Sportstation - half work, half doesn't

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Picked up a Midway Sportstation at work yesterday. Has NFL Blitz 2000 Gold and Showtime: NBA on NBC in it.

Well, the NFL Blitz works just fine, but when I try to play NBA, I get the "Loading" screen - and then the entire machine resets.

Thoughts?

It has a hard drive, so I'd think either the NBA part is corrupted, or one of the 3 or 4 boards in it is specifically for NBA and has a problem?
 
I'm willing to bet if you go into the test menu, you can access both NBA and NFL's settings. Am I right?

What version of the game do you have? Is it a 3.0 Sportstation, or a 1.5? It sounds like the image is messed up. Mine did the same thing only NBA worked instead of Blitz, once I bought a new drive and slapped the MAME image on there, everything worked again.
 
Well, I haven't gotten that far. So far I've been running through all the disk checks - file check, integrity check, cache check - and it's passing them all. Right now it's running the long "surface scan" test of all the sectors.

I'll check to see which version it is, and whether I can access both game's options, when it's done...
 
Don't go too nuts with that. I had a disk image on my drive that didn't work and was corrupted, that passed all the drive tests and everything. After I re-imaged the drive with MAME's chd, all of a sudden it magically worked.
 
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