Replacing sound chips - is it possible??

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barmskii
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Replacing sound chips - is it possible??

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I (knowingly) bought a boot of Batsugun and everything is fine except for the sound which is awful. Now I knew this would be the case and can live with it I guess, but I wondered whether it is possible to replace the sound chips with ones that have much better sound.

I know there is a website that will burn replacement roms although at the moment I can't remember what it is called.

I realise i'm probably weeing in the wind but just wondered if there was a way of making the music and sfx more bearable!!??

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Re: Replacing sound chips - is it possible??

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From what i know are Batsugun bootlegs using a totally different soundchip from the original.
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Quite possibly. I think it may be a chip made from cardboard and twigs based on the appaling sound in the game. I think its not even playing the right music!!
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toaplan og pcbs had encrypted sound chips so thats why toaplan boots always have bad sound.. no way round it i think.. it's **** you cant get batsugun ogs at the minute cos it's no good in mame either (no sound ) so apart from the saturn version we screwed :cry:
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I had no idea that this still had problems in Mame. I assumed that I had a duff rom.

Ah well you live & learn
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Try dumping your sound roms and comparing them to the bootleg dumps out there. Maybe one of the chips is corrupt or in the wrong socket.
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