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USAAF Mustang – sold to me as having a sound fault, and it’s all fixed now but there are a few points to make.\u00a0 Firstly, it’s a World sold board, but the ROMs are identical to Japan, it IS original but it was assembled in Korea.\u00a0 Secondly, if you don’t know how to at least make an educated guess about faults then please don’t try to fix them.\u00a0 I had to do a bit of tidying up of someone else’s repair work, refit the correct capacitors and so on, luckily I had my JP one to compare with.\u00a0 Thirdly, if you’re going to sell NEW working OKI sound chips, don’t send people a tray of busted ones.\u00a0 The reason it has a jumper wire now to an OKI is one of the pads gave up when I removed the second replacement in a row.\u00a0 Eventually I put one in salvaged from a Bad Dudes with broken graphics.\u00a0 Worked perfectly then…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Steel Force – strange Spanish overhead sci-fi maze shooter, it reminds me a bit of an Amiga game in style, Alien Breed for example.\u00a0 Pretty obscure, not brilliant – the time limit stops you looking around at all the detail in the stages.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tourvision + 3 games – this time we have Son Son II, Dragon Spirit and Daisenpu.\u00a0 If you don’t know, this is literally a PC Engine motherboard stripped and fitted to a timer based cart system.\u00a0 Pretty sure they didn’t have a license to do this and there’s no WAY they had a license for the 80 or so games we’ve discovered so far.\u00a0 I’ve got a crate of carts coming in early next year which will all get dumped and added to MAME, but it’s worth noting they’re all so far identical to the normal PCE carts.\u00a0 Nice to have RGB PC Engine gaming in a cab though.\u00a0 If you remember to keep the coins topped up anyway…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ninja Kids – it was cheap and I wanted to cut the postage down on Devil World, really that’s why I bought it.\u00a0 It was sold at working but arrived with graphics faults and damaged audio capacitors as a result of shitty packaging.\u00a0 It’s all good now, I’ll be selling it.\u00a0 NK is a decent enough game but the style doesn’t appeal to me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Miss World ’96 (set B) – for a long time based on an operator manual, it’s been expected that different picture sets exist for at least some Comad games, from A to C with A being the naked stuff and C being swimsuits.\u00a0 Finally proven this to be true, since this appears to have some different pictures to the sets in MAME, and has a C-3000B sticker, while my old one has C-3000A.\u00a0 I’ve dumped it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mister & Miss World – Comad, again with the exact same game and minor changes.\u00a0 This one is somewhat unique in that it offers men or women to uncover.\u00a0 Another game sold as working but wasn’t – graphical issue affecting text colours and effects but after quite a while spent diagnosing, it’s fixed now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Las Vegas Girl – arrived broken due to socket corrosion…\u00a0 It’s sort of like Columns, a bit, but with a 10 second long music loop.\u00a0 Actually the game itself isn’t too bad but suffers from taking a very, very long time to get going.\u00a0 I should see if it can be dipped to hard mode.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Glass – well this one is unusual.\u00a0 Glass is a sort of screen shooter \/ clearing game by Gaelco (with women and men), and normally you’d expect to see a plastic cover in the middle containing a Dallas security chip and a battery, since they all suicide.\u00a0 This one appears to be made for the Korean market and licensed to Promat, the girl pictures have been changed to anime ones and the introduction women between rounds are censored.\u00a0 On normal versions that’s dip controlled, on this it was totally disabled.\u00a0 Of course the really obviously strange thing is the security stuff is totally missing, never been populated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Glass (1.1) – and here’s why the above discovery was so important.\u00a0 This is a normal Glass PCB, version 1.1 which the Korean one was based on.\u00a0 While it appeared to be working, actually in-game some strange things were happening with sprite location and wrong bits of the screen being cleared.\u00a0 Using the Korean ROMs to bypass the security, it showed the suicide has begun since the game then ran perfectly.\u00a0 The security is complex on these and hooks into all manner of routines, so a corrupted SRAM attached to the Dallas can cause all kinds of strange errors.\u00a0 You can desuicide these by just dropping the Korean ROMs in but you have to change the chip with the girl graphics and accept censorship too.\u00a0 Or at least you did, until Haze hacked the Korean set to re-enable the dip and allow use of the standard picture ROMs \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Sadly 1.0 may end up being lost to time unless people are doing successful battery swaps.\u00a0 My attempt failed, don’t even disconnect it while under power.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hard Head 2 (bootleg) – well, I need to have some way to play the game when my SuNA one inevitably suicides.\u00a0 It seems like nobody is going to defeat those security blocks anytime soon..\u00a0 This plays\/looks\/sounds perfect compared to the normal PCB, unsurprising since aside from the replaced protection area, the board is a straight clone.\u00a0 I got two of these actually, I’m hoping there may be some way to read the MCU they’ve used.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Devil World – Konami decided they wanted a slice of Gauntlet pie.\u00a0 Known as Majuu no Ohkoku in Japan and Dark Adventure in the US, it’s a slightly glitchy odd game to play but I really like it for some reason.\u00a0 They’re getting hard to find due to people converting them into Vulcan Venture now,\u00a0 I picked this up for a fantastic price, it sure as hell isn’t getting converted.\u00a0 The US version actually supports 3 players and has many more stages, but it does this through repetition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Double Dragon 2 (bootleg) – big, ugly, and I bought it purely to dump.\u00a0 It’s for sale cheap now, the actual game is just like a real one including audio for a change.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carket Ball – by Semicom, my existing one was a ROM swap repair using one of the Cookie & Bibi games, I bought this to replace it.\u00a0 It’s a video pool game with poker elements and some decent presentation, but the ball physics feel dead.\u00a0 Real Break still king in this genre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Acrobat Mission – this was my Christmas present to myself, I’ve been really getting into this game on MAME and wanted to play it on the cab instead \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Gameplay is slightly weird, graphics are slightly weird, audio is very weird but pretty catchy with it – and it’s full of little UPL related bonus items if you can work out how to trigger them.\u00a0 I’ve found secrets hidden all over the place including a little Robo-kid which appears from an asteroid and 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