Busted Bubble Bobble Arcade Cabinet

[figment1988]

one thing that i noted was how even though this is the US version (seeing as it had the Romstar license in the title), the "how to play" text was in japanese

[BIGUGLYTROLLvideos1]

GAME OVER

p.s. you won

p.p.p.s☻/

/▌

/ \

copy and paste bob he will soon take over youtube

[linuxlove4004]

EEPROM's are probibly going bad.

[retrotails]

Does the EEPROM deal with misc. data like that or is it a result?

[linuxlove4004]

the EEPROM's hold all the game data, like levels, sprites and music. If those are going bad, then when the CPU reads that address that hold whatever, it will come out messed up.

[retrotails]

Oh, so it's easy to put another game on the EEPROM? Because it sounds awesome to make a hack and play it on a cabinet!

[linuxlove4004]

well, first you need a EEPROM burner, then you need to find out all the detailed tech specs of the cabinet board, then you need to understand whatever programming language the board uses and then, only then can you hack it.

It's better to buy new EEPROMs and put the same game on there.

[Mikej2156]

@linuxlove4004 yup, agreed .

Some ppl do it on the cheap tho and reflash the bad ROM with the mame dumps floating around:)

[13past9]

Shame that it's busted. I used to play the arcade version at this restaurant that I went to as a kid. I almost always ate grilled cheese there.

[DragWx]

I'm tempted to buy it just to see if I can fix it up. o_O I don't have the money though.

[tailsrox77]

clearly this is brocken XD