{"id":1203,"date":"2014-09-02T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T22:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2015-01-26T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:11:44","slug":"new-arrivals-0209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"New arrivals 02\/09\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeps on getting weirder around here.<\/p>\n<p>Tricky Doc &#8211; unusual little platformer (sort of) by Tecfri, very rare.\u00a0 I had to replace a couple of chips but it&#8217;s fine now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tricky_doc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1202\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tricky_doc-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"0209_tricky_doc\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gaplus &#8211; Tecfri version, unique code which has now been dumped for MAME.\u00a0 It matches a Namco PCB almost entirely in layout but the makes of many parts are different (while all customs are proper Namco parts), and the numbering on the PCB is in a cool font I&#8217;ve only seen on Sidam boards before now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_gaplus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1201\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_gaplus-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"0209_tecfri_gaplus\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_gaplus-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_gaplus-768x591.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_gaplus.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Choplifter &#8211; another Tecfri licensed game, covered with Sega parts along with others you more usually find on European boards.\u00a0 It actually runs the exact same code as the normal Sega board.\u00a0 Sold with faulty sound, one leg of the sound ROM was out of the socket&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1199\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_a-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"0209_tecfri_choplifter_a\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_a-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_a-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_a.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Choplifter &#8211; since at the time I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d be able to fix the above, I got this from the same seller, works fine.\u00a0 Had a horrible sticker all across the labels but it mostly came off, still needs final cleaning really but I&#8217;m selling this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1200\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_tecfri_choplifter_b-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"0209_tecfri_choplifter_b\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mad Donna &#8211; gave up trying to fix my faulty one.\u00a0 Sort of Pac-Man, women appear between rounds.\u00a0 It&#8217;s fun for a few minutes but soon gets boring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_mad_donna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_mad_donna-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"0209_mad_donna\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_mad_donna-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_mad_donna-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_mad_donna.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard Times &#8211; slightly different version to the one I had already and in better condition despite the truly amateur replacement of a regulator.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty much Blood Bros with a prohibition reskin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_hard_times.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1197\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_hard_times-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"0209_hard_times\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_hard_times-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_hard_times-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_hard_times.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finest Hour &#8211; bought this because it came with better art than I had.\u00a0 It was sold as &#8216;junk&#8217; (tested and not working) and ended at a ludicrous price.\u00a0 Worked fine, all I did was replace a dented capacitor and that hadn&#8217;t actually failed.\u00a0 Selling the board I had already as this has better labels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_finest_hour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1196\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_finest_hour-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"0209_finest_hour\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_finest_hour-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_finest_hour-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_finest_hour.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantasia &#8211; yet another one.\u00a0 This PCB is very unusual and raises as many questions as it answers.\u00a0 A normal Fantasia board on the larger type PCB has four object ROMs in addition to the ones on this which I&#8217;ve been told are encrypted ones used for some animations.\u00a0 Aside from the code and the sprite ROM, these all match the old sets, but I can&#8217;t see a difference.\u00a0 Additionally the thing that looks like a mask ROM next to the sprite one &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t do anything.\u00a0 The OE line is never enabled, it&#8217;s shorted to 5v.\u00a0 Why is it even there?\u00a0 New Fantasia and Fantasy 95 also have this bizarre unused chip.\u00a0 From a comment in the existing MAME driver it seems someone once tried to dump them and found Terminator 2 data.\u00a0 I&#8217;m almost inclined to believe it like they just threw random spare chips in there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_fantasia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/0209_fantasia-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"0209_fantasia\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeps on getting weirder around here. Tricky Doc &#8211; unusual little platformer (sort of) by Tecfri, very rare.\u00a0 I had to replace a couple of chips but it&#8217;s fine now. Gaplus &#8211; Tecfri version, unique code which has now been dumped for MAME.\u00a0 It matches a Namco PCB almost entirely in layout but the makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}