So I fucked up my 6 slot...

andy251203

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God I am so pissed at the moment.

I gotta hand it to Metal Slug 3, that fucking cart is a piece of shit. Great game, BTW, just a piece of trash PCB sandwich.

I can't get the damn game going, so I switch carts out till it sort of works. Well it looks like I switched one too many times too quickly. Now the board will work...but with only one game in it. As soon as I put in two or more carts I get CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK the board resetting 8 times a second. What fucking gives? Did one of those chips on the top board give out or something?

Oh and I already reset the backup ram several times.
 
Hewitson

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What you are hearing is the watchdog constantly resetting the CPU trying to get it to boot.

Until channelmaniac or MKL chime in, do you have a logic probe you can have a poke around the top board with?
 
channelmaniac

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Check your power supply.

The only other thing I can think of is that the chips that handle the cart select on the board are toast.

RJ
 
Arcademan

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Sounds like PS to me since I had a similar issue with my 6-slot and certain high-meg cart games in it. Had to adjust the 5V higher to about 5.2V. Still have a reset issue once in awhile but it's been running pretty good since the adjustment.
 
topher

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yep, power supply issue. I had a 4 slot cab doing the same thing, would work for a while then click, click, click...turned up the voltage on the power supply and all is good now.
 
Hewitson

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I need to stop forgetting people don't check the absolute basics such as power before posting here. :blow_top:
 
not sonic

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Hewitson said:
I need to stop forgetting people don't check the absolute basics such as power before posting here. :blow_top:
Click to expand...

well being the supreme know it all, why dont you make a thread, that can be stickied, of the "absolute basics" to check before posting a thread?
 
andy251203

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Yea that fixed it.

Normally I would have caught something as simple as this, but I've never gotten this "click" crap before. Whenever I had low power issues before, I would get a frozen screen of garbage, but no clicks.

That and I'm just having a bad day.

Fucking power hungry MVS boards... why can't you behave like every other jamma board out there?
 
68k

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1 slot FTW.

Changing a cart isn't that hard. You can only play one game at a time anyway.
 
Hewitson

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No way. Theres nothing better than being able to hit a button and flick through 4 or 6 of your games.

Plus I assume most of us played multislots in our younger days, it brings back memories.
 
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