SEGA Tetris repair log

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Feb 022013
 

Got a Tetris that was sold as faulty.
As with pretty much any PCB I buy, a visual check was carried out and straight away I found this capacitor.


The board came with an adapter but looked a mess and the wire was far too thin on the power lines so I swapped it out.
I also found a couple of pins touching in one of the unused connectors


And finally I found the sound pot was no soldered in at all and was missing its ground pin.


I took a pot from an old scrap board and fitted it.


Now it was boot up time.


All looks ok so far, but…..


I initially thought it was a dodgy EPROM but they checked out fine. Then I realised that the EPROM at location B1 on the ROM board was missing.


I burned a new one from the Jap set and now we have this.


Everything seems to be working fine.
This board still has its battery installed in the FD1094 and surely will be coming to the end of its life by now. I don’t trust myself with a battery change but I think I have desuicided ROM’s so will just wait until it dies completely or I will sell it on as I cant imagine wanting to play this in my cab.

 Posted by at 2:47 pm

New PAL Table now in use

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Jan 312013
 

I have installed a new Table plugin for the PAL list.
Its very similar to the old one but this one has some bug fixes etc
If you encounter any issues using this please let me know.

 Posted by at 8:12 pm

Dark Seal PALs added

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Jan 282013
 

caius has allowed me to add his dumps from his Dark Seal PCB.
These have been tested and are in GAL16V8 format.

Thanks caius

 Posted by at 9:01 pm

Football Champ PAL update

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Jan 272013
 

Since ive recently acquired a Football Champ board I thought id convert and test the PAL dumps that Andreas sent me.
They work fine and the GAL files are also available for download. Ive left the PALs up too just in case.

Status has been changed from Assumed working to Confirmed working

 Posted by at 2:11 pm