![]() ![]() ![]() This made it impossible to read the chips with a programmer and the pins were not solderable, even enough to hold them temporarily. Simply removing the chips from the sockets, no matter how carefully done, often broke several pins off of the chips. Inspection of the boards (CPU board and GPX board) revealed that many chips had rotten pins, typically caused by severe oxidation. ![]() More specifically, several pieces of the terrain and some bases were blocky. The biggest problem with Xevious when I purchased it was that many of the colors were incorrect. Seeing the "whole world" like this makes me imagine a version of the game where you could fly around all over the place fighting alien invaders wherever you like. I thought that a lot of the strips looked very similar so I used a paintshop program to put all of the pieces of the landscape together to form an overall map of the game's world. I recently found another Xevious web site where lots of screen shots had been arranged into 16 vertical strips showing the path that the Solvalou ship takes through the entire game. Before rambling on and on about my own Xevious machine, here's something else that Xevious players might find mildly interesting.
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