tempest high score save chip

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I ordered a high score chip for my tempest because someone who knows told me mine was bad, due the the fact taht all my high scores read 10101.

I am at a loss of what position on the main board this chip goes.
I ordered it months ago and forgot where he told me to put it.

The chip has er2055 on it I believe, there are other numbers as well.

Any help?
 
ok, I went for it and changed the ship with the only er2055 on the board.

No change.

Can having free play set eliminate the opportunity for high scores?

gonna look up hte manual, set it back to coin play and find out.
 
Our Tempest is on free play and it saves our high scores. Not sure if different ROM revisions act differently but we are using rev. 3.
 
It should still save high scores in free play mode. Check your dip switch settings and make sure you don't have it setup in Demo Mode. Demo mode won't save high scores. You can tell if your in demo mode because it will let you select a level higher than 9. If you can select a red level, your in demo mode.

Luke
 
It should still save high scores in free play mode. Check your dip switch settings and make sure you don't have it setup in Demo Mode. Demo mode won't save high scores. You can tell if your in demo mode because it will let you select a level higher than 9. If you can select a red level, your in demo mode.

Luke

yeah I am definitely in demo mode then. I can score up to like 900,000 just by playing 1 level.

Just gotta change the dip settings to get it back to normal mode?

thanks
 
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