darknezz19
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Anyone have any ideas for singling out faulty rom chips. Maybe a corrupter on one rom at a time and then loading into mame to see if the results are similar?
Singling out faulty rom chips.
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A ROM corrupting tool is just that, it wrecks the data in a ROM. It's for experiments and hacking.
I suppose you could try doing that, but it's not reliable. Most people will tell you to use a logic probe to look for stuck address/data lines, or otherwise oddly acting ROM chips.
I suppose you could try doing that, but it's not reliable. Most people will tell you to use a logic probe to look for stuck address/data lines, or otherwise oddly acting ROM chips.
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I take my logic probe tip and use it to short 2 lines of the ROMs momentarily to see what changes on the screen. That allows you to ID background, player sprites, and overlay (text/scores/health) ROMs quickly.
Oh, and if you hit audio samples they will sound like shit and finding program ROMs will cause the game to lock up or reboot.
Oh, and if you hit audio samples they will sound like shit and finding program ROMs will cause the game to lock up or reboot.