Crashing game. Game woud start attract mode, but shortly after would crash and boot loop. Entering test mode (hold player 1 start button whilst switching on) and it would pass first time around, but fail at random addresses on subsequent runs. The /WAIT signal on the main Z80 is handled by the IC at E2 on the board, which has the ID sanded off (as does several other chips), however the schematics for the other games (Mr Do’s Castle), and the silk print on the PCB show this as being a 74LS01 – replacing this with a new 74LS01 fixed the problem. (incidentally, it has to be a 74LS01 as it wire-ORs three of the outputs together.
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