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Super contra rom test all bad??

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This board just arrived today and I’m doing the standard checks. Went into the test menu and the rom test comes back with everything bad?? Can someone do this test on their board because the game seems to play fine :/
 

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Actually everything seems to be playing upside down now that I flipped the screen. Weird things pop up or flip upside down on the attract screen. I also can’t change the difficulty or turn the demo sound on from the dip switches
 

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I can tell you I have a super contra and the Rom test should come back good.

if this is the dual-board version you might want to read this: http://solid-orange.com/1738

Yeah it is the dual board.
I just noticed on the three banks of dip switches , the first 1-4 dips work on bank 1 and bank 2. 5-8 do not work on those. The third bank is only 4 dips and they all work. If I flip the first dip switch on bank 3 it’ll flip the picture right side up and that’s when all the glitching starts happening. When the dip switch is off so the game is playing upside down , all the glitching goes away :/
 

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I can tell you I have a super contra and the Rom test should come back good.

if this is the dual-board version you might want to read this: http://solid-orange.com/1738

That’s an interesting read. Although I don’t have graphical corruption like he did , and with the dips set to play upside down my game plays perfectly fine
 

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That’s an interesting read. Although I don’t have graphical corruption like he did , and with the dips set to play upside down my game plays perfectly fine
He is me... that's my blog.

if you're getting BAD graphics ROMs in the test mode then you have graphics issues, even if you don't notice it yet.
 
He is me... that's my blog.

if you're getting BAD graphics ROMs in the test mode then you have graphics issues, even if you don't notice it yet.

Oh crap I didn’t even notice😅! The top right of the page It says your name 👌
I’m going through the schematics to trace down why the dip switches aren’t working right now
 
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