TrevEB
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Midway's Space Invaders
This is on the same machine that has monitor woes.
After cleaning the control panel and installing new metal art plate, I fired up the game and found that I had reversed the setup for player 1-2 and the movement left-right was flaky.
So I flipped the control panel over while the machine was on and got to work setting the buttons correctly and adjusting the leafs.
Then the screen flipped out.
Displaying various invaders, letters a-z across the top and other various graphic nasties. Rows of straight lines left to right.
I powered off and on to no avail.
Instead of the screen slowly coming up showing the game in attract mode, the screen now comes up bright, then goes into messed up graphics
Can't start a game. Pressing buttons changes graphics and sometime beeps sounds.
I cannot find anything about a special button combination that would bring up a test mode, if that is what this is.
Did I just witness my ram failing and it was just coincidence that it happened at this moment?
I happen to have a new multichip, so I stuck that in but immediately got beeping error sounds. Of course, the chip didn't come with a manual so I found out later what those beeps might mean. Bad ram.
Next Visit, test voltage, maybe install new ram.
This machine does not have any sort of upgrade kit installed.
This is on the same machine that has monitor woes.
After cleaning the control panel and installing new metal art plate, I fired up the game and found that I had reversed the setup for player 1-2 and the movement left-right was flaky.
So I flipped the control panel over while the machine was on and got to work setting the buttons correctly and adjusting the leafs.
Then the screen flipped out.
Displaying various invaders, letters a-z across the top and other various graphic nasties. Rows of straight lines left to right.
I powered off and on to no avail.
Instead of the screen slowly coming up showing the game in attract mode, the screen now comes up bright, then goes into messed up graphics
Can't start a game. Pressing buttons changes graphics and sometime beeps sounds.
I cannot find anything about a special button combination that would bring up a test mode, if that is what this is.
Did I just witness my ram failing and it was just coincidence that it happened at this moment?
I happen to have a new multichip, so I stuck that in but immediately got beeping error sounds. Of course, the chip didn't come with a manual so I found out later what those beeps might mean. Bad ram.
Next Visit, test voltage, maybe install new ram.
This machine does not have any sort of upgrade kit installed.
