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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3DX+ Machine info, Info on components of WMMT 3DX+ cabinet
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QUOTE (Crow @ Apr 7 2015, 09:59 PM) | VERY interesting! I wonder how they managed to get a BIOS flash for that card... |
That person is me. I am an arcade operator and have access to surface mount rework tools and a ROM programmer. I have a pair of US-built cabs I painstakingly overhauled after getting completely ripped off when purchasing them... then repeatedly scammed afterwards when buying parts to fix it. I am running Japanese 3DX+ in both of them. Here's the VBIOS. You can write this to any 512K SOIC8 serial EEPROM and stick it on any AGP 7600GS 256MB as a replacement. It does NOT seem to work on 512mb cards or 7600GT cards, even though they're really the same. I don't know why this is. The chip you need to replace is U504. You can also just desolder U504 from a dead, original card and swap it on to a new card. https://mega.co.nz/#!Cg9hFabI!rIaSw...RPQnBd1eQzJDjbsI have dumps of the STR boards and the PC BIOS but I need to verify them first. And get ANY of my STR boards to work. The US and UK "Export" version of the game uses a different PC and use the MKGP STR ROM, whereas the Japan and Asia versions require the WMMT01 REVA ROM. I'll get into this later on. Interesting to hear about the CPU upgrade! I'll grab a 500w PSU and an Athlon XP 3200+ and give the game a try.
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QUOTE (2ZZ-GE @ Oct 26 2015, 08:08 PM) | Just wanted to add that USA Maximum Tune 3 versions can accept any version of the 7600gs.
I have used the following...
EVGA 7600GS 256mb XFX 7600GS 256mb and 512mb versions
Thing is you need excellent cooling or the game with lag during gameplay. Usually when this happened I would get a bulging capacitor. Simply replace the faulty capacitor and it works again perfectly.
When I run 3DX and 3DX+ both ASIA versions the game will not pass the first loop of the attract sequence when running these cards. I assume the cards need to run with the correct bios. The ASIA versions my local arcade has runs BIOS version 5.73.22.64 with 3DX+. Ill try and pull the binary file and upload it here for anyone. |
Flash the VBIOS ROM I posted and they should pass no problem.
I've been running my US cabs with the backs off, the tops of the N2 case off, and have added a Vantec Tornado fan to the case in addition to the stock one. They've been on location for months with no performance issues. I also replaced the caps with new Rubycons, which probably helped.
Also I've replaced the CPUs with the XP 3200+ and replaced the power supply to match. Didn't seem to help with performance much at all.
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QUOTE (weirdo808hi @ Yesterday, 1:24 PM) | It would be Version B, there have not been any other revisions as far as I know. It was either Version A or Version B of 3DX+. |
Mine are version B so good to know it's the latest rev.
Can anyone recommend any mods/upgrades to the N2 to help bulletproof it &/ or make it run better? I had to replace every cap on one of the N2 boards to get it to work. I have a pair of new Zalman copper GPU heatsinks on the way to replace the stock version on both video cards.
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People in this forum are more players, and not technicians so we wont know much about the inner workings of the machines, sorry.
As far as error goes, I never saw it in my days of the cab, you might need to contact the person who sold it to you
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QUOTE (Dare @ 5 hours, 12 minutes ago) | People in this forum are more players, and not technicians so we wont know much about the inner workings of the machines, sorry.
As far as error goes, I never saw it in my days of the cab, you might need to contact the person who sold it to you |
Sorry if I was spamming this thread a little but there's very little info anywhere about this gameboard & I see a few posters that are knowledgeable in regards to the game hardware in this thread.
As far as my reboot error goes, I will try what vash944 suggested. Thanks.
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QUOTE (weirdo808hi @ Dec 17 2015, 06:22 PM) | Please reboot to clear system means the CMOS battery is dead and needs to be replaced or charged by having the machine on. Once it has a fresh CR2032 in there the error should go away, if it still shows up after putting a new CR2032 in leave the machine on for about 20-30 mins then restart it and it should go away. |
Thanks for the advice, I will try that out. Just wanted to add some info about the N2 system that I have. The N2 is a bespoke variant of the MSI MS-6777 motherboard, MSI MS-6777I notice printed on the N2 motherboard there's a setting to select desktop or mobile CPU type. Both of my N2 boards are fitted with desktop version Athlon XP 2800+ CPUs rather than the mobile version as stated by others in this thread.
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QUOTE (Hinz @ Feb 17 2016, 04:32 PM) | Any news about dumps or wherever about this?
I see the dump of WMMT 3 on internet (7GB), but need the dongle to open info of the game. If we can change and remove the info of the game about protection, we can run in the PC with de Flash BIOS. |
Can anyone point me in the direction of any of these WMMT3 dumps? I have spare dongles for all 3x editions.
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