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Cool Craig

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I have a MVS-4-25 rev.3 w/mv-4f board. All slots are occupied and the games cycle through 1-4 like normal. However, I am not getting any "100 meg shock / MAX 330 MEGA PRO-GEAR SPEC" screens in between cycles. Anyone know why this is happening?
 
xiao_haozi

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You don't get that once it's all loaded up. Selecting games just switches to the next games attraction. You will hit the MVS bios screen on initial load and that's a done deal then...it doesn't have to 'load' for each game subsequently.

Someone else could probably give you the actual technical explanation though...
 
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Mine shows the Neo BIOS boot screen when it cycles back to slot 1.

I have a two slot board...when powered on it doesn the following:

1) Boots from slot 1 and shows the Neo BIOS (330 Mega / Giga) screen
2) Winners don't use drugs screen
3) Slot 1 game attract mode
4) Slot 2 game attract mode
5) Loop back to #1

Sometimes the initial boot will happen from slot 2...seems to do this when I have a Giga game in slot 1 and a 330 Mega game in slot 2, but all subsequent times it shows the BIOS screen will be from slot 1 unless I power cycle the cab.
 
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Checked mine again to be sure but yeah... mine is neo boot screen on first load and then even after cycling back from slot 4 to slot 1 it doesn't show boot screen but rather goes right to the attract. Which is what I would think it should do right?
 
Murray

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In addition to what's been posted, I'll say that the 100 Mega Shock splash is in the game software and not part of the boot process.
 
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Having a combination of games installed with any number of them being a "Giga Shock" cartridge will usually goof up what does or doesn't get shown. It's just one of those quirky mysteries you can't really do much about.
 
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Cool Craig

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No matter what carts I throw in, I do not get a bios screen. Is there a setting i have turned off?
 
chewurface

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xiao_haozi said:
Checked mine again to be sure but yeah... mine is neo boot screen on first load and then even after cycling back from slot 4 to slot 1 it doesn't show boot screen but rather goes right to the attract. Which is what I would think it should do right?
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Hard to say as mine does the opposite! I've had the cab powered on and just running while I use my PC or whatever and it always shows the Neo boot screen again when it cycles back to slot 1.

I have a MV-2F board (not sure which revision...the hard dips are on the same edge as the MVS / JAMMA connector) with the stock US BIOS.
 
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