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Converting Mercs to Street Fighter 2
« on: August 02, 2008, 01:48:47 pm »
I have a Mercs board that I'd like to convert to Street Fighter II : Hyper Fighting. Is it as simple as swapping chips?
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Re: Converting Mercs to Street Fighter 2
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2008, 11:22:10 am »
JAMMA, so you just swap boards.
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Re: Converting Mercs to Street Fighter 2
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2008, 12:24:57 pm »
Both boards are Capcom System 2. Can't you take a set of Eproms and swap the Mercs chips for Street Fighter chips?
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Re: Converting Mercs to Street Fighter 2
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2008, 04:12:38 pm »
its cps1 and you should notice a security board,without the street fighter security board i don't think it will work
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Re: Converting Mercs to Street Fighter 2
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2008, 01:44:39 pm »
Boards are CHEAP.
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Re: Converting Mercs to Street Fighter 2
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2008, 11:52:12 am »
Mercs and Street Fighter 2 Turbo are both CPS1 boards, not CPS2.  If it was CPS2 then that suicide battery would make things more complicated than just a simple eeprom switch. 

But yeah, you can probably just buy a HF board for around 20 dollars from someone here on the forum or over at shoryuken.com.  A lot easier to do, and you wouldn't have to destroy a the other board.  MERCS was probably produced in a lot smaller numbers than HF. 
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