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I've got a early Naomi motherboard that is working apart from error 03 caused by a bad X76F100, usually I'd take one from a scrap board but the only scrap boards I have use the newer 93C46 eeprom. I ordered some X76F100 chips from China thinking I could just program the data from mame on one and solder it in place and be done. Once they arrived I quickly noticed my expensive programmer (Elnec Beeprog 2) doesn't support them though, and neither do any of the other programmers I own.

Plan B was to use the 'dev' bios from mame, this bios looks like it was originally used to repair boards but as nothing is ever simple I am not sure how to use it properly, anyone tried this before? or got documentation for this bios?

Some emulated screen shots of the bios I am talking about.
 

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For anyone that stumbles across this post looking for the same fix, I wasn't able to program the blanks I bought unfortunately (for now at least) but I found an old post by MetalliC that suggested taking the chip from a donor cartridge. I had one in the junk pile and can confirm this does work, I thought the one on the cartridge would be different to the one on the motherboard but apparently not. :thumbsup:
 
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