A few things to try to help isolate the problem:
- swapping the audio connections between left and right to see what happens (does the background audio get louder and the announcer get very quiet?)
- is your ribbon cable plugged in backward? this is a _very_ common problem, especially from users who are using merlin 8000 because the cable orientation (I'm pretty sure) is flipped. The ribbon cable should be on the side next to the scoreboard cable, NOT the side next to the dip switches.
- is the dip switch on the dragon's lair logic setup properly for the type of laserdisc player that the dragon's lair logic board supports? The dragon's lair logic board can only support either LD-V1000 or PR-7820 (not both). If your ribbon cable is plugged in properly, Dexter can auto-detect which mode that the logic board supports and then you can set the dip switch accordingly.
aapljack wrote:
I just got my Dexter and attempted to set it up last night in my Dragon's Lair cabinet. I was previously running an LD-V8000 with an original DL disc and a Merlin 8000. Everything was working fine.
I have never run this game with a LD-V1000, so I have never used the original ROM board or cable. I am using both of those to try and get the Dexter running before I get my Merlin card updated.
I have everything hooked up but when I turn on the game, I get a lot of static in the speakers and the traditional startup beeps. After the last beep, the video does not start.
The LD-V1000 is selected on the Dexter and if I cycle through the LD versions and come back to the LD-V1000 setting and the video starts. However, it just plays the disc. One channel of audio is very faint (music/sound effects) and the other channel is fine (speech).
I am wondering if my ribbon cable is bad or maybe the ROM board is bad. I do plan on upgrading the Merlin, I just don't have the chip yet. Could it be that once the Merlin is updated, my problems might be fixed?