I think Meteor was based on the 70s disaster movie. Logo/title typeset matches. I have a blu ray copy of that I have not watched yet. Supposedly was a bit of a box office flop. I enjoy some of the other disaster movies like Towering Inferno and Poseiden Adventure tho.
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Zardoz is not crap, take it back! I watched it recently and found it to be fun movie.

I like bad movies for some reason so I will have to check out Meteor.

Seems so. Firepower silences out all the sounds before talking. System 11 is the first ones I can think of that talk on top of other sounds. I feel like they could do it in earlier WMS games unless there is some kind of hardware reason the PIA cannot control the speech stuff and the DAC at the same time.

Same with Stern but the speech is so low quality in Stern games its hard for me to understand what words are spoken so adding sound on top of that would really lose it. Like in lightning I can understand about every third word spoken.

I don't have much experience with the Stern speech card but the Bally speech chip varies chip to chip in regards to speech pitch. Some are more like darth vader others more like the chipmunks. Analogue stuff probably sensitive to small variances in capacitance and resistance much more so than digital.

The in limbo SB-100 replacement project Quench helped me incorporate a circuit to be able to trigger MP3s. That circuit could be chopped out of the SB100 to be stand alone way to get eight triggers (data bus) out of the an address through the J5 plug. Could apply the same idea to the lamp address/lamp data/lamp strobe 2 so not to get int the way of a SB300.

The factory soldering on that speech card is pretty bad. Zooming in around the chips it even looks like some of them are dry and possibly cracked. I'd inspect the board well. Double check the work around the 555 chip... like make sure no plated holes got ripped out when that chip was replaced. Previous rework is always on the top of the list of usual suspects.

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if you have any junker MPUs laying around there is a bunch of 470pF caps on it. The ones near MPU J1