Aruze innovator error

[Chuck spurlock]

Hi,

Is there anyone here that may be able to steer me in the right direction, I was playing it early in the morning and then shut it off came back later to play and got this error (see pic)

[Slotman]

The Game Compact Flash isn't validating at boot up.
Reseat both cards in the Gmem cassette and restart.
The CF is on its way out and they are a special type made by TDK

[Chuck spurlock]

yes i've reset them over and over,also i changed the gmem card and it worked for about 2 days and back to the error, thanks for the help

[Slotman]

The best thing to do at this point is clone the card before it gets too bad.
You may find that after restarting a few times the game will boot.
Those CF card have a small software (GBDRIVER) that has some type of redundancy to provide good data and I think that is where the problem lies.
I tried getting a CRC or SHA hash from a card one time and every time I read the card there was a different hash.

If you have another 1GB compact flash by Aruze I would try and clone the one that is giving you problems to the good one.  I have done that and it has worked flawlessly after.

[Chuck spurlock]

okay I appreciate all your advise and help, I don't know if it's a coincidence but I pulled the gmem card took it to the garage pulled the 2 cards and blew the sockets and pins out and put it back in the machine and it happened to fire up and is still booting every time i turn it on, I am going to do as you suggested before it's too far gone,

thanks again

Chuck

[Slotman]

okay I appreciate all your advise and help, I don't know if it's a coincidence but I pulled the gmem card took it to the garage pulled the 2 cards and blew the sockets and pins out and put it back in the machine and it happened to fire up and is still booting every time i turn it on, I am going to do as you suggested before it's too far gone,

thanks again

Chuck

At least make a .VHD of it now even if you cant find a spare CF card and than you will have a good backup.