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Gradius II Arcade - Full Run on Very Difficult (4/4) Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1= least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Gradius II board sets.Īt any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. And of these, 3 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 6 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. 9 of these machines are owned by our active Gradius II collectors. Uncommon - There are approximately 17 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. Census data currently includes 158,203 machines ( 6,663 unique titles). VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Gradius II CensusThere are 12,022 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,454 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. in any form, but was released in Europe under the title of IVulcan VentureI. MiscellaneousThis games full title is IGradius II Gofer No YabouI Gofers Ambitions. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures Type Within the Personal Impressions category, 'Like' carries a little more weight than the other factors. Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Gradius II - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 5.00 (1 vote) The game is divided into stages, each containing a boss that must be destroyed. The player chooses the desired power-up by collecting capsules until the required cell is lit on the menu. Other machines made by Konami during the time period Gradius II was produced include Crazy Cop, '88 Games, Akumajou Dracula, Contra (Pla圜hoice), Chequered Flag, Black Panther, Ajax, Battlantis, Boot Camp, and Blades Of Steel.Ī horizontal shooter where you control Vic Viper, a spaceship that increases its power by collecting capsules left by destroyed enemies. Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Gradius II was produced by Konami in 1988. Our Sponsors and Web Results Can Help You Set Up Your Ultimate Gameroom or Media Center:

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This fixed the board completely, no other issue were present.Evil Konami defeated again.The battle goes on. Probing around again with my logic comparator I found a 74LS74 with bad outputs, once removed it failed :

The one didn’t pass the out-of-circuit test failing in address 1073:įinally the board could properly boot and enter in game but with missing graphics and crashing after few seconds all the time : So a failure in them would explain the missing boot.Not being able to determine which chip was actually faulty, I desoldered both and added sockets: Launching the game on MAME I could figure out that these two RAMs are used by both the main and slave 68000 CPU : So I could concentrate exclusively on CPU board since I know the fault was there for sure.Probing the board with my oscilloscope I found some abnormal activity on a couple of 6264 RAM and 10G : Thanks to my friend Josef who sent me a good Gradius II boardset I could narrow the fault in the CPU board but, before knowing this, during my troubleshooting I found with my logic comparator a couple of faulty Fujitsu TTLs, a 74LS32 on video board and a 74LS157 on CPU board : After Lifeforce, another awesome Konami shoot ’em up on the bench, it’s the turn of Gradius II – GOFER no Yabou :īoth CPU and video board were in great shape but this is what I got once powered it up:īoard sat down on the above message and very rarely showed an ‘ADDRESS ERROR’ or ‘ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION’ message:

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