Quoted from ctozzi:Quick question here am I reusing the 10.0 rom as well as the 2 new ones ?
The writeup has it as step 3, since i'm new, the old 10.0 that got replaced with the 10.02 goes behind the dmd and replaces another chip ? Sorry just want to be clear.
1) Install the new PAL chip in your machine. It replaces the chip in the CPU board directly to the left of your game ROM.
2) Install your new 10.02 game rom into your machine.
3) Install display ROM 10.0 into your DMD controller board on the back side of the DMD. You must run the 10.0 display ROM along with the 10.0 or 10.02 code.
There are 4 different chip sets in a whitestar machine that run the code.
There is the CPU chip located on the cpu board. The major version in this case 10.x must match the display chip which is located on the dmd driver board.
DMD chip.
Sound chips. typically these do not change version to version. Not aware of any sterns that do except maybe proto software.
Pal Chip, located on the cpu board. All Whitestar games from Apollo 13 to Sopranos used the same pal chip except two.
One was sharkeys shootout. It was originally designed under sega as golden cue, a spinoff of golden tee and was supposed to have internet capability. when stern made it into sharky's shootout they didn't include internet, but left the pal chip.
The other is LOTR LE. All LE's used a SAM driverboard, but retained the whitestar cpu, power board, and dmd driver board. There really isn't much of an upgrade the way they did it. The pal chip has to be changed in order to get the game to accept 10.x roms which were for the LE only. All LE's supposedly shipped with 10.2, at least that is what I have read. If you did have 10.00 roms you would only need to upgrade the cpu to 10.2 as it is minor revision and not a major. (Major would be 11.x)
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