Super Off Road problems

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I picked up a $100 not working Super Off Road with track packs, the three wheel version. There is power but the game does not start. I can get into diagnostics, but the text isn't readable.

The first picture shows what it's like when you turn it on. The second is what the text in diagnostics looks like. The third is the background test in diagnostics.

Any advice? It does not seem like just a monitor issue because I turned music on in attract mode and That does not work. There is sound when I put it in sound test mode, most the sounds are like the whistle of a tug boat then it plays a small song, not sure if that's normal or not...

I am not feeling too great about this after reading other people problems with this machine.
 

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Hey ya got it huh?! Looks and sounds like a board problem to me. For a hundred bucks, I'd try to repair the board you have, if not, cruise ebay for a while, you should be able to find a working board for under a hundred given some time.
Have you try pulling the board and resetting the socketed chips? First place to start....
You might get lucky, as I recall it WAS working before sitting for a while.
 
Hey ya got it huh?! Looks and sounds like a board problem to me. For a hundred bucks, I'd try to repair the board you have, if not, cruise ebay for a while, you should be able to find a working board for under a hundred given some time.
Have you try pulling the board and resetting the socketed chips? First place to start....
You might get lucky, as I recall it WAS working before sitting for a while.

Yeah they had it about 2 years, worked good for one and then this. It's been in a dry garage, no signs of water or anything. Boards look like new. Power is fine, a little high even, I adjusted it down. I'll try resetting everything tomorrow.
 
I don't know buddy that looks like an obvious monitor issue to me. Turn your flyback down and get rid of those white raster lines, then focus the screen so you can read what it says. If you turned on the background music, you might have to 'save' it to get it to work, and maybe you couldn't read that part with the monitor turned up so bright?

A bad gameboard can't make retrace lines appear in a monitor. Turn the flyback down first.
 
No that's definately a board issue. That's almost exactly what mine is doing.

Come join us on our Off-Road repair thread, we're trying to stick together to repair our common OR problems, there seems to be very few of us, and little on them in a repair forum search.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=116445



I don't know buddy that looks like an obvious monitor issue to me. Turn your flyback down and get rid of those white raster lines, then focus the screen so you can read what it says. If you turned on the background music, you might have to 'save' it to get it to work, and maybe you couldn't read that part with the monitor turned up so bright?

A bad gameboard can't make retrace lines appear in a monitor. Turn the flyback down first.
 
I stand corrected then. How is the board making retrace lines appear outside of the boundary of the image though?

Hmm, maybe it's got something to do with my 3-Pint lunch;)

Just checked those pics again, and indeed there is retrace lines going outside the game. My game shows nothing but those white stripes, and nothing recognizable or animated. Adjusting the monitor is fairly painless- certainly less so than board repair- blechhhh
 
Yeah, I think he should definately turn the flyback down so he can read what the screen's saying.

I hope you guys get somewhere on fixing those boards, though... I had a couple a while back, but I'm not that great at pcb repair yet.
 
Turning down the brightness does not make it so you can read the text though. And it's focused as well as it can be. It's as if all of the letters are not there, you can see what is there of them though and I can get through the menus using pictures in the manual.
 
Alright. So I did a cap kit and replaced the flyback today. The picture is a little more clear but everything else is the same. Attached are some pictures of the monitor now in diagnostics mode, you will see it's the same but more focused. Same lines. The games does not boot.

Also here is a picture of the board.. is anything missing or wrong?
 

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This might sound odd but check your pedal harness. Sometimes the wires get pinched between the cab and pedal plate and mess with the voltage on the board. I have had Two offroads with the same problem and both of them had ground up wires from being smash in the pedal plate.
 
This might sound odd but check your pedal harness. Sometimes the wires get pinched between the cab and pedal plate and mess with the voltage on the board. I have had Two offroads with the same problem and both of them had ground up wires from being smash in the pedal plate.

That sounds interesting. I will check that tomorrow, I'm getting tired of this thing and might try and sell it for what I have into it. It's too large for my limited space.
 
This might sound odd but check your pedal harness. Sometimes the wires get pinched between the cab and pedal plate and mess with the voltage on the board. I have had Two offroads with the same problem and both of them had ground up wires from being smash in the pedal plate.

Is that what the manual is referring to when it says check for 'open switches'? What if i don't even have the pedals or steering wheels connected- would you think it still would affect board voltages?
 
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