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Hi Jochem!
Ah, BRIX - I was the programmer of that game....well, some parts of that game, anyway. I did Cashanova, Sinbad 2000, Monopoly and Broker Street for Germany when I was at Mazooma. Many fun times visiting Germany to the arcades...mostly to the Reeperbahn in Hamburg
Nice! Although I'm not from Germany (I'm from the Netherlands) I can tell you that the Reeperbahn is definitely the place to be in Hamburg. Great to hear you are actually the guy that did the programming on my cabinet! I had a hard time fixing the Scorpion 4 MPU, almost half of the address and data bus traces were gone below from the battery down, so I had to re-wire all those. Apart from that I have replaced many diodes and some transistors which had suffered from the acid.
So a lot of work has gone in to it, and I would love to get to know the machine inside-out now, also from a software perspective. I'm already stepping through code in MFME (want to make a proper emulation if I ever get to that), but I get stuck on the VDAI-prompt, and the corresponding input (coin alarm on SC4) should be high to get past that. It does not seem to be mapped to a button in MFME so that's my first problem.
But back to my actual machine!
Anyway, to answer your questions. you can use the "SETTINGS MENUE". Put DIP 16 (on the Scorpion main board) to the ON position, and switch on the machine with the top door open.
Yes, I did already find that out. Also there is DIP 14 which seems to select DM (on) or Euro (off) and DIP10 which enables GSM (not present in my machine). The (UK) phonenumber that is hard-coded in EPROM is not in use anymore (no answer).
But in the EPROM I find strings that suggest I can set the number of points for different coins, enable multiple tokens, etcetera. All not available from the DIP16-menu. Even a simple NVR clear does not show up, although it can be found in the code. Is there a way to enter a manufacturers test? Unfortunately the BRIX manual wasn't in the cabinet and I cannot find it anywhere on the internet.
Ideally I would disable tokens altogether and have no limit for cash payout. The Germans seem to have had a law that forbid paying out more than you'd put in (in cash). In Holland we are used to actually be able to win cash, and I would really like that behaviour for this machine, since it's gonna be in my brother's home-bar for friends to enjoy.
The EPROM also contains strings referencing compensation data. Since many of these strings are in lower-case I imagine this data being accessed through the serial port or something, instead of showing up on alpha (always upper-case). I even saw strings containing options to login with a username and password. Any info on this?
