drjones
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I bought my first pin a little over a week ago - Space Shuttle. I picked it up at auction, felt like the price was pretty good so I jumped. It's not perfect and has a fair amount of wear on the playfield. Gameplay seems right on though, everything tests fine and I haven't noticed any oddities. There are some problems not related to gameplay, though, and I have some general questions - thanks in advance for any help
- Glow effect behind shuttle engines (backglass): should the engines "glow" all the time or only when entering certain game modes, e.g. multiball? I seem to remember the engine flames flickering ALL the time but could be wrong
- Speech: After reseating the roms on the voice board, I got speech working in-game. However, when running the sound diagnostics it only tests the CPU generated sounds. The manual seems to indicate that it'll cycle through the speech sounds as well, but all I get are the CPU sounds. Not a huge deal since they seem to work fine in-game, but being able to test them would be nice.
- Display: My display is hosed and I thought if I post what's going on some folks may have some ideas on where to start looking. My digit displays work, but display a bunch of garbage. When running display diagnostics, only one display (player 4) will cycle through all numbers, the other displays will show things like '1111111' '2211222' '3222222', etc. And in-game, it seems like the displays are only cable of displaying 0's and 2's. The displays themselves don't SEEM to be the issue - hooking player 1 into player 4 turns player 4's output into junk. I've checked all the connections, no broken pins or anything like that. Haven't looked at the bottom of the display driver board yet but nothing on top looks cracked or corroded. This is my first foray into troubleshooting anything of this nature, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Worst case it looks like replacement boards (assuming that's the issue) run about $75.
- Glow effect behind shuttle engines (backglass): should the engines "glow" all the time or only when entering certain game modes, e.g. multiball? I seem to remember the engine flames flickering ALL the time but could be wrong
- Speech: After reseating the roms on the voice board, I got speech working in-game. However, when running the sound diagnostics it only tests the CPU generated sounds. The manual seems to indicate that it'll cycle through the speech sounds as well, but all I get are the CPU sounds. Not a huge deal since they seem to work fine in-game, but being able to test them would be nice.
- Display: My display is hosed and I thought if I post what's going on some folks may have some ideas on where to start looking. My digit displays work, but display a bunch of garbage. When running display diagnostics, only one display (player 4) will cycle through all numbers, the other displays will show things like '1111111' '2211222' '3222222', etc. And in-game, it seems like the displays are only cable of displaying 0's and 2's. The displays themselves don't SEEM to be the issue - hooking player 1 into player 4 turns player 4's output into junk. I've checked all the connections, no broken pins or anything like that. Haven't looked at the bottom of the display driver board yet but nothing on top looks cracked or corroded. This is my first foray into troubleshooting anything of this nature, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Worst case it looks like replacement boards (assuming that's the issue) run about $75.
