Nov 272016
 

Got this original Juno First (by Konami) for a repair :

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Board played fine but some sounds were missing, the most noticeable was the laser shot:

Here is a MAME record for a comparison:

All the sounds are generated by the AY-3-8910 chip.Probing it revealed that three I/O (pin 19-20-21) were stuck high, these should exchange data with same number of I/0 lines of the Intel 8039 MCU like shown in schematics:

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The 8039  was dead,  clock was missing on pin 2 and 3.I replaced the 8MHz quartz and the two 10pF capacitors with no change.This MCU has no internal ROM so it needs an external one :

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Using a dummy ROM file in MAME reproduced exactly the issue, some sounds were missing like in my board.This lead me to think the MCU was bad so I removed it:

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The 8039 is not widely used on arcade system but I was luck and found one on a Gyruss bootleg.Installed a socket and chip:

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and all mssing sounds were back.End of job.

 Posted by at 10:47 pm

Gun Force 2 PAL dumps added

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Nov 192016
 

Today I dumped the PLDs from a Gun Force 2 PCB (Irem M92-B-G ROM board revision).Device were two secured PAL16L8 with no marking or label.There is another PAL but it’s set as registered so undumpable (but it seems not used since PCB works fine without it).Dumps have been successfully tested on GAL16V8 targeting device.

 Posted by at 12:49 pm

Juno First PAL dump added

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Nov 162016
 

Today I dumped the PAL from an original Juno First PCB.PAL is at location B6 of lower board, part name is scratched off but schematics reports it as a PAL10L8.Dump has been tested as working in a GAL16V8 targeting device.

 Posted by at 10:37 pm

Batman Forever, Gals Panic, Big Karnak PAL dumps added

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Nov 112016
 

Today we have some new PAL dumps from the following boards:

  • Batman Forever, dumped from a Sega STV cart by ‘coolmod’, device was an unsecured GAL16V8.Thanks to him.
  • Gals Panic (MCU protected PCB revision), device was a secured 18CV8.
  • Big Karnak, devices were  secured  GAL16V8 and PALCE20V8H (board has other two PLDs but they are set as registered)

All dumps have been tested and working in GAL targeting devices.

 

 Posted by at 12:44 pm