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Beavis and Butthead Arcade on Ebay, was this PCB ever dumped?

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TOK:


--- Quote from: crashwg on April 25, 2011, 05:19:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: scream1973 on April 25, 2011, 04:37:23 pm ---How is the board broken when he states in the auction - "In terms of playability, the game resets at random sometimes but is playable all the way through the game"

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I think most people would call random resets broken...

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I thought this had to do with the game not being complete, not a physical issue. I didn't read this guys auction, just going by what I read about the game in the past.


LeedsFan:

The machine up for auction looks nothing like the machine in the video clip. The vid clip cabinet has side art and the CP is a metal one piece affair like Robotron with art that goes over the front. Machine up for auction is a nice build... but it's just a home made thing and simply not worth that price tag. Marquee looks a little different too (vid marquee seems to have a copyright notice that's not on the auction cab)

EDIT:   Just watched the second linked video and the CP is completely different.  Strange....  The way the cabinet profile thins out and goes straight up at the marquee area is not copied at all on the cab that's up for auction.

mrclean:

I figured it was worth a shot... I did send the eBay user a message:

"Dear gametimevault,

Being that this game is rare, you should contact the Guru, and loan him the PCB so he can have it dumped properly to preserve the game and also have it readily available for everyone else to enjoy in MAME.

http://guru.mameworld.info/comments.html"

he responded;

"How about you or someone else purchase it and do that?

- gametimevault"


Xiaou2:

Why would you expect anything otherwise?

 Dumping roms is no guarantee that the game will fire back up.  Sometimes the act of dumping them can damage them... and since he wants to recover the investment, he will let someone else decide if its worth the risks.

 Not to mention, Guru isnt even on the map.  Meaning, you will get a PO box. No phone number, no home address. No guarantee that you will ever get your stuff back, even if it worked afterwords.. and no way to sue/prosecute him for stole goods... or goods that have sat on a shelf for 4 yrs.  And... some games need to be trojanned, chips decapped..etc.

Get 900 people together at 5$ a pop, and your all set.



Donkbaca:

I wouldn't spend 5 bucks for that game  :dunno

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