Dec 162015
I got this Toaplan Out Zone PCB for a repair:
When I powered it up I was greeted by this screen:
This kind of error doesn’t necessarily imply that a RAM chip is faulty but also that it can’t be “reached” from the device which wants to read/write it.In this particular hardware the device in question is a custom ASIC sprites generator marked “FCU-2” also used in other Toaplan games:
I went to inspect it and found some lifted pins:
Blocking the PCB with a vise, I did a reflow of the involved pins
100% fixed!
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