I got this board always from Ebay sold as faulty:

When I first powered up it I got a solid black screen.Probing the CPU I noticed some strange activity on 68000 address/data lines and watchdog was indeed active.So I piggybacked the two 62256 work RAMs @U1 and U4 and  I got this:

Despite the message error,this was a good sign of life so I desoldered the two RAMs and I found them really bad:

Replaced them but still black screen and watchdog active.So, I noticed there were other two RAMs connected to 68000 CPU but not directly but through two 74LS245 and enable pin of these were stuck high.I traced back it to an output of a 74HC4075 so I started to test it with logic probe and while I was probing it suddendly the PCB succesfully booted to title screen:

I can’t really explain this but now the PCB is now working perfectly every time I power it on and this is the most important thing.See you next repair!

This one came from the same lot of faulty PCBs (seven in total) as the previously repaired Growl.For the uninitiated, Cadash is an action game with some RPG elements.

Board was in good shape (it has also additional hardware for multi-link game) .

When powered on I got this screen:

There was a clear problem with main code execution so I dumped the four program ROMs and none of them matched the ones in MAME.I ran these dumped ROMs in MAME and I got a similar error (different memory address due not perfect emulation of 68000 core, I guess):

This was enough to lead me to reprogram the four program ROMs from cadash World set into 27C010 devices.And this was the winning move which fixed the board.