The game is working great, with one wrinkle. The board seems to not like voltage greater than around 4.7V, specifically the audio. As voltage is increased from 4.7V toward 5V, sound starts getting "scratchy". It gets worse in the 4.8V - 4.9V range, and above 4.9V, the problem progresses to outright incorrect samples playing. This is voltage, as measured at the eproms.
Jumpers are all correct and have been re-checked multiple times. The only jumpers I had to change for the conversion are 11 and 12. I also tried putting them back to their original state and sound samples are all screwy, so they definitely needed to be modified for the conversion.
I also added the wire from pin 9 of BGS-B3G to CN3 C13, and lifted pin 9 and that too is confirmed to be necessary. I thought possibly the routing of the jumper wire as you see in the picture below was causing interference as the wire routes past various components and pins. I tried re-routing it through one of the holes near BGS-B3G, and running it on the solder side of the board to CN3 C13 - no improvement.
I have tested on multiple known good power supplies - no change.
I have re-verified the eproms, and burnt new eproms for 11 and 12 - the issue persists with the new roms. I am using 27C322's for the mask rom replacements, and 27C010's for replacement roms 1 and 2.
I have tested with decrypted code and native code/encryption - the issue persists.
The owner of the board is not opposed to always running it at 4.7V, but I believe it has been confirmed that CPS2 may suffer from CPU cycle losses below 5V. Is that generally agreed to be true, or is it a non-issue and if the board works fine at 4.7V, then all is well?
What am I missing and/or doing wrong?
