RAIDEN

[Guitari]

Hello, this is my first forum - I'm a lynx collector (jag and 2600 to a less extent) I just got hold of a copy of Raiden from eBay (see attached), It doesnt work I did get a refund but I was wondering what could be wrong with it, its in perfect condition and no damage is evident. It just comes up as Insert Game on my lynx one and lynx two screens. I tried cleaning the contacts with a damp cloth but still no joy. I'm sure it's authentic.. it came with it's original plastic bag and instructions. I bought it in a lot with Kracy Ace, T-tris, and Bouble Trouble - those ones are all fine!! any ideas??!!

 

thanks

Guitari

[Guitari]

P.S I just read the forum entitled 'Raiden wont work on my lynx 2??' tried the eraser things etc. still no luck - i reckon its just dead

[holygrailvideogames.com]

If you want to send it to me I could test it out for you. If I can get it to work on my system I would be happy to buy it from you or I could just send it back to you. If I can't get it to work I will just send it back to you and you can assume that it is dead.

[l3ushwig]

Hello, this is my first forum - I'm a lynx collector (jag and 2600 to a less extent) I just got hold of a copy of Raiden from eBay (see attached), It doesnt work  I did get a refund but I was wondering what could be wrong with it, its in perfect condition and no damage is evident. It just comes up as Insert Game on my lynx one and lynx two screens. I tried cleaning the contacts with a damp cloth but still no joy. I'm sure it's authentic.. it came with it's original plastic bag and instructions. I bought it in a lot with Kracy Ace, T-tris, and Bouble Trouble - those ones are all fine!! any ideas??!!

 

thanks

Guitari

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Congrats you have one of the rarest games made for the lynx. Good luck getting it to work.

 

[davidcalgary29]

That's strange: it looks like you just have a bare board without the chip. I was going to suggest cleaning the card's contacts, but I don't think that that will work in this case.

[Guitari]

any chance anyone knows of anything I can try other than cleaning contacts and inserting it in different positions etc? !!!

 

thanks

guitari

[Mad Scientist]

That's strange: it looks like you just have a bare board without the chip. I was going to suggest cleaning the card's contacts, but I don't think that that will work in this case.

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That's actually the normal appearance for Raiden (and Fat Bobby) cartridges; there isn't an external chip.

 

I don't have any great tips on getting it to work, though. The eraser contact-cleaning would have been my suggestion. IIRC, these carts are a bit thicker than normal Lynx carts... I might expect that to give better contact in the cart slot, but perhaps it's just a matter of fitting differently. If you have a cleaning kit for your systems, you may want to scub the slot's contacts, as well.

-MadSci

Edited August 16, 2005 by Mad Scientist

[davidcalgary29]

That's strange: it looks like you just have a bare board without the chip. I was going to suggest cleaning the card's contacts, but I don't think that that will work in this case.

911613[/snapback]

 

 

That's actually the normal appearance for Raiden (and Fat Bobby) cartridges; there isn't an external chip.

 

I don't have any great tips on getting it to work, though. The eraser contact-cleaning would have been my suggestion. IIRC, these carts are a bit thicker than normal Lynx carts... I might expect that to give better contact in the cart slot, but perhaps it's just a matter of fitting differently. If you have a cleaning kit for your systems, you may want to scub the slot's contacts, as well.

-MadSci

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Perhaps Telegames had several iterations of Raiden. I bought mine one year ago directly from Telegames US, and can advise that it definitely has an external chip. The label is also different from that posted above; lettering is red (caps) and is subtitled "licensed from JTS". Lettering on the card states that it's "LGS Rev B...SEMAG 2002".

[Guitari]

thanks for your thoughts on this too guys... so it seems there's different cart styles for raiden too...mine appears to be 'black pcb' I never thought it would be any different from that but maybe if I'd got hold of a different incarantion of Raiden it mightve worked..i.e maybe my particular lynxes (1 and 2) dont like this particular shape... that said I got bouble trouble in this black pcb design and this works fine on both my lynxes... how confusing... its seems increasingly likely that this raiden cart of mine died a long long time ago... (late nineties!)

[Songbird]

Perhaps Telegames had several iterations of Raiden. I bought mine one year ago directly from Telegames US, and can advise that it definitely has an external chip. The label is also different from that posted above; lettering is red (caps) and is subtitled "licensed from JTS". Lettering on the card states that it's "LGS Rev B...SEMAG 2002".

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There are definitely two or more cart styles for each of the Telegames releases. Some of their "late Atari" releases like Krazy Ace came on a green PCB with DIP EPROM. And their initial "post-Atari" releases looked like the Raiden cart pictured above. These carts use a TSOP flash chip which has zero profile and is thus hidden under the label (but not sealed inside the cart like Atari-made Lynx carts were). And the current style of Telegames carts has the external PLCC OTPROM on a black PCB.

[Guitari]

I wonder if it might be worth a try removing the back label to see if that chip is damaged..

[+Zeptari]

This might sound foolish..

 

But can someone with the right equipment just reburn the game back onto the lynx cart?

 

Just wondering....

[Isgoed]

It does not sound foolish...

 

Maybe he can contact Telegames.uk and ask them to help him, or maybe they can give him a discount on a new Raiden cartridge