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| fccHandler |
 Posted: Apr 3 2004, 07:05 PM |
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This is so off-topic I hesitate to post it, but what the heck. At the cinema where I work we have the arcade version of Dead or Alive 2. One afternoon last week we were hit with some short power outages, and ever since then the game refuses to boot up. The "Naomi" logo appears on screen, then the cryptic message:
ERROR 03
BOARD MALFUNCTIONING
I fear this is machine-speak for "your board is toast," but so far I haven't found anything helpful on the web. I know it's a long shot, but does anyone here have experience troubleshooting this sort of thing? (The game is made by Capcom, BTW.)
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Apr 5 2004, 06:25 PM |
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I finally found a Naomi service manual, and ERROR 03 means the boot ROM can't read the serial number from the main board. (In other words, it's toast.)
I've sent the Naomi unit to a tech in Florida who may be able to fix it. Say a prayer for Kasumi et al. 
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| phaeron |
| Posted: Apr 6 2004, 06:27 AM |
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Ah, Dead or Alive, the series famous for its interesting use of simulated physics....
I've heard that some arcade boards have nasty circuits that keep critical information in low-power static RAM, and if you attempt to tamper with the circuit (i.e. read out the data) or don't replace the battery in time, the data drops out and the board stops working. Replacing the battery is reportedly interesting -- you have to solder a new one in parallel before pulling the old one.
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Apr 6 2004, 07:18 AM |
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I did take out the battery to check it with a voltmeter (it was fine), then I put it back in, but I still got ERROR 03. I even tried booting without the DOA2 game ROM, which (according to the service manual) should have brought up ERROR 01. Nope, still ERROR 03.
Soon after I posted here, I decided I'd better give up. I think I had become obsessed, and I was beginning to have weird nightmares about ERROR 03 popping up in other aspects of my daily life.
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| fccHandler |
| Posted: Apr 15 2004, 05:59 AM |
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My precious DOA2 has returned (hooray!) and it works. 
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