I had a couple of original Capcom ‘1942’ PCBs lying around which I never tested due to the lack of a proper JAMMA adapter (game uses an unique pinout which is not the Capcom Classics one).Recently I had chance to build the adapter and try the boards out, it turned out both were faulty.
The first set was in good shape in its CPU board :
And VIDEO board:
It even booted up and played with sound too but sprites (planes) were totally absent:
The faulty was obviously located on VIDEO board so I went through schematics and found a part of the object circuit highlighted with an handwritten note saying “NO PLANES”
The circled section concerned two NAND gates of a 74LS00 @N8 which generates two signals labeled ‘1WR’ and ‘2WR’.When I probed the inputs I found pin 9 and 4 stuck HIGH:
These inputs come from outputs of a 74LS139 @N10 which had its pin 1 floating:
Pin 1 is the enable input of the decoder and comes from output pin 5 of a 74LS174 @N11 :
Pin 5 of this 74LS174 was indeed floating, stuck at undefined voltage level of +1.64V :
But the input pin 4 was active :
This is a typical way of failure of Fujitsu TTLs and the part was from this manufacturer hence , sure enough, I removed the chip.It miserably failed the out-of-circuit testing:
Replacing it restored the sprites :
First board fixed.
The second set was in good shape too :
But it booted to a static garbage screen :
Probing the Z80 main CPU revealed clock input (pin 6) was stuck high:
With the help of schematics I traced the clock input back to pin 7 of a 74LS174 @H6 located on CPU board, chip was again from Fujitsu :
Input pin 6 was correctly receiving a 3 MHz signal:
I made piggybacking with a good known IC and board succesfully booted into game:
Chip obviously failed the out-of-circuit testing:
Replacing it fixed board completely.Double repair job done.
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