channelmaniac

Hey boss, those TI chips rust because they are built like Namco customs - steel legs with silver plating on them.

Yeah, if the music works then your Z80, YM2151, and the HA13001 are all working and don't need replacing. That leaves the OKI chip, the 2 sound sample ROMs on the B board, the interconnect between A and B board, and the passive components around the OKI.

Unfortunately, you'll need another boardset to swap things around to narrow it down. The C boards are common failure points as is the custom chip on the A board.

Not a super cap... When that goes out your sound settings are forgotten and don't match what's in the EEPROM... They usually end up at full blast. Hold down the volume down button while you turn on the game and hold it until you see the splash screen. That will reset tha audio. It happens sometimes when you swap carts around. BTW: This is Capcom CPS2, not System 11.

A Unibit / Stepped bit works as well, but you have to be very careful the hole doesn't go offcenter.

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There are 4 74LS161 or LS163 chips at 2R/2S, 3R/3S on the PCB... check them for failures. They are common failure points and are clock dividers necessary for proper operation of the board.

If you have the Midway 8080 L board for SI, I have the strapping documented.

LS14 should be it... they are Schmitt Triggers which take a slow ramping input and squares it up Those are the first to replace if you can't get inputs from the guns. They are the first in line to get zapped.

If the filters are all good, check to see if there's a 74HC14 on the PCB... That is common on gun games to square up the inputs and is a common failure item. If it failed then make sure the armored cable for the guns are grounded properly. Static is not kind to HC (High speed CMOS) chips...

Lots and lots of bad solder joints on the SPI surface mount customs... Start there with reflowing. If you don't know how, send it to Womble. Also, since this thread was bumped... you don't always have to remove the Flash ROM now if the region byte was corrupted... There's a program to help with that but it's not supported on all game carts. https://bitbucket.org/trap15/spi_revive/

Check the SMT filters for continuity on that interface PCB... and make sure you have +5 going to the gun to power it.

Jungle Hunt and that series isn't too bad to repair. I stay far away from Zoo Keeper, Joust, and the others that spread out all over the bench. For Jungle Hunt, Elevator Action, etc... the key is to read the EPROMs, checksum them, and if correct, program the data back to them. For ones that aren't correct, reprogram them with the proper code. Those EPROMs on those boardsets like to suffer from bit rot for some reason. I find the older Sega boardsets like Choplifter and Wonder Boy suffer similar bit rot, but also leg rot with the dissimilar metals between their gold alloy sockets and tinned pins of the ROMs.

BTW: Your audio replacements worked beautifully on a fairly rare Polygonet Commanders board... once I replaced the failed DAC. :D That is such a fun and underrated game, especially in multiplayer linked cabinets.

Not with leaving the old suicide CPU in place on the board...