Silent Scope 2 Timekeeper help!!

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I picked up a gutted Silent scope cab and i have managed to piece it back together.
with the exceptions i still have no monitor was planing to try and buying a chassis and using tube from old tv or lcd? anybody know what monitor/size came in it? that and i got SS2 boards. other then that i be leave i have everything. I bought a new m48t58y-70pc1 timekeeper chip and cheap ebay TL866 mini pro universal programmer. I fitted the board with socket and downloaded the SS2 Rom. Inside the zip is a file named m48t58y-70pc1.
so i am just guessing i just have to flash the chip with that file? however the software i got with the programmer i can not find the chip listed? any ideas would be super duper. thx
 
GQ-4x4 works for it.
I'm working on my SS2 right now and just flashed the time keeper
 
I am about to do this too. I've got an older GQ-4x and a Top-3000. Had luck with JP3 recently so will see if we can add another one to the win column.

There are so many threads about the Konami RTC's. It would be nice if someone would just knock out the definitive guide (yeah, I know, and the person for that job is NOT me.)
 
I am about to do this too. I've got an older GQ-4x and a Top-3000. Had luck with JP3 recently so will see if we can add another one to the win column.

There are so many threads about the Konami RTC's. It would be nice if someone would just knock out the definitive guide (yeah, I know, and the person for that job is NOT me.)
I have initial plans to make a complete guide but I don't have all the info put together and am working on other arcade related projects at the moment. One fact I can tell you are the game region is determined by the timekeeper's contents. Silent Scope 2 is a bit of an odd case because of an additional checksum and the timekeeper's contents have to match the network board's serial eeprom.

The Viper games check additional data and checksums on the timekeeper making them much harder to hand build as opposed to their earlier games.
 
As mentioned you have to match country or region file to the upper pcb. Most of the ones around are UA version. If you have something different, problems problems. Better to change it back to SS1 by ROM and program RTC with easy to get file for these. BTW SSI and SS2 use same file for UA version or SS2. As for programmer, you just need to find one that has the M48T58Y capability. There is usually some kind of list with these cheap programmers that will tell you what they will do. If yours can identify or its not in the list, its a no go. You have to get a programmer that can do the IC. Once you get a programmer that identifies chip, its a simple program function. There is are no settings issue other than say go.
Also, If your little upper pcb is not UA, PM me. I have done other regions on SS2.
 
As mentioned you have to match country or region file to the upper pcb.
The LAN board to be exact. I figured this out in MAME while attempted to boot Silent Scope 2 to any region other than UAA. Konami implemented this as a means to prevent changing the region easily unlike in the first game. Also Silent Scope 2's timekeeper has a two byte checksum which I have yet to understand in order to boot Silent Scope 2 in MAME as any region other than UA.
 
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going to give it a try

I'm just an amateur seeing if i can do it. No training, but i'm on a roll, fixed 3 of my games last year,(cap for vertical collapse, transistor to fix no blue, and 2 optical sensor on a putting challenge) so i bought a beat up silent scope to see if i can keep it going. i do have the 931ua. which i got the right file to put on the chip. I bought a GQ-4X4 programmer, since user above, said he used it to program the M48T58Y-70PC1 chip. I'm just hoping i can figure out how to use the programmer. Which chip should i choose to program it. I'm sure each programmer is different, but what chip am i looking for in the programmer.
Dallas 1225Y
Dallas DS1643
JEDEC 8K X 8 SRAM chip
if anybody has the cq 4x, a quick tutorial would be awesome.
 
The GQ-4X4 supports the M48T58Y, so select M48T58Y. ;) You do need to use a jumper wire to connect pin 26 to 28 though.

DogP
 
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