Okay guys, maybe you can help me.
A while ago, about a year now, I had the darksoft mod done to my CPS3 Third Strike cart after it decided to grenade itself. I received the cart and burnt CD from Mitsurugi I believe, and as I was moving at the time, just left it in its box. Now that Im setting up my arcade stuff again, I went to plug it all back up and it wont play at all. It just came up with a garbled graphic on the screen. So I took it out of the cab and made myself a mini supergun/test bench tonight to trouble shoot the problem.
The same thing happens. No sound, just a screwed up graphic on the screen like a dusty nes cart. I reseated the SIMMS a whole bunch and even tried my other CPS3 mobo, I have two total and the other one results in "no signal" being displayed on my vga monitor from my encoder. Ive heard the OG SCUSI CD drives go bad but mine powers on, opens and closes and spins, so Im assuming its not that. So Im at a total loss.
Here are some pics of my setup and the two boards;
The other board: