Nintendo Vs. Board Problems

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Earlier today, I was playing with the red tent and one of my versus boards kept on resetting whenever powered on. I ruled out romset/cpu probs as I swapped them out first thing and had no problems on another board. Does anyone have any experience with these boards and offer some solutions to help me out?

Brad
 
I can add credits and it will keep the credits in memory but it gets stuck in a resetting loop with or without credits. Looked at all the capacitors and they visually looked good.
 
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I have experienced this SAME EXACT problem before. The game just keeps resetting itself. This has happened on one board I was testing for someone else. I have no idea what to make of it.

Since the boards are relatively cheap, it's probably not worth repairing. Find a new board. I have tried replacing CPUs, ROMS, PPUs, etc.... the same problem exists. I have no idea what to make of it.
 
My experience with this on Vs. boards...it's usually a bad socket. Those sockets are old and are only rated for so many insertions/exsertions. And the CPU socket is the worse....those big ass legs on the daughter board games...It just "stretches" the socket out and it no longer "bites" the chips reliably.

Edward
 
My experience with this on Vs. boards...it's usually a bad socket. Those sockets are old and are only rated for so many insertions/exsertions. And the CPU socket is the worse....those big ass legs on the daughter board games...It just "stretches" the socket out and it no longer "bites" the chips reliably.

Edward

I never thought of the fact that with all the inserting and removing it probably leaves the sockets a little loose (I feel like I should take that sentence somewhere but my mind just can't pull it off right now). Without looking at my VS. board to verify this is even doable, is it possible that "bending" the pins on the sockets back out would help? Like you used to do on the NES card edge connector to get it working again.
 
Without looking at my VS. board to verify this is even doable, is it possible that "bending" the pins on the sockets back out would help? Like you used to do on the NES card edge connector to get it working again.


You can, but it will only be a temporary fix (if that)....and the risk is high of totally ruining the wiper. Once the spring tension is lost, there's really no getting it back (short of replacing it).

Edward
 
I JUST had this happen to me AGAIN and yesterday with a new board I picked up. I ended up putting a daughter board game in the board and it worked fine. I am guessing one of the ROM sockets was bad. So, this theory makes a lot of sense.
 
I JUST had this happen to me AGAIN and yesterday with a new board I picked up. I ended up putting a daughter board game in the board and it worked fine. I am guessing one of the ROM sockets was bad. So, this theory makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, the legs on those daughterboards are hell on the socket wipers.

Edward
 
Bump!

I am having this same problem, and it happened after I removed my chips to try other games after a few years, and both screens now just flicker black and then reset and flicker to black.

I will purchase some new sockets, solder them in, and go from there.

Thanks for all who responded in this thread. It lets me start some where, when I had no idea where to begin.

-Jeremy
 
In preparation for family coming to town in the next couple days I just went to try out a couple different Vs. boards in my dualsystem. Sure enough, the board that is currently holding my Ice Climber and Excitebike chips keeps resetting. Once I was able to play about 5 minutes of EB but as soon as I stopped and went to test IC I put in a credit, selected the level and it reset with no credits on either screen. Put in another credit on IC and it reset. Went back to EB side and put in a credit and it reset. Fantastic... time to go pop those chips into another board as I want that board up and running this weekend.

(edit) sorry to bump an older post... I just came across it when trying to verify what was going on with my game.
 
In preparation for family coming to town in the next couple days I just went to try out a couple different Vs. boards in my dualsystem. Sure enough, the board that is currently holding my Ice Climber and Excitebike chips keeps resetting. Once I was able to play about 5 minutes of EB but as soon as I stopped and went to test IC I put in a credit, selected the level and it reset with no credits on either screen. Put in another credit on IC and it reset. Went back to EB side and put in a credit and it reset. Fantastic... time to go pop those chips into another board as I want that board up and running this weekend.

(edit) sorry to bump an older post... I just came across it when trying to verify what was going on with my game.

I would investigate shoot IC sockets....especially the CPU and the PPU sockets.

Edward
 
I would investigate shoot IC sockets....especially the CPU and the PPU sockets.

Edward

Yeah, I'm assuming the sockets need to be looked at although I'm not too concerned right now as I do still have 2 working boards. Just hate swapping chips.
 
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