Hi! one of you sure know which game is this, i've 2 jamma board since years, one of them is pretty much dead, on turn on goes blank and shows random sprites, no idea which game is, the other one runs perfect, but only got the board, so i don't know which game it is, hooked on a normal tv some years ago i was able to get some very bad pictures but something at least. is a 2 player upright game of helicopters or so they told me years ago when i received it, i assume that is a pretty common game, nothing rare but nice to have, the pc itself is a double pcb connected by flat cables, has an motorola mc68000(or so). any help is appreciated. Thanks!
The helicopter's shots look a bit like Twin Cobra to me, but it's hard to tell because the pictures are really bad Lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSQpUlE5As ?
is not twin cobra, is really similar to but no, the "insert coin" text on twin cobra isn't the same and says "game over", it has a very characteristic music and plays it all the time even on the main screen, on the HW checks at the starup makes some Boings noises after each check and does it really fast.
isn't tiger heli either, has a more advanced sound than tiger heli, may be a variant of twin cobra, i remember seeing some non-occidental writing on the main screen logo but not really sure about that
mmm see what i can do, the pcb are not in my place but my parents, see if i can find some old pic of it
It's not a side scroller going from the pictures posted. It could be the later mid 90's Tiger game, the same one that was ported to the Saturn. Just out of interest, how on earth did you take such awful pictures? You'd have to try hard to take pictures that bad. Yakumo
Unless it's a bootleg (are there any of this game?), this can't be it according to the description ("the pcb itself is a double pcb connected by flat cables"). Taito F3 games came in a cartridge-like style and you had to connect them directly with the motherboard PCB, no flat cables involved. Flat cables sounds like 80's anyway, and also like bootleg unless we go way back.
it's not tiger heli, it appears to be an 80's pcb, on the board there are lots of mask roms numbered like A1-1 A1-2 and such printed on the top of the IC with large numbers and letters, in some day i'm tripping to my parents house and can take good pics of the boards, as for the actual pics, they were taken with an ancient nokia 6620, the picture has no Sync as it's no the same type of signal (poor tv), was some kind of miracle that the image show on the screen
I know how we can tell what game this is. Just take a picture of the title screen. then we can see the game title (even Japanese is fine), company and year (unless it's a bootleg). Yakumo
it's not that easy at the title screen it completely loses the sync signal since is not the monitor is should and nothing readable comes on screen, the japanese title is just a flash before the demo starts and had no cleared the title just the background. looks more challenging than i dot, in a couple of weeks i'll be uploading some good pics of the pcb
I was thinking of Metal Hawk by Namco as it has the same Insert Coin text, but they are such awful pictures it is hard to tell. Picture of the PCB would help as stated many times before.
almost almost, is pretty much that game but it's not, metal hawk has dual mc68000, mine doesn't, by the text of insert coin i would say is pretty much a namco game (maybe i'm wrong) but really looks like that one, the cabinet was a generic one, metal hawk was a much developed game with a flight stick not just the directional pad and de buttons
