CPS2 High Scores

Hi everyone. I seem to be having a slight problem where I change the game settings in the test menu and get high scores but even though it says "saving menu selection to EEPROM" if I turn it off and back on again all my settings and high scores are lost. Is there a battery for this or something on the A-board that I have to replace if it is out of juice or something or is there something fundamentally wrong with my motherboard?

The CPS2 system does not save hiscores, it only stores game settings. There is a daughter board that fits onto the side of the game PCB that could save hiscores into its onboard battery powered memory but the only game to use this pcb was ssf2 the tournament battle. Even that game dident save hiscores though as far as I know.

Raz

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Razoola said:

The CPS2 system does not save hiscores, it only stores game settings. There is a daughter board that fits onto the side of the game PCB that could save hiscores into its onboard battery powered memory but the only game to use this pcb was ssf2 the tournament battle. Even that game dident save hiscores though as far as I know.

Raz

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This is the one thing that annoys me about cps-2.. great games but no high scores....

thanks for the replies guys. Well I guess that explains it. However sometimes I even lose my menu settings if I leave the board turned off for a day or so. I found also that if I turn the board off and back on again after an hour or so it saves the high scores too but any longer than that and they disappear. I guess the eeprom chips can only store information for a set amount of time?

SephirothFF said:

I guess the eeprom chips can only store information for a set amount of time?

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Nope.

eeprom's should store data indefinitely.