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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: tommy on February 07, 2005, 03:52:20 pm

Title: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 07, 2005, 03:52:20 pm
where can i find roms for my pcbs that have bad roms not to emulate but a rom in hand
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: Hoagie_one on February 07, 2005, 03:52:49 pm
www.google.com
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: pointdablame on February 07, 2005, 03:56:30 pm
if you have a reader/writer, I think you can take the files from downloadable roms, and re-write it to a rom chip.  Someone here did that recently I believe.

Can't help you on where to download the rom file though, but have a look around the net ;)
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 07, 2005, 04:01:08 pm
yeah ill have to look into a rom writer     i should find one at bestbuy etc 
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: hulkster on February 07, 2005, 04:23:25 pm
yeah, or you could read the disclaimer about not posting stuff asking where to find roms.
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: crashwg on February 07, 2005, 04:25:03 pm
yeah, or you could read the disclaimer about not posting stuff asking where to find roms.
I think it's pretty obvious that he's not looking for Illegal roms...

yeah ill have to look into a rom writer     i should find one at bestbuy etc 
Uh, I highly doubt that they're going to have the type of rom writer that you're going to need!  :-\
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: SirPeale on February 07, 2005, 04:25:22 pm
yeah, or you could read the disclaimer about not posting stuff asking where to find roms.

Read closer.  He's asking about finding ROMs for a board he actually owns.  As in the chips on the board.

About the worst thing he's done is post in the wrong forum.
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: RayB on February 07, 2005, 04:30:50 pm
This is great! A moderator-sanctioned loophole. He didn't even need to specify which PCBs and which ROMs are bad. Yahoo! My turn:

I am looking for ROMs to fix bad PCBs. Please send me URLs.

Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: SirPeale on February 07, 2005, 04:34:38 pm
This is great! A moderator-sanctioned loophole. He didn't even need to specify which PCBs and which ROMs are bad. Yahoo! My turn:

I am looking for ROMs to fix bad PCBs. Please send me URLs.

No problem:

http://www.hobbyroms.com/
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: RayB on February 07, 2005, 04:36:43 pm
HAHAHAAHAH! Dag nabit, slap ---my bottom--- and call me Spanky!
I get it now...

 ::)
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 08, 2005, 02:36:05 pm
i havent read this since its been moved just know did i realize what was being said  like i thought i said i was looking for the real roms not files  but some people on here seem to like to be nasty  so enjoy
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 08, 2005, 03:17:27 pm
This is great! A moderator-sanctioned loophole. He didn't even need to specify which PCBs and which ROMs are bad. Yahoo! My turn:

I am looking for ROMs to fix bad PCBs. Please send me URLs.


    funny guy     it was my arlington pcb sromo and grom 1 and 2
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: RayB on February 08, 2005, 03:43:30 pm
Refer to them as "ROM chips" or "EPROMS" and dummies like me won't get confused.
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 08, 2005, 05:20:13 pm
there shouldnt have been any confusion from my orig post    i thought   8)
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: saint on February 08, 2005, 08:52:57 pm
Tommy - best place for this kind of help is rec.games.video.arcade.collecting -- people there are happy to help someone repair a board. Some folks will burn the specific ROM you need for free or for a nominal fee + cost of the chip. Some may email you the specific ROM file you need, but you'll have to be capable of burning it of course.

Use the UK version of Google Groups (http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&q=group%3Arec.games.video.arcade.collecting&btnG=Search&meta=) to get to rec.games.video.arcade.collecting, it's still the old style versus the new style they've implemented elsewhere.

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If you're repairing a vector based PCB, hit up the incredibly smart and helpful folks at the Vectorlist --  You can sign up here: http://www.vectorlist.org/.

Cheers!

--- saint

where can i find roms for my pcbs that have bad roms not to emulate but a rom in hand
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 09, 2005, 07:14:34 pm
thank you saint
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: Stingray on February 10, 2005, 12:36:05 pm
there shouldnt have been any confusion from my orig post    i thought   8)

Well I got it after reading it a couple times, but I still agree with RayB in that if you had said ROM chips or EPROMS it would have been clearer.

-S
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 10, 2005, 04:29:51 pm
i should have said rom chips i guess   either way most understood my meaning  from reading above 
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 10, 2005, 04:31:17 pm
i did find what i needed from peales  post anyway thanks alot
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: tommy on February 15, 2005, 10:49:49 am
has anyone done bussiness with hobbyroms  im planning on sending a moneyorder to him soon ,hope everything works out
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: mattv on February 15, 2005, 02:19:56 pm
I just asked him to burn 4 x EPROMS to fix a couple of CPS1 boards the other day, the guy's name is Stephan Suys and he has very helpful, very knowledgeable and very quick to respond.

The EPROMS haven't actually arrived yet (what with me being on the far side of the world and all) but from what I've seen so far he seems like a damn good guy.

Will let you know when they get here.
Title: Re: help finding roms
Post by: mattv on February 24, 2005, 08:59:28 pm
EPROMS arrived today, one day ahead of schedule.

Two thumbs up for hobbyroms.com