02100: athena: Discrepancy in the duration of the attract mode against the pcb

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
02100		Minor	Always	Aug 8, 2008, 12:28	Aug 8, 2008, 16:53

Tester	Kold666	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To		Resolution	No change required	OS	Windows XP/Vista 32-bit
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	snk/mainsnk.cpp
Version	0.126u4	Fixed in Version		Build	Normal
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	02100: athena: Discrepancy in the duration of the attract mode against the pcb
Description	On the pcb the main character gets killed by the first enemy instead in mame you can see a very long attract mode. The clocks are verified and the romset in the same as mame.
Steps To Reproduce
Additional Information
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Flags	Verified with Original
Regression Version
Affected Sets / Systems	athena

Attached Files	Video003.3gp (165,976 bytes) Aug 8, 2008, 12:32

No.01997 Haze Senior Tester Aug 8, 2008, 12:38	checked the dipswitches etc.? made sure it's not a converted PCB? there are lots of reasons this can happen.. if the clock on the real PCB is even slightly off (0.01mhz) even it can throw the timings off, likewise video timings and anything else that could possible deteriorate. some games base the attract difficulty based on the dipswitches and don't compensate for it, others base it on an earlier version of the game, and it gets broken in later versions.. there are lots of reasons this can happen, but the fact that it works in MAME and not on the real PCB is suspicious, because it's usually the other way around...
No.01999 Tafoid Administrator Aug 8, 2008, 14:24 edited on: Aug 8, 2008, 14:25	Haze hit it on the head right off - it's a DIP setting. Setting the DIP to "HARD" or "HARDEST" in MAME and the player in attract mode dies the same way. If anything, this validates how right MAME is doing it now. Please validate this info on your PCB so we can close this out.
No.02000 Kold666 Developer Aug 8, 2008, 16:53	yes, i mistakenly put the dips in hard mode. Nevermind, it behaves like the pcb ;)