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STREET FIGHTER III CPS 3 help!!!!!
Ziggy:
Hi there, I need your help. I have CPS3 system main board, CDROM drive with CD and it's not working. When I plug it the only thing that shows are static lines. Blue and green stripes, there is no music or sound in general. It is not burn or broken (that I can see). The only thing i know is that the CD ROM spins, but I have no idea of what to do.
I checked the cables and the voltage and they seen good.
http://espanol.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ziggy_cj/detail?.dir=5247re2&.dnm=25e0re2.jpg&.src=ph
Have any of you have a similar problem or some idea of what's going on?
Q*Bert_OP:
R.I.P. SF3
suicide battries took yet another CPS3 sys. game :timebomb:
Dreamwriter:
What he's trying to say is that Capcom has this really annoying method of copy protection that guarantees that their games will eventually die. See, the games are encypted, and the key to decrypting the game is held in RAM, powered by a battery whenever the system isn't plugged in. If that battery should ever die, the game will be dead, as the RAM with the key in it will be cleared. It is possible that your CPS3's suicide battery has died, to which there is no way to fix it - it used to be you could send the dead board into Capcom and for like $50 they'd fix it for you, but I think their arcade division shut down.
unix4hire:
is the battery replaceable? My CPS works great, made me wonder if I could be proactive and swap out batteries beforehand. or is it an instananeous erase when the battery is removed? suck....
jfh2112:
http://cps2shock.retrogames.com/suicide.html
Handy article about replacing batteries on live and/or dead CPS2 boards. Don't know if it would apply to CPS3, but worth a look.
EDIT: CPS3-related here: http://cps2shock.retrogames.com/cps3/
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