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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: MarkMan on July 07, 2007, 01:34:38 am
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Namco SYSTEM 256 Replacement DVD-Drive?
Anyone know where I can get a Namco System 256 (Tekken 5) replacement DVD-Drive?
I've been looking everywhere online and I can't find the exact same model... I was wondering if just any newer Toshiba DVD-ROM Drive will work?
Please let me know!
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Is it an IDE drive? Then yes.
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i think there is a driver issue when replacing the dvd drive,i am not sure if another toshiba will work o.k.i had a dvd drive go faulty on my time crisis 3 so i got a replacement from brent electronic(namco u.k) which cost a bit but worked perfectly.
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How much does a dvd-drive usually run? I just sent Brent Electronic an email earlier today asking for a price... hopefully they'll get back to me soon...
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Unless Brent Electronic is surprisingly inexpensive, I'd think it would be worth it to find a Toshiba drive with comparable specs and try it. It's sometimes shocking how cheap these things are anymore.
Can you find the specs for the stock drive?
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I've tried that... I've tested about 5 DVD-ROM drives with the same specs... no luck...
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I haven't tried another Toshiba drive yet though...
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namco lock the drivers to a specific device so you have to buy that device from their spares dept,its the same with konami-you should have seen the problems i had trying to get a graphics card for a wartran
in short what i am trying to say is don't muck around trying loads of different dvd drives because they ain't gonna work,just pay a little extra and get the correct one
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I was thinking about finding a variant of the same drive that might use the same driver. I'd only try one. Then again, even a drive with the exact same model number might have different firmware and not be compatible.
It's kind of funny you mention Konami. One reason I posted was that I recently got my Simpsons Bowling PCB running using an old Apple SCSI CD-ROM drive. Now if I could only figure out where the trackball connects to the PCB and find a cabinet I"d be set. From what I can tell, Konami likes to vary hardware greatly from game-to-game. I still think it's funny that DDR Supernova and a few other Bemani ARCADE games actually have a retail Playstation 2 in them.
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Now if I could only figure out where the trackball connects to the PCB and find a cabinet I"d be set.
Post a picture.
Likely it's five or six pins.
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Now if I could only figure out where the trackball connects to the PCB and find a cabinet I"d be set.
Post a picture.
Likely it's five or six pins.
I should rephrase. I'm assuming it connects to a 7-pin connector on the daughter card that's labeled "1P-SIDE". I don't know the pinouts to hook it up. Can't find a manual for download or sale anywhere.
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The trackball is connected to CN3, the pins are:
1) +5
2) XA
3) XB
4) YA
5) YB
6) GND
7) GND
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peale you are a bit of a geezer mate :applaud:
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The trackball is connected to CN3, the pins are:
1) +5
2) XA
3) XB
4) YA
5) YB
6) GND
7) GND
:applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Thank you so much! Now back to our regularly scheduled topic...
MarkMan, have you found out any more about the replacement drive? Did you hear back from Brent Electronic?
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Unfortunately they have not emailed me back yet :(
Anyone know anywhere else I might contact?