+Propane13 Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I just played Food Fight today, and got an "Instant Replay" that can happen occasionally. What I didn't realize was if/when you lose the game and go back to the title screen, if you wait, the "attract mode" will show your most recent "Instant Replay" run. This is the first time I ever noticed that. Pretty clever use of resources, and a welcome surprise. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 I can't tell you what the games were, but I remember noticing similar behavior in some coin ops where the attract mode replays the most recent game played. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dauber Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Holy cow...that's it. When I go arcading on Saturday, I'm-a-payin' close attention to the attract mode plays... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 I've been thinking about this. I think one game may have been Atari Football, with those big trackballs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremiahjt Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Well thanks to this topic and Food Fight being the current game in the high score club, I got to see this too. Of course I was ready for it. I made sure I remembered what my replay looked like and watched for it during the attract mode. Pretty cool little feature. What is not a cool feature is there is no way to look at the high score and the score goes off the screen really quick after your last life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 49 minutes ago, jeremiahjt said: Well thanks to this topic and Food Fight being the current game in the high score club, I got to see this too. Of course I was ready for it. I made sure I remembered what my replay looked like and watched for it during the attract mode. Pretty cool little feature. What is not a cool feature is there is no way to look at the high score and the score goes off the screen really quick after your last life. It is because of that reason, that I was never able to feature the game in any of my classic tournaments during my little convention in the early 2000s. Although I think it might support the high score cart now that I think about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 2 hours ago, -^CrossBow^- said: It is because of that reason, that I was never able to feature the game in any of my classic tournaments during my little convention in the early 2000s. Although I think it might support the high score cart now that I think about it? It does indeed support the high score cart, if you can find one. The HSC functionality is also built into the CC2, if you can find one. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cousin Vinnie Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Thats a cool bit o info. Neat shizzzzzzzzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 44 minutes ago, Mitch said: It does indeed support the high score cart, if you can find one. The HSC functionality is also built into the CC2, if you can find one. Mitch Yes I own #100 of the original batch that Curt made. However, like most of them it doesn't actually work properly. It will work to save high scores on the current game you have connected to it but once you power off the console, all the scores are wiped. It also doesn't save any of the customization options and never has. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Yes, there was a bug in the original design that drained the battery very quickly. If you replace the battery it should work for a short time. Mitch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, Mitch said: Yes, there was a bug in the original design that drained the battery very quickly. If you replace the battery it should work for a short time. Mitch Nope... it just doesn't work. I even had @CPUWIZ take a gander as he was curious to check it out and he couldn't really find any reason for it not working either. Although he did have concerns over the pitch spacing between the contact fingers on the PCB edge. Curt had offered to replace it out with one of his newer NVRAM versions but I never got around to sending it back to him. Course... now... Anyway, I might look at it again in more detail sometime but there isn't anything really obvious as to why it doesn't actually save anything other than perhaps just a bad SRAM to begin with maybe? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Interesting, if you want to compare it to one of mine, let me know. Mitch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Curt's original version next to two HSC protos. I sent mine back to Curt for the fix and it now has minor rework on the back. I also have his NVRAM version somewhere but I couldn't find it right away. A bad SRAM chip is possible, do you have a chip tester? Mitch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Yes mine is the same as yours in the center top of that pic. Only mine doesn't have a label on the cartridge as it was the last one he had at the time so it came in an old red text combat cart shell with most of the label ripped off. I did have to replace the battery holder on mine as the original had broken, but it wasn't working before the holder broke and didn't after. Now that I think about it, the SRAM would have to be good since the cart does retain the high score table for the current game provided you don't power it down. Maybe I need to just hook up 3v directly to the SRAM sometime from my bench supply and see what happens between power off states. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmonyFM Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 Just popped it in to check and, I'll be damned. Didn't think the old girl had any surprises left for me to find but I guess we all learn something new every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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