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Crowquill:

--- Quote from: efjayel on February 15, 2007, 06:09:15 pm ---What's a "battery of death issue?" I've never heard of that. Enlighten me...

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Capcom CPS-2 and some other boards like Sega's System-16 include what is called a "suicide battery". Usually it was included to deter bootleggers. In the CPS-2's the actual game roms are encrypted. There is a seperate processor that decodes the roms so that they run properly. This is powered by a battery. When it dies, the main hardware can't read the encrypted ROMs and the game stops working.

More info here: http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html

The batteries can be replaced before they die, but once they do, your CPS-2 board is pretty much shot. I currently have a Shinobi PCB that has no sound due to it's dead battery.

madgammer:
That the same article I read.  Apparently there is a place you can send your boards and they replace the battery for you.  I have it in a note somewhere, but over the last week alone I have about 40 online articles, and 50 websites that I have been reading through so it may be a while before I can dig out the info. 

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