Ghost Pilot

Lorfarius · Sep 10, 2009

Just picked up a copy of Ghost Pilot for the AES but I think it has a serious problem with the sound. When I turn it on the Neo Geo logo pops up as it should, plays the little ditty and then the game loads. However it emits a constant series of hard beeps (sounds a bit like one of those old telegraph machines going off) and beneath all this you can just make out some of the game sound/effects etc

Is there anything that can be done?

werejag · Sep 10, 2009

have you done the standard cleaning with erasers/ alcohol and qtips?

Lorfarius · Sep 10, 2009

werejag said:
have you done the standard cleaning with erasers/ alcohol and qtips?

Yep, no joy

werejag · Sep 10, 2009

i don't know how hard it is to get the pcbs out

i don't have aes

but what i do with mvs carts is clean the separate pcbs with soap and water and completely dry them with a hairdryer.

channelmaniac · Sep 10, 2009

If cleaning isn't the answer then check for broken/corroded traces on the sound ROMs. Beyond that it's probably a bad ROM chip.

RJ

Lorfarius · Sep 10, 2009

Thanks guys.

Lorfarius · Sep 11, 2009

channelmaniac said:
If cleaning isn't the answer then check for broken/corroded traces on the sound ROMs. Beyond that it's probably a bad ROM chip.

RJ

How do you actually open the cartridge? I'm probably being incredibly thick but I can't see anywhere it actually unscrews and the label seems to fold right over the top where the joint is.

chris1 · Sep 11, 2009

I was playing my AES today,several games gave me issues..I cleaned the contacts with alcohol and q-tips..
This method Seems to work fine with my AES games but I'd prefer to open them..
looking at the carts today,I wish I could open them but it's not as easy as MVS....
Looks like I might snap something trying to open an AES cart.

MVS games I have to open and clean using other methods then alcolhol-qtip.

DIRTY<>CLEAN

Xian Xi · Sep 11, 2009

Lorfarius said:
How do you actually open the cartridge? I'm probably being incredibly thick but I can't see anywhere it actually unscrews and the label seems to fold right over the top where the joint is.

Here's a tutorial I made on how to open the aes cart, I hope it's easy to understand:

http://www.jamma-nation-x.com/jammax/tutorials.html?show=aescart

Lorfarius · Sep 12, 2009

Thanks Xian Xi thats fantastic

metallizer · Sep 12, 2009

I advice you to be real careful since old carts like ghost pilots more fragile tabs than later home carts.

Ghost Pilot

Lorfarius

n00b

werejag

Galford's Poppy Trainer

Lorfarius

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werejag

Galford's Poppy Trainer

channelmaniac

Mr Neo Fix-it

Lorfarius

n00b

Lorfarius

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chris1

POCKETBIKE NUT,

Xian Xi

JammaNationX,

Lorfarius

n00b

metallizer

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