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R-Shark – replacement for my Korean one.\u00a0 Actually as a statement that’s pretty ridiculous since they’re all Korean, but this is one of the earlier boards with all socketed ROMs and nicer labels than the one I had before (which is now up for sale).\u00a0 Pretty awesome game really, very nice looking and I’ve now found out what the MYSTERY THIRD BUTTON does courtesy of Emuser.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n The Last Day – this is the World release of D-Day, one of Dooyongs first attempts at making a shmup.\u00a0 It’s not bad really, pretty difficult due to high bullet speed.\u00a0 Quite a rare game and I found this pretty cheap.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mr Kicker – more Semicom goodness!\u00a0 Also this is (well, was) an undumped revision which we’d been looking for.\u00a0 I got offered it by a sales contact along with a game I was buying from him through ebay.\u00a0 It’s a fun little maze game where you can kick a ball around to collect items or kill enemies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paradise – Escape license.\u00a0 Another one missing from MAME until now, only found out after buying it to replace my old one.\u00a0 Seems to be the same as the other versions aside from an improved slot machine animation during girl select.\u00a0 I also found out my old one was missing from MAME too….<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mirax – strange old 3d crosshair shooter from Current Technology, reminds me of Exerion.\u00a0 Not sure how rare it is but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before.\u00a0 That while block is some kind of epoxy covered effort at security, but I don’t think it contains a battery – it would have been long dead by now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last Duel – took a while to arrive since it was initially sent to the wrong country, then back to Japan and out to me!\u00a0 Arrived with a sound fault too and given the seller I’m quite disappointed that they didn’t realise – if those small caps near the op-amps get damaged you can lose sound channels.\u00a0 On to the game, this one always struck me as Capcom having come up with the engine for LED Storm, and then not really knowing what else to do with it – the reality is that Last Duel came out first though.\u00a0 The game alternates between bike\/road stages which look very, very similar to LED Storm, and some fairly solid but unspectacular shooter stages with a ship.\u00a0 Strange game.\u00a0 Came with original art which is nice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mad Motor – this one is a real rarity.\u00a0 It’s a borderline terrible scrolling Road Rash type game from Mitchell.\u00a0 The collision detection is strange, you often get bounced around like a pinball or launched into the air for no reason.\u00a0 When low on health you turn into a demon creature and your bike turns into a DEMON TRIKE.\u00a0 The game makes no sense at all.\u00a0 Unfortunately I had to do quite a bit of cleaning and coating to resolve some mostly ignored corrosion on a few of the SMT chips.\u00a0 Seems solid now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hook – found this cheap on a forum with a sync issue.\u00a0 Arrived and sure enough, that’s a sync issue.\u00a0 Actually the PCB was in pretty bad condition, I’m surprised the seller didn’t mention the fact that one of the chips had been replaced and resoldered seemingly with a blow torch.\u00a0 Someone had also previously tried to fix the sync problem and due to being fully loaded with Irem Deathcaps, the sound section and edge connector could have been better.\u00a0 I sacrificed a Major Title 2 to fix it and bring the condition up to scratch.\u00a0 Moving the license seal to the new top board was a challenge but it came out pretty well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Golden Axe – been without one for too long – it’s a US version without suicide which is IMO the best type to own.\u00a0 Quite nice condition aside from a badly damaged capacitor near the amp which made the sound crunchy, it’s all good now.\u00a0 All correct labels.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gyruss – I’ve had a Centuri Gyruss (only difference is 3 ROMs, they’re all made by Konami anyway) for quite a long time, but it had always had an intermittent reset\/crash problem which I never managed to track down.\u00a0 I bought this so I could replace it and help to diagnose the problem.\u00a0 Nice to find the mono sound connector included, that’s actually fairly uncommon since most cab supplied ones in the west were in stereo cabinets and didn’t come with them.\u00a0 I managed to fix my old one too as a result so that’s up for sale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dark Seal 2 – followup to the isometric dungeon crawling original.\u00a0 They turned everything up a notch for the sequel but honestly I think the first game just feels ‘cleaner’ visually and to play.\u00a0 Board arrived in stunning condition, didn’t even need to dust it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fighting Layer – one of the early polygon people fighters, this time from Arika on Namco hardware.\u00a0 It’s quite interesting to play but honestly I think Dead Or Alive did it better.\u00a0 I’ll probably get burned at the stake for saying that.\u00a0 Whatever, I’m a DOA fan.\u00a0 Suck it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cookie & Bibi’s 3 – good old Semicom.\u00a0 Clone a good game and what do we do?\u00a0 Make sequels!\u00a0 It’s Puzzle Bobble with squirrels basically.\u00a0 This board is in … terrible condition, the tracks are mostly corroded through the solder mask and there are still some rusty components I need to replace.\u00a0 Sadly it’s also quite uncommon, not like I could buy an alternative one.\u00a0 In fact the edge connector had been sanded down to copper so I had to solder-replate it.\u00a0 Not ideal but it’s better than exposed copper.\u00a0 If you have to do this ever, make sure you have a fume extractor on your bench.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blast Off – now I own all the Namco System 1 games I wanted!\u00a0 Hard to find because it only came out in Japan, this is a sort of sequel to Bosconian, while being absolutely nothing like it at the same time.\u00a0 I prefer Bosconian as a game, but the arcade version of that always felt like a let down because I’d grown up with the music from the Spectrum 128K version, which was catchy and amazing – look it up on YouTube!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n