unfortunately moving this cab requires me to move 2 other cabs. SO I begin... I move the two cabs out the of way, move the heavy as a mo-fo Race Drivin' across the room to the doorway to get her in to the main garage to do some work... only to discover... the damn thing is about 1/4" too tall to get through the doorway. >ARGH!<
So I pull the cab back out of the doorway, turn the bitch around, maneuver to the other side of the cab... pull it toward the doorway and lean that bitch back to get the top under the doorway... about this time remembering the damn monitor is up top and how much of a top-heavy beast of a cab this bitch is...
Well, I managed to man-handle the damn thing in to the big side... maneuver it to a spot where I can work on it. I figure I better fire her up first to make sure what was happening was still happening so I didn't think I 'fixed' anything by doing whatever I was about to do in the back.
Sure as shit... the game works... fine... nothing wrong...
...but the high scores are all jacked... with some crazy characters in some places... so SOMETHING went wrong ... but what? I have no idea.
There is no loose connections... nothing to "visually" scream "HEY... HERE'S THE PROBLEM"... nothing.
>sigh<
I hate when that happens.
I just checked and it's still working fine...I think I'm going to situate her next to the Rush the Rock in the big room... screw moving that beast back to the far corner.

