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I need help on fixing my Great White VLC. I am getting access battery low and no game just that error and out of order. Where can I find a smart battery and do I need a clear chip to get the game to work. Any help I can get will help. Thanks Robert

I have now had the machine in the menu mode but do not know how to get the game to come back. I can go through all the menus but don't know how to get it reset. Any help out there. This is a 8725 model machine After I exit menu it just goes to Temporarily out of order.

Ah VLC's....I had a few 8825's....hated them...
OK....first off...
DO NOT short or remove the battery or you will need to "Clear" it.
Carefully......jumper a good 3 volt battery across the one on the board. Restart the machine, it should come back to life. The battery can be a pair of "AA" cells in a holder,a 123A battery with wires soldered to it..ETC ETC....
Soldering to the + side is easy, get the ground side anywhere there is a ground plating on the board.
Once you do this, it will come up (hopefully). There are a few guys around here that can help you reset it, if thats where it all goes.

I had 2 of them, sold them locally and parted out the third.

Kirk

Hi New here and try to figure the site out, forgive me if I am not posting right :^)
I have a VLC Polly and roger that I cant seem to find any info on it was sitting for two years and the battery died I replace the battery and have a reset error I am guessing I need reset chip but I can seem to find any- Is there anyone here that can help ? I hate to part it out the game is real nice,
Thanks
Rob

Welcome to  :nlg-, Rob.

The VLC reset ("zero") chips are very hard to come by, and by design can not be copied.  You don't have your location set in your profile -- where are you located?  It's possible that someone near you may have access to the chip you need.  Also, there was one guy on here a while back offering the service of reseting boards -- you'd send your board to him, he'd reset it, and then send it back to you to put it back in your machine.

Thanks for the reply,
I am in NY, Do you remember who it was  that did the work? I would hate to part this out
Rob

Which model of VLC?
8724?
If 8724 need to know the number on the little pal chip in socket U35.
I can clear #150 boards.

Rob-

I just found a post of his -- his name on here is "Slot Docs" -- I think his real-life name is Buddy.  He listed a phone number in his post, too -- you may want to give it a shot.  See this post for what he wrote:
http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=399.msg5314#msg5314 (http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=399.msg5314#msg5314)

I will try that ram reset first thanks for the info. My pal chip number is 153-01 A4 @ U35 is this something you can do?

The #153 is the Colorado program.
I had Worldwide Gaming clear a #153 for me a while back,dont know if they still can do that.

I'd strongly suggest trying Slot Docs first -- I've had too many bad experiences with WWG.

Its been a long time since they cleared that board for me.Too bad to hear that WWG has gotten bad.

There are still a couple of good people there -- Karsten, one of their techs, comes to mind.  ...but some of the other people there aren't so great to deal with.

I think thats who I dealt with.

I e-mailed Karsten at WWG to see if he would clear a board with the #153 pal but he hasn't answered.  :205-
                                                                                                                                                            Dan

Hi
I Just pulled my Polly & Roger back out of storage and I am trying to see if there has been any head way on repairing this game ?
all the numbers of people are disconnected
My battries died and when replaced I have an out of service message
Thanks in advance
Rob