mysterious problem with capcom 18 in 1 board not working

scar215

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mysterious problem with capcom 18 in 1 board not working

I recently ordered a capcom 18 in 1 board from china, and when I plugged it in to my streetfighter cab, (which is currently running alpha 3 without problems in a store environment), it didnt work.

Let me explain how the capcom 18-1 board is supposed to work. The board allows you to choose from 18 games. It starts on default on the first game, and you can bring up the menu for all 18 by holding down Player1 button for 3 seconds. You can then activate that selection by dropping a quarter. It then loads the game with that credit still available, and you can play as normal.

My streetfighter game had two problems. First, I had to hold down the Player1 button for about 15 seconds before it would register and bring up the 18 game menu. Second it wouldnt register coin drops at all. Please note that both the button and the coin drop work normally for SFA3 customers every day.

So at that point I figured I got burned and just put the multi-board away. Later i was fixing a monitor problem with a punisher cabinet (with working punisher pcb installed), and decided to plug the 18-1 in there. It worked perfectly.

So here's the question- what is the difference between the streetfighter jamma and the punisher jamma that would make the punisher setup work and the SFA3 setup fail even though the 18-1 is DESIGNED for a 2 player 6 button jamma setup?

Im asking also because I would like to avoid pulling both games out and tracing the wires in the jamma adapters because they are both in a narrow and active store location, not in my garage. It would be nice to know exactly what i have to do before i pull the games out.

Any help or insight would be appreciated greatly.
 
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