Out Run: Road is Absent! No Vibration Either. Pics. Please Advise

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Out Run: Road is Absent! No Vibration Either. Pics. Please Advise

Hey all. I have a fairly nice condition Out Run that I recently acquired. Got it with a poor monitor, switched in a different one and was then able to notice that the road does not show up at all. The game does play. As far as I can tell, it looks like everything else shows up. Main thing is the road is completely 100% absent, which of course makes the game basically useless. I did notice on the screen when you change radio stations the car's dash is not gray like it is supposed to be, like the gray is missing. Not sure, but maybe gray is missing in other places too. Below are some images. The vibration motor is not working as well but my priority is getting the road working. Is it a bad chip? If so, any idea which one? Anyone have spare chips/board willing to sell? There are a couple yellow wires that are not connected by the harness either. Thanks in advance for help!

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First things first:
1) Have you checked the voltage level (5V) on the game PCB?
2) Have you read the manual and tried test mode?
3) Have you looked at the connector with the loose wires near it to see if you can tell what pin position(s) they once connected to? Unplug the connector if necessary.
 
Whoa - special desert coarse edition!

But seriously, I would think it's a chip issue.
How long have you had it? Is it new to you? I would pull all of the socketed chips, clean and replace.

The cut wires, could be nothing, just not needed and the last owner cut them.
Of course check for the right voltage.

Steve
 
Thanks for the replies gentlemen. I have not checked the voltage on the board and am not really sure of the method how to do that. Today I removed the socket-ed chips and cleaned them but that did not make a difference. I have only had it a couple of weeks, bought it with a bad monitor and could not tell the road was not there until after I swapped in an ok monitor.

Spoke with a gentleman at Eldorado and he said they no longer have any nor can repair them due to how they are made. Couple options I guess then... sell as is, buy a working board (expensive from what I've seen) or turn it into a MAME classic driver (Would hate to do that).
 
I'm in favor of putting in a PC instead of tracking down and spending big dollars on a working board set. That's what I am doing with my Out Run. Properly done it can look nice.

Face it, most Out Runs will eventually one day be faced with this only solution to keep them going.

Best of luck with whatever you decide.
 
Lol... Saw your ad on CL today... Now I see your post....

I would agree this is probably a chip issue somewhere. Check your voltages too, but my gut says chips. You might be able to find someone willing to burn a new set of ROMs for you here and give that a try. I'd also do a quick visual inspection of the board, look for any blown/burned/etc components, it's quick and easy to do and I have actually fixed boards like that.
 
I did not see anything on the boards that looked toasted/fried/loose. And yep... I already listed it on CL. If I were to keep it, I would probably go the MAME driver route but I just do not really want to spend all that time on it right now so it's up for sale!
 
...but has anyone been successful in running MAME in an Out Run (or Afterburner) and also getting the shaker motor to work? Is MAME even capable of relaying that signal?
 
Sega games are really bad about glitching up and having things dissapear. Hang On does it all the time too, a lot of their games were designed pretty complex so it makes more things that can go wrong. Fun game though.
 
...but has anyone been successful in running MAME in an Out Run (or Afterburner) and also getting the shaker motor to work? Is MAME even capable of relaying that signal?

There is a new version of mame that supports the shaker motor. I have an Out Run cab I'm planning on Maming and plan on reporting my updates here so everyone that needs to this can reference to it.
 
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