Lady Bug High Score Save Patch

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The easiest boards for this patch are the later Universal single boards (8106-II) or the bootlegs which seem to be copies of this board as you will just need to replace the 6116 at 2NP (next to the 2 sprite roms) with an NV version such as DS1220, M48Z02, U63716DC etc.

If you have a Universal twin board version it may still be possible, in theory you would need to replace the 2114's at L3 (D0-D3), M3 (D4-D7), N3 (D0-D3) & P3 (D4-D7) with a 6116 NV equivalent as I don't think an NV version of the 2114 exists. You could just replace the ones at N3 & P3 as long as you tie off the upper adress line of the 6116. I don't have access to a twin board version so if you try this please reply with how you get on.

** UPDATE - Forgot to mention this **

To reset the high score table hold down 1 & 2 player start buttons when powering the board up.

As with all my High Score Patches, please post a reply or click thanks if you find this patch works for you.

l1.c4 or lb1a.cpu or lb1b.cpu

Code:
[b]02E0: change these bytes  0A 03  to  20 5F[/b]

l6.k4 or lb6a.cpu or lb6b.cpu

Code:
[b]0397: change these bytes  52 5D  to  76 5F[/b]

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[b]0807: change this byte  10  to  0F[/b]

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[b]081F: change this byte  10  to  0F[/b]

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[b]These bytes should all be FF before you changes them.[/b]

[b]0F20: CD 0A 03 3A 00 90 E6 60 20 03 CD 54 5F 11 7C 5F[/b]

[b]0F30: 21 60 6F 06 10 1A BE 20 1B 13 23 10 F8 21 70 6F[/b]

[b]0F40: 11 73 60 01 1B 00 ED B0 21 90 6F 11 80 D3 01 6D[/b]

[b]0F50: 00 ED B0 C9 21 7C 5F 11 60 6F 01 10 00 ED B0 21[/b]

[b]0F60: 73 60 11 70 6F 01 1B 00 ED B0 21 80 D3 11 90 6F[/b]

[b]0F70: 01 6D 00 ED B0 C9 CD 52 5D C3 5F 5F 47 41 44 47[/b]

[b]0F80: 45 54 46 52 45 41 4B 32 30 31 37 DE[/b]

Note: If your board is like mine and has 2764 roms for the code you will find that rom1 is l1.c4+l2.d4 and rom3 is l5.j4+l6.k4 so you will have to add $1000 to the offsets for l6.k4

GadgetFreak2017-04-03 00:46:39
 

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Would this work for universal space panic? single board apart from the small sound board?

Code:
Space Panic                   Oct,1980   Z80  #8015

Thanks Ronnie
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Ronnie Dent said:
Would this work for universal space panic? single board apart from the small sound board?

The patch is specific to Lady Bug's memory layout and code. I could probably do one for Space Panic but replacing some of the ram would be more difficult as it does not use 24 pin 6116 type static ram.
 

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Has someone done this and can upload the rom?, so I can burn it for my wall mount Ladybug.

I have no clue how to edit sexy hex or whatever it's called...
 

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Most Eprom Programming software have a buffer editing option which allows you to edit the hexadecimal bytes in the eprom. Typing my patches in though is a bit 80's. I am finishing off a patching program but I'm not completely happy with it yet. PM Sent.
 

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Gadgetfreak kindly edited my roms for me and I burnt them tonight and installed a Dallas chip in place of a 6116 ram and the mod worked like a charm!

I now have FREEPLAY which cycles thru attract mode and my Hi Scores are now saved, with names / initials.

EXCELLENT WORK, GADGETFREAK!!!
 
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