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So I purchased a Pulstar Cart from Adderall, Solid dude that I've dealt with plenty of times. Got it in the mail on Monday and popped it in my mvs and let the demo run with the sound turned down. I usually do this with all the mvs carts that I get just to see if they work. I let the demo run while I do stuff around my house. Game Demo ran ok so I didn't think anything of it.
Today I popped it in to give it a spin and noticed during the demo on the high score screen that the music was very loud and scrambled. So no biggie, took some deoxit to the contacts and popped it back in and same issue. After that took some rubbing alchol to the contacts, same thing.
So I thought maybe it's my ST Cmvs with a old 2.3 Uni-Bios, so I got out the Omega and same thing. Popped it in my Candy 4 Slot, same thing. So now it's not the mobo's, has to be the game. So I pop open the cart and inspect and clean everything. Only thing I saw that might be a issue is some pitting around some traces on one of the boards. So I close the cart up and try again and same thing.
So now I'm like ok, I could live with just the high score screen having messed up sound, let me try the jukebox player in the uni-bios and see if the music works fine and many of the tracks were messed up. Some tracks had distorted and scrambled sound and some would start off really low at first and then get really loud. So I took out the cart and popped it back in and the high score screen sounded almost perfect. Ran the jukebox player and almost all the tracks except for one or two didn't sound right. So I thought, it's getting better, let me try unplugging and plugging the cart back in and back to sounding like shit again.
Kind of a Bummer since I've been looking for this game forever and it doesn't work properly. Maybe it's just not meant to be.
Today I popped it in to give it a spin and noticed during the demo on the high score screen that the music was very loud and scrambled. So no biggie, took some deoxit to the contacts and popped it back in and same issue. After that took some rubbing alchol to the contacts, same thing.
So I thought maybe it's my ST Cmvs with a old 2.3 Uni-Bios, so I got out the Omega and same thing. Popped it in my Candy 4 Slot, same thing. So now it's not the mobo's, has to be the game. So I pop open the cart and inspect and clean everything. Only thing I saw that might be a issue is some pitting around some traces on one of the boards. So I close the cart up and try again and same thing.
So now I'm like ok, I could live with just the high score screen having messed up sound, let me try the jukebox player in the uni-bios and see if the music works fine and many of the tracks were messed up. Some tracks had distorted and scrambled sound and some would start off really low at first and then get really loud. So I took out the cart and popped it back in and the high score screen sounded almost perfect. Ran the jukebox player and almost all the tracks except for one or two didn't sound right. So I thought, it's getting better, let me try unplugging and plugging the cart back in and back to sounding like shit again.
Kind of a Bummer since I've been looking for this game forever and it doesn't work properly. Maybe it's just not meant to be.
I've been telling everyone it's teh best. And yes, it is possible to 1cc it. But it's much like R-Type, the whole game needs to be memorized. But it is my favorite Neo game.
