Heya all, wondering if any BoP gurus can assist me, currently in the final stages of a complete BoP restoration / rebuild, and in testing the machine I have noticed do not appear to have any "abort abort" speech effect for an incomplete shot on the shuttle ramp.

Have just updated the game ROM to L-6 with anti ghost patch and diagnostic of sound version & sound chips appear to be "L-1".

I thought initially might be a switch issue as I can't seem to find any updates to the chips above this on my google searches, however going through the sound test menu, the "abort abort" speech effect is no where to be found, leading me to think this speech sample was not included in the sound chips I have.

Can anyone shed any light on this on what I need to do to fix or upgrade to get the complete speech package?

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just updating my own research here, can anyone confirm if U18 speech chip shown there on mine as
PA 1 is causing the problem? and needs to be updated to L1 like U14 and U15 chips?

Is the PA1 chip the prototype sound chip?

I just found these guys selling chips and appears there is a L1 version for U18 chip....

http://www.actionpinball.com/parts.php?item=ROMS196

ok thanks for that john, makes sense.

Still trying to work out why I am missing speech in the game then.....

Ok that is the next thing to try. Thankyou also for confirming not every sound is in the test menu, nice to know.

ok another update, I have confirmed the switch gate at the beginning of the shuttle ramp is detecting forward and reverse movement of the gate.

Ball going up creates the take off / rocket sound effect as it should, but it makes the same sound effect with the gate swinging the other way when the ball comes back down. Instead of the abort abort speech effect.

Does anyone know if I am missing a logic wire or something like that determines which sound effect the gate switch makes? Still trying to work out why it is not working as expected..

just got a game going and rolling ball through the gate or using my fingers to move it either way.

I get the appropriate sound effect for the ball going up the ramp, and the same sound effect for the gate going the other way....

Simulating ball travel as in game, activating the switch for ball going up ramp, no other switches activated, then moving the gate backwards as if rolled back down.

ok just thought i'd provide an update to anyone else interested or ever encountering this problem, got this resolved, turned out to be the P-1 stickered sound ROM had this speech missing.

Don't know if Williams produced the game with mismatched ROM's that way or it's somehow been swapped during it's lifetime, but that was the culprit.

Sound ROM's reburned with latest version and got my 'abort abort' speech on the shuttle ramp now. Happy days!