‘DeLuSioNal29’ informed us he successfully tested the decrypted ROM set Thunder Blade (317-0056) on his PCB.Thanks to him for his feedback.
I’ve been doing a lot more gaming than anything else recently so thought I’d do a little post on this.
My hardware of choice right now is the Atari Lynx. The only thing that lets the Lynx down for me was the screen. Anyway A guy known as McWill found on the AtariAge forums makes an LCD replacement so I took the plunge and ordered one.
Installation was a little time consuming but definitely not difficult. I found the hardest part was dealing with the Lynx unit itself, it gets a little awkward reattaching the flex cable.
For some reason I never took a picture of the replacement itself so ill just show the before and after screenshots.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Im very impressed with this thing. Pressing the backlight button will switch on/off scan lines too which is a nice touch.
Ill definately be getting a lot more use out of my Lynx now.
Thanks to McWill for this. Delivery took just a few days (from Germany to UK) and was very well packed.
Game Gear is next on my list when funds permit.
Got this pcb to be repaired from a friend.
The pcb was working perfect excepts that the screen was flickering at 1/2 of the vsync.
As usual I visually inspected the board to find loose legs on smd chips but the only one present was good.
I noticed that the pcb had 4x rams 4164 near the video custom chip which are known to be not very reliable.
I started to probe the rams until I found one which had all the signals very weaks.
After soldering a new one, the problem was fixed!
dj_yt has tested the above decrypted version of E-Swat and all is well.
Thanks to dj_yt for testing and reporting back.
In the past days we received some new PAL dumps. For now we mark them as untested since we yet have no feedback on them.Most of dumps came from ‘coolmod’.He sent in dumps from a Gaiapolis PCB (two boards PCB revision), this is the only which has been tested and working in a GAL16V8.Then, he submitted dumps from various boards :
These are untested for now (the ones from Hat Trick Hero ’93 are still in native PAL16L8 format) as well as the dumps we got from Smitdogg on Dumping Union from a laser disk game called Mahjong #4 Shabon-Dama.Thanks to the dumpers for their contribution.