complete cps 1 restoration is now possible

mainman

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Tim over at <a href="http://www.arcadecollecting.com" target="_blank">www.arcadecollecting.com</a> has now come up with a way to salvage the original small c board on almost all cps 1 boards after the battery has died. No more swamping between street fighter and the punisher for me, I tried it and it works.
 

Alkanan

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Thanks for the post, that's going to help many members (including myself) in dealing with such a problem.*

*Damn you greedy bastards at Capcom for putting in a suicide battery!
 
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Caris Nautilus

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how do you do it? i have a dead Cadillacs & Dinosaurs board i've had sitting in a box for 2 years now, battery died.
 

mainman

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Drift King EX:
how do you do it? i have a dead Cadillacs & Dinosaurs board i've had sitting in a box for 2 years now, battery died.
It your lucky day I also have a cadillacs and dinosaurs board that I repaired after both batteries have died. First thing your going to have to do is see which batteries are dead out of the two thats on the board. Check the small C board battery for voltage, if its still at 3 volts the c board is still alive and doesn't have to be hacked. If not your going to have to revive it by doing some CAREFUL soldering, cutting and burnig 2 new eprom with a patch program to replace two of the eproms next to the c board. Check to see if the battery on the Q sound board is still alive ( bet you its not ) if its dead your going to have to replace the cpu with a new Z80B cpu and burn another eprom with a patch program for the Q sound board. This whole process is explained in greater detail at <a href="http://www.arcadecollecting.com" target="_blank">www.arcadecollecting.com</a> and the patch programs can also be obtained from there as well.
 

MKL

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mainman:
Tim over at <a href="http://www.arcadecollecting.com" target="_blank">www.arcadecollecting.com</a> has now come up...
Now? That update was done months ago... :p
 

mainman

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MKL:
mainman:
Tim over at <a href="http://www.arcadecollecting.com" target="_blank">www.arcadecollecting.com</a> has now come up...
Now? That update was done months ago... :p
Yeah thats true, but it doesn't mean that everybody that wants to hear about this has already become aware of this news.
 

Lagduf

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mainman:
MKL:
mainman:
Tim over at <a href="http://www.arcadecollecting.com" target="_blank">www.arcadecollecting.com</a> has now come up...
Now? That update was done months ago... :p
Yeah thats true, but it doesn't mean that everybody that wants to hear about this has already become aware of this news.
This is true, i wasn't aware of it. Thanks mainman.
 

MKL

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mainman:
Check the small C board battery for voltage, if its still at 3 volts the c board is still alive and doesn't have to be hacked.
You may well kill the board on purpose ad then fix the problem forever.

mainman:
Check to see if the battery on the Q sound board is still alive ( bet you its not ) if its dead your going to have to replace the cpu with a new Z80B cpu
The custom Z80 (the Kabuki) need not be replaced if you do a very simple hack (explained on Tim's page).
 
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