It sucks that the only way is probably reflashing the board, how about glitching it somehow? turning it off half way through a save and corrupting the eprom data? (I can't remember if its stored in eprom, flash or nvram on CV1000).
I'd bet my sexuality theres a hidden code to do it, you can demonstrate it on mame quite easily and make it re-init as if it was a new board, surely this can be performed on real hardware too.
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
Normal boot
![Image](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y278/parple/espgal2_0000.png)
Initialising on boot as if it was a new board
![Image](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y278/parple/espgal2_0001.png)
Cmon tech bods, someone must know something
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)