Baseball Stars 2....pins soldered together

NGT · Mar 7, 2015

the game has been giving me graphical issues since I got it, but often resolved with reinserting the cart and it played fine. A while back the trick stopped working and vertical lines in the game would not go away. I was looking at traces etc.. and didn't see anything, but today I randomly popped the game open and saw this on chip C2. Could this be causing my issue? Are these supposed to be bent over and soldered together? I am guessing they aren't, but always best to check with the experts before desoldering anything...since my skills are pretty rusty, lol.

sorry for the bad pic, but it's the best I've got. You can see the two pins in the middle are bent over and together.

NGT · Mar 7, 2015

desoldered it....still have lines. Not sure if paying someone to look at this is worth it since it's not an extremely expensive game. The extra solder came off like butter, leaving the other solder intact. If I do just pick up a new game, maybe someone who knows what they're doing can save this game.

aha2940 · Mar 7, 2015

I believe they are not supposed to be soldered together, but from the picture (it's blurry where it matters) it seems that both of them go to ground, so it would not matter if they are soldered together. The lines can be caused by a dirty connector either on the console or the cartridge, or maybe a broken trace or damaged chip, however that would not be fixed by reinserting the cart.

Regards.

Tyranix95 · Mar 7, 2015

aha2940 said:
I believe they are not supposed to be soldered together, but from the picture (it's blurry where it matters) it seems that both of them go to ground, so it would not matter if they are soldered together. The lines can be caused by a dirty connector either on the console or the cartridge, or maybe a broken trace or damaged chip, however that would not be fixed by reinserting the cart.

Regards.

+1.

PM shadowkn55 if you're thinking about getting the cart looked at.

He's good with neo, and is usually Hot 'n Ready to fix stuff.

NGT · Mar 7, 2015

Thanks for the heads up. I've cleaned edges and tried two different 4 slots on all 4 slots and get the same result. I don't think it's a dirty connector. Thanks for the heads up on getting it looked at. I'd love to fix the cart over ditching it for another. Keep games alive, you know.

aha2940 · Mar 7, 2015

NGT said:
Thanks for the heads up. I've cleaned edges and tried two different 4 slots on all 4 slots and get the same result. I don't think it's a dirty connector. Thanks for the heads up on getting it looked at. I'd love to fix the cart over ditching it for another. Keep games alive, you know.

If the problem is the cart, maybe some of the C chips are broken, or maybe one of those chips went bad. If the chip is bad, you can replace it with an EPROM, if the trace is bad, it can be patched. Either way, I'm pretty usre the cart can be completely fixed.

Regards.

everten · Mar 7, 2015

You should reference the MVS scans of that board. If I'm looking at the right board, these 2 should pins be bridged together: http://mvs.gotwalls.com/index.php/File:Baseball_stars_2_set1_b1_back.jpg

Edit:
After looking again I may be looking at the wrong board or the wrong section of the board. Go to this page: http://mvs.gotwalls.com/index.php/Baseball_Stars_2

Tell us which board you have.

BIG BEAR · Mar 7, 2015

It reads like a trace damage right near the connectors on the CHA board. I had a similar problem where there was a stress line crack in the board. I've also had multiple trace nic damage on those pcb's.
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SouthAmericaNeo · Mar 8, 2015

This man know how to repair Neo Geo and many others systems Ask him he likes to help and will sell stuff too.

bustedstr8 · Mar 8, 2015

Luke?....LMAO Hellz Nooz. I dunno what he uses but it sure ain't "THE FORCE"

SouthAmericaNeo · Mar 8, 2015

I am sorry? I thought he was a good idea? I watch his videos and he is nice and has Info.

aha2940 · Mar 8, 2015

SouthAmericaNeo said:
I am sorry? I thought he was a good idea? I watch his videos and he is nice and has Info.

Not really man. He uses some questionable practices, however some information from the man might be useful.

Regards.

Xian Xi · Mar 10, 2015

Lines are commonly from a bad connection from C rom to the slot connector. When you see the lines again move the cart slightly to the left or right and see if it goes away. If the lines are still there make sure all the data pins/all pins are good solder joints and there aren't any cracked solder joints or even cold ones. If the solder joints have a something that looks like a circle then you need to remove the old solder and reflow it.

NGT · Mar 26, 2015

With such a lack of time to figure this out, I sent it off to shadowkn55 and he fixed it. Said he "resoldered some joints that looked dodgy". Great price, game works, and my son is super happy! In the end, that last one is all that matters. Thanks a lot!

GadgetUK · Mar 26, 2015

bustedstr8 said:
Luke?....LMAO Hellz Nooz. I dunno what he uses but it sure ain't "THE FORCE"

I've noticed there's a login popup related to the image in your sig! It was driving me nuts for a while but it's definitely you sig! Asking for login to http://www.rvgfanatic.com

LWK · Apr 6, 2015

Don't listen to those posts. Lukemorse is a really helpful dude with some of his stuff and he's a good guy to watch to get better on what to look for with pcb's.

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