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David Deturck

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Nov 30, 2003, 5:29:53 PM11/30/03
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Hello,

My scared stiff has following problem:

The sound has some static on it when playing. It's like certain sounds have little cracks. I disconnected the front speakers and
connected a completely other one and I think it stays the same.
I dit noticed it was mostly speech that isn't correct, most of the background music plays ok.

What I did see see is that one of the Sound ROMS (top one) lost it sticker covering the window (to protect from the light). I now
put a new one on it, but could it be that the Rom has gone bad and lost a little bit information?? Or should I first look
elsewhere?

Thank you,
David


Lloyd Olson

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Nov 30, 2003, 5:52:09 PM11/30/03
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For a start I'd reseat the sound board connectors, and where the board fastens
down to, be sure the solder pads, screws, and things it screws to is very
clean. Reseat any ROMs on the board too. LTG :)

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Ray Johnson - Action Pinball

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Nov 30, 2003, 6:13:22 PM11/30/03
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"David Deturck" wrote:
> My scared stiff has following problem:
>
> The sound has some static on it when playing. It's like certain sounds
have little cracks. I disconnected the front speakers and
> connected a completely other one and I think it stays the same.
> I dit noticed it was mostly speech that isn't correct, most of the
background music plays ok.

This is a fairly common complaint with Scared Stiff games. We've had nearly
a dozen come and go over the years and some have been better than others,
some worse, etc. My take is that the audio was recorded at too high of an
input level, so it had some distortion in it from the beginning. Typically
if you turn the volume up, it's more noticeable. Down, and it's less
noticeable. But still there nonetheless.

I almost recall someone having a solution or a fix for this though- maybe a
different type of speaker, or something- check www.google.com for past
newsgroup articles that might shed some more light.

> What I did see see is that one of the Sound ROMS (top one) lost it sticker
covering the window (to protect from the light). I now
> put a new one on it, but could it be that the Rom has gone bad and lost a
little bit information?? Or should I first look
> elsewhere?

If the data in one of the ROMs has gone bad, you will get more than one
"bong" at startup when you first turn your game on. And possibly a "sound
board interface error" message -something of that nature. If that's the
case, then yes- you probably need a new ROM chip(s), but I think what you
are hearing is just the normal way a Scared Stiff sounds.

Good luck!

--
Ray Johnson
Action Pinball & Amusement, LLC
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Web: www.actionpinball.com

We're serious about pinball. Anything else is just for fun!


Paul

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Nov 30, 2003, 6:24:53 PM11/30/03
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Did this to mine and fixed it!!! Static & Scratchy/Tinny
Sound on Early WPC-95 Games.
Early WPC-95 games (Sacred Stiff for example) have two capacitors
installed at locations C47 and C51 on the A/V board. These two
capacitors are located between chips U5/U6, and near connectors
J505/J504. With later WPC-95 games, these two capacitors were
*removed*. If an early WPC-95 game has some static noise or just thin
tinny scratchy sound, a good first step is to completely removed these
two capacitors. It doesn't cost anything to remove them, and often
provides a solution to the static.

Frank Bock

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Nov 30, 2003, 6:30:29 PM11/30/03
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You may want to try the following tip copied from the Marvin3m repair
guides. This worked for my SS static problem.


--
Frank Bock
fran...@comcast.net


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don & lesley merki

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Nov 30, 2003, 7:38:29 PM11/30/03
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in article Bbuyb.1432$447.18...@hebe.telenet-ops.be, David Deturck at
willy.det...@pandora.be wrote on 11/30/03 4:29 PM:

Have the caps been removed from the A/V board? Check Clay's site for
specifics.

Hassell Castle

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Nov 30, 2003, 9:42:57 PM11/30/03
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Agreed.....
Removed the caps from my A/V Board and the scratchy sound went away on
my SS. That is your resolve!

Craig


James

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Dec 1, 2003, 12:30:04 AM12/1/03
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> You may want to try the following tip copied from the Marvin3m repair
> guides. This worked for my SS static problem.
>
> Static & Scratchy/Tinny Sound on Early WPC-95 Games.
> Early WPC-95 games (Sacred Stiff for example) have two capacitors
> installed at locations C47 and C51 on the A/V board. These two capacitors
> are located between chips U5/U6, and near connectors J505/J504. With later
> WPC-95 games, these two capacitors were *removed*. If an early WPC-95 game
> has some static noise or just thin tinny scratchy sound, a good first step
> is to completely removed these two capacitors. It doesn't cost anything to
> remove them, and often provides a solution to the static.

This has worked for me also on a couple games, including SS. Very
easy, free and effective, how often does that happen?

David Deturck

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Dec 1, 2003, 1:16:20 AM12/1/03
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Thank you group for your input. I'll try this tonight and keep you posted on how it went!

Tanx a lot!
David


David Deturck

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Dec 1, 2003, 5:25:51 PM12/1/03
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Elvira says a big tanx to all who responded. Taking out the two capicators at C47 and C51 helped right away.

Now she can talk dirrty again...

Kind Regards,
David


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