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Is this as simple as it seems? Find a matching game that uses same boot chip and swap it over to a seemingly dead board? Or do the opposite and move the game ROM chip over to a board with a working boot chip?

Is there a way to test the pins of the current installed chip to verify if it is bad or not?

I believe that the boot chip I have is CIC-NUS-6102. It's for killer instinct gold. I've gotten three bad ones in a row now and i'm going to fix at least one of them. Can't have a flaky game in the collection :)

I figured someone here may have done this before.

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It's hard to hell what you're asking here; this sounds more like a hardware question than gaming. – fbueckert Aug 7 '12 at 3:47
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@fbueckert Questions about gaming hardware are on-topic here. – Wipqozn Aug 7 '12 at 10:09
Unless you have a good chip you have nothing to compare it too. I check to see if there are any shorts, the Ohm and Farads are all correct. – Ramhound Aug 7 '12 at 11:46
Are there infosheets about these chips out in the public domain? Since they are manufactured directly for Nintendo by Sharp I figured that this would be protected knowledge. In my googling's i've not found a datasheet yet. That would tell me what each pin does, where it routes inside the chip, and what the ohm values should be so I can check it. – TWood Sep 26 '12 at 22:01

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