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Title: Name this pcb (got it)
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 03:54:11 pm

 :)

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: j123vt_99 on February 24, 2005, 04:02:14 pm

[asking this as a newbie] are people skilled enough to identify a board purely by looks? [/asking this as a newbie]

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 04:04:23 pm

Ive seen stranger things happen on this site, they should,  j123vt   ;D   

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: j123vt_99 on February 24, 2005, 04:05:30 pm

Quote from: tommy on February 24, 2005, 04:04:23 pm

Ive seen stranger things happen on this site, they should,

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: Witchboard on February 24, 2005, 04:24:48 pm

Tips would be handy, like any names or numbers silked on the board.

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: Hoagie_one on February 24, 2005, 04:30:34 pm

Oh, Thats Bob

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 04:35:28 pm

Theres really nothing to tell about it ,its a jamma pcb

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: Apollo on February 24, 2005, 04:51:42 pm

Ok well to start the ball rolling it looks non Jamma and has 2 layers of PCB's.

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: SirPoonga on February 24, 2005, 04:53:38 pm

Arcade PCB?  Where do controls hook up?

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 05:00:47 pm

Like i said it is a jamma pcb theres no other inputs so all the hookups are from the jamma connector, it does have 2 boards there, im guessing the top pcb is the sound board,  ive got some more pictures but im having trouble posting them so i would have to email them , this is an odd board ive never seen before

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: Witchboard on February 24, 2005, 08:38:03 pm

This may be a silly question.. but since it's JAMMA have you plugged it up and seen what it is, or is this supposed to be a quessing game for fun and you already know what it is?

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: JoyMonkey on February 24, 2005, 08:42:14 pm

Is it Lucky Wander Boy?  :o

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 08:50:28 pm

No guessing game, the pcb seems to make some kind of ding when powerd up but thats it ,and everything in my cab is tip top so its the pcb, im fiddling with the board but nothing so far i did get it to ding as it did nothing before

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: JoyMonkey on February 24, 2005, 08:52:36 pm

There has to be something written on it. Sometimes I've identified boards by looking at the little round numbered stickers that are on a series of the roms, then matching those numbers to Mame roms using MAWS.

There's no manufacturer or copyright notice on it? Not even a year?

Edit: BTW, I wasn't guessing; Lucky Wander Boy was meant to be a joke. I guess you haven't read the book.

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 08:58:15 pm

As you can tell from the pic the roms have nothing marked , there is absolutly nothing marked on the pcb saying make model etc the only thing the top pcb says is

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: JoyMonkey on February 24, 2005, 09:03:35 pm

From the photo it looks like there's a lot of markings all over the roms. Even the processors say nothing?

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 09:05:57 pm

I could mail you some close ups , it looks like the main chip says 1988amd

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 09:09:01 pm

Quote from: JoyMonkey on February 24, 2005, 09:03:35 pm

From the photo it looks like there's a lot of markings all over the roms. Even the processors say nothing?

                                                                                                                                       i meant no stickers marking the roms

Title: Re: Name this pcb
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 09:58:04 pm

Found out its a mortal kombat bootleg but you couldnt tell by how it looks

Title: Re: Name this pcb (got it)
Post by: JoyMonkey on February 24, 2005, 10:03:52 pm

Ah nuts. I was going to suggest a Smash TV bootleg. Oh well.

EDIT:

For anyone interested, there's an excellent collection of various PCB photos here:
http://arcadecollecting.xmission.com/pcbpics/index.html

And a MAWS deluxe search for games with whatever CPU you can find on the board is always good too.

You can find some nice "unknown" pcbs on ebay that turn out pretty sweet. I bought an unknown PCB that I figured out was a Mr.Do! for $12 before.

Title: Re: Name this pcb (got it)
Post by: tommy on February 24, 2005, 10:11:47 pm

Thanks for helping joymonkey