07823: nbanfl, nbagold: Watchdog reset after selecting "NFL Main Menu" or "NBA Main Menu" in their respective test menus.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
07823	DIP/Input	Trivial	Always	Dec 17, 2020, 15:02	Apr 15, 2022, 06:07

Tester	Hydreigon	View Status	Public	Platform	MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To	tedgreen	Resolution	Fixed	OS
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver	midway/vegas.cpp
Version	0.226	Fixed in Version	0.243	Build	64-bit
		Fixed in Git Commit	30ec2aa	Github Pull Request #	#9560

Summary	07823: nbanfl, nbagold: Watchdog reset after selecting "NFL Main Menu" or "NBA Main Menu" in their respective test menus.
Description	Both games have two separate test menus. If you enter one test menu and then switch to the other (either by selecting "NBA/NFL Main Menu" or exiting to a different game and entering test from that different game), the game will watchdog reset. This has always happened even before the game was marked as working (and for some reason doesn't happen on actual hardware).
Steps To Reproduce	Enter test menu and select "NFL Main Menu" (or "NBA Main Menu" for nbanfl DIP 1, Switch 8 is set to on).
Additional Information	There are multiple ways to reproduce this (as mentioned). In nbagold, NFL's test menu has to be accessed differently due to a bug on actual hardware where the game always boots into NBA Showtime rendering DIP 1, Switch 8 useless for this set only. Simply coin up and select NFL Blitz as the game and after Blitz is done loading, it's safe to enter its test menu. I fear the reason for this bug happening may come down to complex CPU related issues.
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Affected Sets / Systems	nbanfl, nbagold

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No.18278 Tafoid Administrator Dec 20, 2020, 11:07	Isn't this simply a case where the game selection dip is being honored as priority as it is supposedly a hardware switch (as opposed to a test mode software change)? This sounds like expected behavior to me.
No.18280 Hydreigon Tester Dec 20, 2020, 22:49	The game select dip determines what game the system boots into on startup. I've been told from a Blitz/Showtime owner that switching test menus between both games works as intended and doesn't reset the system. It also sucks I do have an Blitz/Showtime cab at an local arcade but with a non-working pcb sent for repairs. I hope the owner can email the repair person the status so we can get the cab fully working. A video reference would be nice.
No.18295 tedgreen Developer Dec 29, 2020, 17:17	This is a known issue with the MIPS3 DRC and is related to commit https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/7016f2a641fad989b55cb867f0610ea8923c0b00 . There is no reasonable solution available yet.