modessitt
Volunteer: Encyclopedia Submission Moderator
Game belongs to a customer. Noticed something wrong while there for a pinball delivery. Haven't even looked inside the cab, as the customer wasn't there to authorize additional work.
Turn the game on and hear "The Force will be with you" like normal. Attract screen runs, but when the "STAR WARS" is supposed to scroll up, it just has a glow from the upper right corner. The green words come out fine, and towards the end of this part of the attract screen, there is some weird graphics lines and what not in the upper right-hand corner, like the STAR WARS logo is up there but mostly off the screen. All the other attract screens (high score list, etc) are fine.
When you start a game, you get the normal EASY MEDIUM HARD select screen, with the little Death Stars. You move your cross-hairs and hit your button to select. Music starts fine, you have your scores and shields on top, you have your X-Wing guns on both sides top and bottom, your cross-hairs move around, and you can fire to the cross-hairs using all four buttons. BUT - there are no tie-fighters, star field, or Death Star in the background. After about 5-6 seconds, you hear, 'I'm going in!', as it's supposed to go into the trench on the Death Star, but there is no trench or Death Star. You can fire all you want, but the game will just sit there forever with nothing to do and you don't get killed by anything. You get this no matter what difficulty setting you choose.
So - what's the likely problem? Bad ROM? Bad RAM? Chip sockets/dirty legs?
The customer complained last time when I fixed his Asteroids because he thought it was fine (hadn't played it in a month) and it had a bad DAC. So - we left it as-is for him to see the problem and then we'll fix it. Just figured I'd start thinking about it now....
Turn the game on and hear "The Force will be with you" like normal. Attract screen runs, but when the "STAR WARS" is supposed to scroll up, it just has a glow from the upper right corner. The green words come out fine, and towards the end of this part of the attract screen, there is some weird graphics lines and what not in the upper right-hand corner, like the STAR WARS logo is up there but mostly off the screen. All the other attract screens (high score list, etc) are fine.
When you start a game, you get the normal EASY MEDIUM HARD select screen, with the little Death Stars. You move your cross-hairs and hit your button to select. Music starts fine, you have your scores and shields on top, you have your X-Wing guns on both sides top and bottom, your cross-hairs move around, and you can fire to the cross-hairs using all four buttons. BUT - there are no tie-fighters, star field, or Death Star in the background. After about 5-6 seconds, you hear, 'I'm going in!', as it's supposed to go into the trench on the Death Star, but there is no trench or Death Star. You can fire all you want, but the game will just sit there forever with nothing to do and you don't get killed by anything. You get this no matter what difficulty setting you choose.
So - what's the likely problem? Bad ROM? Bad RAM? Chip sockets/dirty legs?
The customer complained last time when I fixed his Asteroids because he thought it was fine (hadn't played it in a month) and it had a bad DAC. So - we left it as-is for him to see the problem and then we'll fix it. Just figured I'd start thinking about it now....
