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I have a Namco Flamin Finger that I have repaired for a local "Barcade". Various problems were resolved, however the SmartMedia card is causing us some issues. The memory test will report "MEMORY TEST SMC FAIL". The game actually"works" but will not retain settings once the machine is power cycled. And the attract mode volume will wake the dead every morning! The location is not using tickets and the "Ticket Emulation" setting defaults to needing tickets. This needs to be changed every day to avoid an error after the first game of the day is played. So right now various settings need to be restored every morning. The location screws this up every other day, so ideally I would like to get a working SmartMedia card.
Of course, I could add a volume control pot and get them a ticket emulator and just run with the default settings every morning. But this card is going to fail one day and then it really is game over.
I have contacted Bandai Namco and this was their reply:

Hello,

The memory card is a part that we don't sell. You can send the main board to us for repair and return.

Thank you.

The customer might have to do this, but I know Namco. This will be hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And, some might claim it's a bullet one has to bite. But I'd thought I'd reach out to the forums on behalf of my customer first.

I have tried pulling data from this card using chdman and dd on my linux rig. I CAN successfully read and restore a known good SmartMedia card using either method, but the Namco card is corrupt and gives me i/o and read errors.
So I don't know if there is a chd image or an xx.img.gz file of this card floating around. I can use those, although I'd rather get actual physical media and I can archive it for later use and posterity.

Any Flamin Finger SmartMedia cards out there?
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