Windjammers MVS Bad Sound

TK86079 · Mar 25, 2019

Hey, my windjammers has bad scratchie noises. After 20-60 minutes it dissaper most of the time. I heard that there are many WJ Games with the same Problem. Is there any known way to fix it?
Greetings Alex

shadowkn55 · Mar 25, 2019

Probably a cold solder joint somewhere. The roms are also 27C800 equivalent so you can remove those and verify if need be.

TK86079 · Mar 26, 2019

So, I re soldered every point from the backside and made a clean in ultrasonic and PCB cleaner.
But still the same.

shadowkn55 · Mar 26, 2019

What about the pcm chip?

NexusX · Mar 26, 2019

M1 going bad maybe? I tend to reflow all of the solder joints on the board just to rule out anything else like that.

TK86079 · Mar 26, 2019

Ok, I have to give it a try, I started with the large solderings. I‘ll check it out. Thanks.

TK86079 · Mar 27, 2019

So, I did the rest of the chips and still the same. I think its bad luck and something is broken....

BIG BEAR · Mar 27, 2019

You may need to replace the PCM or you could just transfer the roms to another PROG pcb.
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Neorebel · Mar 27, 2019

Bookmarking - I have this very same issue

I may just buy another one. Maybe if you find a way to fix it I can pay to you fix mine...

BIG BEAR · Mar 27, 2019

Your cart is doing the exact same thing?? I can take a look at it.Just drop me a PM.
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Neorebel said:
Bookmarking - I have this very same issue I may just buy another one. Maybe if you find a way to fix it I can pay to you fix mine...

wyo · Mar 27, 2019

Common problem with Windjammers.

Lukejaywalker23 · Apr 9, 2019

Did you try cleaning the fuck out of the pins? That works for me on mine.

TK86079 · Apr 9, 2019

Yes, I did. Also ultrasonic bathing and PCB cleaner. No chance for me, I bought a new one what works fine.
I will try to sell it, maybe someone else can repair it.

NexusX · Apr 9, 2019

Well. As an overkill method. You could always do a complete PCB board swap. From what I can find Fatal Fury 1 has both compatible PCB boards (42G-1) for you to swap the Mask ROM chips to. At least it's cheap compared to destroying a Robo Army or Baseball Stars 2 cart for the same thing. If it STILL has the same problem. You can pretty much know that it is a bad ROM chip at that point.

Like I said. Overkill, but still a method to use.

BIG BEAR · Apr 9, 2019

I'd be interested if you ship to the US and the total cost is not that bad.
If that's the case,feel free to drop me a PM.
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TK86079 said:
Yes, I did. Also ultrasonic bathing and PCB cleaner. No chance for me, I bought a new one what works fine.
I will try to sell it, maybe someone else can repair it.

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