Bagman pcb repair notes.

 

I've labeled this one as notes rather than a repair log as it was three different boards I repaired at once and not everything is covered. A lot of TTL needed to be replaced to get these up and running.

Some issues I noticed across all three boards were that the Z80 cpus were bad and when removing them from their socket some of the pins broke off and stayed in the socket.

Missing player / enemy sprites on two of the boards was down to a bad 74LS163 @ M2
Can also be caused by a bad 74LS32 @ 2P

No speech (TMS5110A was ok) on one board it was a bad PROM @ R6 and on the other a bad 74LS151 @ S6

Bad PROMS in general, on one of the boards all three were bad. This causes colour issues and no speech.

An issue across all three boards was bad / missing video sync. This was a combination of bad 74LS161s @ A4, A5, B4 and B5.

Bad 74LS283s @D2 and D3 again on all three boards.

Certain controls not working 74LS245 @ 9A or 2B

The four sprite rams (27LS00) were fine on all three boards.

One final note, the PAL @ P6 is used for 'guards controlling' according to mame, which I guess is a cryptic way of saying controls the enemies. With the PAL removed the enemies seem to behave the same but I am guessing later in the game they behave differently and that it might make the game harder with it removed.

A similar security measure to what Bubble Bobble used maybe?

Download the full size image here

To help with my repairs I took the existing pdf scans of the schematics which are split up over several pages and combined them into a single page using photoshop. There's still quite a few areas that aren't legible unfortunately but I don't think the originals were that good to begin with.

Final Fight pcb repair

This original CPS1 Final Fight pcb was working fine apart from no sound.

The most likely causes were the Z80 cpu (capcom fitted Z80 instead of Z80A), 6116 work ram for the Z80, sound eprom on the B board and less likely but also possible the amplifier or oscillator.

I started with the sound eprom for some reason this one always seems to be missing a label on many CPS1 games which lets the bad UV light in. This was fine though, next I had a close look at the board it was very clean and looked like it had been well looked after.

The 6116 ram on the other hand had corrosion on several of legs, I have read that some early 2K X 8 rams contain electrolyte which eventually leaks. I am not sure if this is true but it would explain why these Sony rams often fail and the corrosion on the legs which was no where else on the board.

With a socket and new old stock compatible ram fitted the sound was fully restored.