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Amarthar's Secret of Mana 2 repro updates thread
Rx_79:
What kinda wire did you use? I used a hard drive ribbon cable.
scarmullet:
If you cant get them in the cart, try daisy chaining them together and using heat shrink tubing to allow you to bend the set into place where you can fit it into the cart.
destructiveme:
--- Quote from: Rx_79 on August 24, 2011, 04:00:11 PM ---What kinda wire did you use? I used a hard drive ribbon cable.
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IDE cable was too much a hassle for me - just get some presoldered preisolated wire from your electronics store :)
Rx_79:
I checked the eproms everything looks good on that end. So I resoldered the eproms back together. I debated on trying to solder them down where the mask eprom was, But I don't think that the case would close any better like that. So I opened up madden 94 only to learn it has the wrong board. I hate removing those lock out screws, and it a good thing I picked up a bunch of madden games for this project, and only one was madden 94.
Anyway I got half the soldering done and I went with wire from a usb cable. Witch made it alot easier as the wire is easier to stripe the ends. It is also more ridged and the solder actually sticks.
So here's where i'm at now, it got too late for me to continue. Plus my eyes where going cross-eyed from staring at solder points.
destructiveme:
Today I tried to fit the PCB into the cartridge - no change!
So I resoldered everything to have one chip on the PCB and the other threes piggybacked.
Worked like a charm, but I think I may have damanged one of the EPROMs, it only works occasionally now if I bend them in a specific direction.
Guess i have to desolder the three of them and test them when I get my programmer back. :(
Damn, I was so happy that my PCB would finally fit the cartridge (it did, I tested i!)
Check out this gallery if you want to know how it looks now:
http://imageshack.us/g/695/20110825154028.jpg/
An user asked me to provide a more detailed diagram, here it is: (original from d4s)
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3239/som2diagramv11.png
Hope it helps a bit!
@Rx_79:
Looks good so far, please upload a picture of the backside too, maybe you destroyed some soldering eye?