Hey dudes!
Last time I played my Final Fight PCB it worked just fine. Since then it has been situated in one of my cabinettes for a year or two not being played, disconnected from the harness.
Tonight when I hooked it up again, it behaved very strangely. I tried it in more than one cabinette, so I know it's the PCB and nothing else. My PCB is one of those: http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6048/ffus9ix.jpg (thus not a japanese pcb, probably world).
When started, a copyright text is shown. However, instead of filling the whole screen, the text appears on the left side of the screen, and seem chopped off. Some words can be read, others can't be understood. The chars look fine, but the sentences just dont make any sense. On the right side of the screen, the exact same thing is displayed again!
Then, the map comes up. The city should be shown, but just like with the text, it only shows a bit of the map on the left side, and then the exact same thing on the right side, while some of the names on the map are again bogus. Like different letters are displayed instead of the right ones.
In the intro, the text below the intro pics behaves just the same. Totally bogus sentences, displayed twice, once right and once left. However, the pictures above is displayed correctly, except for some vertical blocks that are black, like the gfx is missing there.
When chooseing a fighter, the square that you move to highlight a fighter is fucked up.
In game, atleast on the first level, everything looks fine on screen. No graphics bugs on fighters or background. However, the power bars are looking weird, and the names of the people are again fucked up.
I took out all chips from the top board and reseated them. Same error. I tried to remove one mask chip at a time to see if I could figure out if the error was in one of the mask roms. Well, naturally the gfx fucked up even more when I removed a mask rom and tested, but the error never disappeared, so I guess it's not the mask roms afterall.
Ofcourse, it could be the mainboard (bottom) that's fucked, but I have no other cps1 game to exchange them.
Anyone seen this strange error and know what's wrong?
Any help appreciated!
Last time I played my Final Fight PCB it worked just fine. Since then it has been situated in one of my cabinettes for a year or two not being played, disconnected from the harness.
Tonight when I hooked it up again, it behaved very strangely. I tried it in more than one cabinette, so I know it's the PCB and nothing else. My PCB is one of those: http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6048/ffus9ix.jpg (thus not a japanese pcb, probably world).
When started, a copyright text is shown. However, instead of filling the whole screen, the text appears on the left side of the screen, and seem chopped off. Some words can be read, others can't be understood. The chars look fine, but the sentences just dont make any sense. On the right side of the screen, the exact same thing is displayed again!
Then, the map comes up. The city should be shown, but just like with the text, it only shows a bit of the map on the left side, and then the exact same thing on the right side, while some of the names on the map are again bogus. Like different letters are displayed instead of the right ones.
In the intro, the text below the intro pics behaves just the same. Totally bogus sentences, displayed twice, once right and once left. However, the pictures above is displayed correctly, except for some vertical blocks that are black, like the gfx is missing there.
When chooseing a fighter, the square that you move to highlight a fighter is fucked up.
In game, atleast on the first level, everything looks fine on screen. No graphics bugs on fighters or background. However, the power bars are looking weird, and the names of the people are again fucked up.
I took out all chips from the top board and reseated them. Same error. I tried to remove one mask chip at a time to see if I could figure out if the error was in one of the mask roms. Well, naturally the gfx fucked up even more when I removed a mask rom and tested, but the error never disappeared, so I guess it's not the mask roms afterall.
Ofcourse, it could be the mainboard (bottom) that's fucked, but I have no other cps1 game to exchange them.
Anyone seen this strange error and know what's wrong?
Any help appreciated!
