Haunted Castle repair log #2

Got this pcb from a friend of mine for a repair

The pcb had already all the sram chips repaired and some flying wires underneath because of broken traces.

Upon boot up, it constantly reset with this message:

First thing was to test the socketed sram chip 6264 near the 2 big customs but as expected they were good.

Tried to flex the pcb and it booted with wrong palette sometimes

Surprisingly once it booted it could be played with wrong palette all the time until the next boot.

So the code did only a check at the beginning.

After pressing and flexing everywere I found out that the game booted only when I pressed the Hybrid module 007327

I discovered looking underneath that the module has some small srams and looking at the schematics this is confirmed.

I turned out that one pin had a subtle loose contact. I reflown brutally everything to make it more resistant against shocks.

Booted the game and I was welcomed to a perfectly working game