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Pang 3 PAL dumps

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Mar 272014
 

caius has dumped two remaining PAL chips from a PANG 3 PCB.
It is unknown if the board is genuine or not seeing as though a lot of these Mitchell boards seemed to be very poor quality.

Thanks to caius

 Posted by at 9:09 pm

Tecmo Knight/Wild Fang PLD

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Mar 252014
 

Found a PAL chip on my Wild Fang PCB today.
Its labelled T-3 and is found on the CPU board.
All tested and confirmed working.

 Posted by at 7:09 pm

A Spy Hunter PLD dump

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Mar 142014
 

Here is another dump/recreation from the Spy Hunter boardset.
This one is labelled 0066-316BX-XXQX and is found at location 13B on the main CPU board.

Only 3 more to go but they are gonna be tough.

 Posted by at 2:34 pm

Spy Hunter repair log #3

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Mar 122014
 

A quick one here.
Tested a CPU board with known good video gen board and SSIO board connected.
The game had no sync but it appeared the game was running.
Sync could be a bad fault to have as its heavily dependent on the PLD’s found on this board and I have yet to reverse them.
Luckily for me I found the last stage before being outputted to the monitor was to blame. The 7404 chip @ location C4 had stuck outputs, replacing this brought the sync back and the board was fine after that.

 Posted by at 7:47 pm