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Any way to keep accurate date/time in WPC games?

By Paul_from_Gilroy

3 years ago



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#1 3 years ago

I've noticed that my WPC games fail to keep accurate date and time even with good, externally mounted batteries. Date/time gets out-of-whack even though settings and high scores are retained just fine. I looked into totally replacing the batteries with an NVRAM module, but apparently that wouldn't help (because, in WPC games, the NVRAM module doesn't update the real-time clock when the machine is powered off).

Is there a solution out there... a way to keep the real time clock accurate in a game like Twilight Zone, where you sorta want an accurate clock?

#4 3 years ago

Interestingly, the time drifts a little, but the date goes way off. I wonder if the code properly handled the new millennium.

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