4 slot sound problem - certain channels cut in an out

Last night I'm playing the big red with some friends and out of nowhere the sound is buggery beyond belief on certain games. Neo Turf Masters was the worst.

The problem was that part of the sound would cut in and out intermittently and at random times. It wasn't a total sound/volume loss but instead just some or most of the sound. I can still get a very loud volume from the board.

I cleaned the cart; reseated the carts; rearranged the carts in their slots; tried it without every slot full. The problem was worse sometimes than others but always present on certain games (Neo Turf always bad; SVC Chaos always good). I feel certain its not a game problem.

Does this sound like a potential cap issue or something else? I have not done a recap.

Thanks in advance.

Could be the cart. Open it up and check for bad traces and broken solder joints around the V chip.

Cap it. Probably needs it anyway

If it follows the cart, it's cart related.

If you have a cart that always works then your caps are OK.

channelmaniac said:

If you have a cart that always works then your caps are OK.

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I think your right. I was playing around with it more today and I realized that when I was swapping out carts and trying different configurations yesterday I never took out Windjammers (it's legit; no boot). I took it out and put Neo Turf back in, the sound was perfect.

I'm going to test out some more combinations. Anyone else have any other cart combinations that are consistently disagreeable on your 4 slot? My Windjammers seems to piss off several of my other carts.

astrodan88 said:

I think your right. I was playing around with it more today and I realized that when I was swapping out carts and trying different configurations yesterday I never took out Windjammers (it's legit; no boot). I took it out and put Neo Turf back in, the sound was perfect.

I'm going to test out some more combinations. Anyone else have any other cart combinations that are consistently disagreeable on your 4 slot? My Windjammers seems to piss off several of my other carts.

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I had this same issue with an art of fighting 2 cart. Would swap all around and had similar issues. Usually would be something to the effect where aof2 would be slot two... so game 1 sound worked fine... problems on two and no sound... then 3 and 4 no sound...switch back to 1 and now nothing. It woudl be anytime after selecting that cart everything would bonk out. Ended up just needing a few cleanings.

Edit: this is with a 4 slot... and after a real good cleaning x3 or so all combinations are fine. Maybe you do have some cart issues like xian xi mentioned?!