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Title: Arcade card issues
Post by: 780racer on December 04, 2015, 05:42:15 PM
Is the arcade card suppose to get like stupid hot after a few minutes of playing sapphire which has tons of graphical errors?

Having issues since getting my duo back from Thesteve.
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: ProfessorProfessorson on December 04, 2015, 05:47:45 PM
Maybe a little warm, sure, but not crazy hot. What kind of graphical errors?
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: EvilEvoIX on December 04, 2015, 05:55:18 PM
Not hot at all.
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: seieienbu on December 04, 2015, 06:02:17 PM
Quote from: 780racer on December 04, 2015, 05:42:15 PM
Is the arcade card suppose to get like stupid hot after a few minutes of playing sapphire which has tons of graphical errors?

Having issues since getting my duo back from Thesteve.

Curious, how about a couple of pics?
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: 780racer on December 04, 2015, 06:15:43 PM
It geta atupid hot. Waaaaaaay hotter than keith courage as a tester to make sure it was not the system doing it

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7YkJMIhDqmiVDN3RmU4Z3kxelE/view?usp=docslist_api
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: SignOfZeta on December 04, 2015, 07:04:12 PM
There is a short somewhere, methinks. I would not run it!
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: spenoza on December 05, 2015, 01:37:01 AM
Quote from: SignOfZeta on December 04, 2015, 07:04:12 PM
There is a short somewhere, methinks. I would not run it!

Yeah, sounds like wrong amounts of electrical current is going someplace it shouldn't.
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: 780racer on December 05, 2015, 03:22:05 PM
Welp. I thought I had a working arcade card. Seems I don't.


I assume when a hue card dies... Its game over for it.


Ill just have to go look for another arcade card for myself.
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: EvilEvoIX on December 05, 2015, 07:42:02 PM
Sorry to hear.  It's a minor financial hit $60 at most just eat it and move on.
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: seieienbu on December 08, 2015, 10:21:25 AM
Quote from: 780racer on December 05, 2015, 03:22:05 PM
Welp. I thought I had a working arcade card. Seems I don't.


I assume when a hue card dies... Its game over for it.


Ill just have to go look for another arcade card for myself.

Look on the bright side, now you can use your old Arcade Card as a super cool key-chain fob.
Title: Re: Arcade card issues
Post by: majors on December 09, 2015, 12:19:02 AM
Quote from: 780racer on December 05, 2015, 03:22:05 PM
Welp. I thought I had a working arcade card. Seems I don't.
I had a Duo that would not play well with the ACD. It had gone through a lot of repairs and mods over time, so I coughed it up to that. I tested the card on another Duo and it was fine, do not give up hope on the card.

When I would play Sapphire, I would be missing sprites, I'd only have large blank squares. Most of the backgrounds where missing also. I do not recall the card getting hot tho. At least you have 95% of the obey library! I ended up finding a cheap replacement Duo that works with the ACD and kept the troubled one as a spare for cons.