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<\/a><\/p>\nToy Land Adventure – another for the Semicom collection, it’s a Bubble Booble type game with a cat which inflates and explodes the enemies, sometimes they bounce around causing other enemies to explode in a chain reaction but I’ve not worked out how to make that reliably happen.\u00a0 Rare but not one of their better efforts, default movement speed is way too slow for example.<\/p>\n
King Of Dynast Gear – this is actually a bootleg & port of Dyna Gears to dgPIX hardware, same mini board as Elfin, X-Files and so on.\u00a0 Some of the animations have been removed but aside from that it’s nearly identical.\u00a0 Funny thing is if you look for information on the net nobody seems to have noticed before, happily crediting it to ‘EZ Graphics’.<\/p>\n Omega – French bootleg of The End on a clone of Galaxian hardware, with slightly modified audio.\u00a0 Plays pretty well and at least you can easily buy ready made JAMMA adapters for that pinout.\u00a0 Arrived with one chip cracked in half but it was still functioning, never seen that before!<\/p>\n Pang Pang Car – modern clone of Rally-X, it’s by a company called Icarus and I’m not sure what country they’re from.<\/p>\n Diet Family – already have one of these (the one dumped for MAME) but this was cheap so I picked it up in case it was a different ROM versions.\u00a0 It wasn’t, I’ll probably sell one of them shortly.<\/p>\n Bomber – Alca clone of Scramble, although the hardware is quite a bit different.\u00a0 Sold as working and given the seller it probably is, but I haven’t made up the adapter yet.\u00a0 The wires and extra PCB seem to be something to do with changing the video levels.<\/p>\n Guardian Storm – partial kit, included the original box and marquee.\u00a0 This is a vertical version licensed by ‘Apples’ – I already have a strange German 2 board version but bought this to dump for MAME, turns out someone else very recently did the same thing.\u00a0 It didn’t work properly on my test rig, after needlessly replacing the LS245 chips on the inputs I eventually worked out that the wrong resistor packs have been fitted on these boards (confirmed by another owner).\u00a0 There are 104J packs on the LS245s and dip banks, if you want the inputs to be reliable you need to change them to 102Js as present on nearly every other game with similar inputs (including other Guardian Storms).<\/p>\n Cosmic Alien – Universal’s take on the Galaxian theme, this is an interesting PCB because it’s covered with factory wire hacks and carries the oldest versions of the game ROMs.\u00a0 Amazing analogue audio on these boards, something MAME just can’t capture.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n