rom burners

[studley67]

what is involved with getting a rom burner,can anyone recomend one.i would like it to do early bally/stern,williams+newer stern/sega/data east,williams/bally.any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.

[Caveoftreasures]

Give Beaky a call tomorrow on 0755 29 8886. Or a PM. He has all the stuff and I reckon he could prob tell u where to buy one, and or what is the best one to get.

He does all mine for me.

[studley67]

thanx brett,but i would then be doing him out of business and johnwart

[Caveoftreasures]

Beaky woould be happy to tell u where to get one etc and which one. If he doesnt, I will BEND his arm for ya. lol 

u have alot of machines. it makes sense u have your own versus paying someone all the time. I will see beaky in the morn and sort it for ya 

[beaky]

Hi Mate

I use a cheap Willem Eprom programmer I bought off ebay. some people say that Willem's are cheap and nasty but they do the trick (except for some of the early bally sound roms).
I ordered mine from some place in Hong Kong (there are a few suppliers), it took a few weeks to get here but it was worth the wait for the cheaper price.

The  blank eproms aren't worth to much either, some times I am lucky to get NOS eproms but for some eproms it's nearly imposable to find NOS.

You will also need to buy your self a UV eraser, Again I bought mine from Hong Kong and paid around $15 for it.

[Homepin]

Williems require a little "technical nouse" IMO. I have many different programmers but have found this USB one the most universal and dead easy to use (it also runs on XP and Win7):

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/USB-G540-Universal-EPROM-FLASH-GAL-AVR-PIC-Programmer-/110624169936?pt=AU_B_I_Electrical_Test_Equipment&hash=item19c1b6dfd0

For an eraser most techs I know are using these now because they are cheap and very effective:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/UV-Eprom-Eraser-Erase-Ultraviolet-Light-Erasable-Timer-/180716945451?pt=AU_B_I_Electrical_Test_Equipment&hash=item2a1391c02b

With these two bits of gear for around $75 total you will be able to do all you want with ease

[studley67]

thanks guys

[studley67]

do you need special software?

[necroscope]

check out this vid of how easy the GQ-4x is to use

[Skybeaux]

The burner you buy will come with it's own software , and good software is important.
There's a lot of burners on the market today so do your homework before you purchase one to make sure it will do all the types of chips you want it to.
Some of the cheaper burners on the market claim to be able program the earlier 2716 type chips that require 25volts to program but i've been told they won't do them.
So what i'm saying is ask a lot of questions , and if you have a particular burner in mind ask about it on here to see if anyone else has one and what they think of it.

[Strangeways]

check out this vid of how easy the GQ-4x is to use

This is the ROM Burner I use. No trouble burning ROMs for older Bally / Stern / GTB games and newer Stern games. I used it to burn Viking ROMs and High Roller Casino ROMS - so it covers all bases and is cheap. I used to use the Willems Burner a few years ago, but it was fiddly and as Ken pointer out, was not good with 25V Eproms - so 2732A etc were hit and miss.

[necroscope]

check out this vid of how easy the GQ-4x is to use

This is the ROM Burner I use. No trouble burning ROMs for older Bally / Stern / GTB games and newer Stern games. I used it to burn Viking ROMs and High Roller Casino ROMS - so it covers all bases and is cheap. I used to use the Willems Burner a few years ago, but it was fiddly and as Ken pointer out, was not good with 25V Eproms - so 2732A etc were hit and miss.

I just bought one of them myself from http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp been using it to fix up some arcade pcb's and i have found i dont need a university degree to use it.

[Homepin]

University degree = educated idiot!