Asteroids in cocktail mode - button strangeness

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This is curious ........ Asteroids board (cocktail capable) that works
fine when flipped for player 2 BUT the hyperspace button won't work.
Said button works fine for player 1. Now given that the buttons are
all shared between both players, what would cause this? Player 2
*does* use a different ground wire that's connected to the grounded
'flip' wire, but no apparent faults here. All relevant diodes in the
wiring check out okay.

Any ideas please?


Thanks

 

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:02:43 GMT, max-man@hotmail.com (max-man) wrote:

>This is curious ........ Asteroids board (cocktail capable) that works
>fine when flipped for player 2 BUT the hyperspace button won't work.
>Said button works fine for player 1.

Sorry, didn't explain that properly - I meant that Hyperspace works
for player 1 and seeing as the Player 1 Hyperspace button is wired
okay to the Hyperspace button for Player 2 AND said button for player
2 is okay - well, that's the puzzle!

 

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Are you saying that Player 2's hyperspace button does not work during game
play? I can testify that said button will NOT work during self-test! Dunno
why this is, but it's the truth. I guess the self-test code just hops over
that particular button for some reason. But all other inputs respond okay
(you get a beep in the speaker).

 

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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:32:08 GMT, "Matt J. McCullar"
<mccullar@flash.net> wrote:

>Are you saying that Player 2's hyperspace button does not work during game
>play? I can testify that said button will NOT work during self-test! Dunno
>why this is, but it's the truth. I guess the self-test code just hops over
>that particular button for some reason. But all other inputs respond okay
>(you get a beep in the speaker).

I mean the button doesn't work in game mode.