I have some proto arcade boards from acclaim, it would be nice to dump and release them. I'm not too familiar with dumping / emulation of an arcade board as I am a hardware nut. Anyone here have experience?
Protos are definately not something you want to screw up dumping the contents. While I haven't personally dealt with Guru, he seems a reputable guy based on his contributions to the MAME team. The bad part is that he's in Australia, so if you send the boards to him, it's gonna get expensive...
well guru has a good reputation over the years on dumping stuff for mame, and im sure he will do the task without destroy the board, i would ask him about let you dump your boards, i know they have some money fund for this stuff, maybe they pay the ship tases if you ask ... i definilly would ask him ... cheers
This is a one of a kind board, I will take pictures first. It is basically the protos of the boards from acclaim arcade in california.
you can be sure guru will never destroy it, i he cant dump it he would never touch it, guru has also started a project to decap and take pictures of some cpus of well known arcade games.
what a fantastic find. arcade protos are quite special in my book, they rarely get out at all. may I ask what games these are?
Send your board to TheGuru is quite expensive but when you do that you know that they will be properlly dumped.
I'm interested to see this hardware you claim to have access to. Surely it's not difficult to put up a pic? As for shipping, it is certainly NOT expensive to send one PCB to .au, those that say that obviously have no idea..... Also, if it is NBA Jam Extreme, it is already dumped and not needed (it is not prototype anyway). If it's using Voodoo hardware, I suspect the game is 'Magic The Gathering: Armageddon', which is actually dumped too, but we're missing some of the surface mounted ROMs on the top board. In that case, only the top board needs to be sent to me. It would be very foolish to try to remove and dump those without experience and equipment. Guru http://www.mameworld.net/gurudumps/
I'm sure all the boards are dumped, I am just wondering if this has some beta version of the game. There could be fun stuff on it. It's boxed up in my basement ATM. I will post pictures later today. I need a picture of nba-jam extreme is possible so I can compare.
It is difficult. Lacking a comparison, I will just say it's a large collection. I dug around and all I found so far is the soundboard, and some proto voodoo cards. As the game was released, I'm not going to tear apart the rest of the basement to find it. It basically has the same level of godawful hacks to the pcb. They also had lots of midway nba jam stuff , I guess they just reverse engineered it all and stole what they wanted. When I find the box with the boards I will post more. This isn't terribly interesting, so it will take some time, probably not until after the next move and inventory everything.
oh. now I see. That looks like the sound board from (STV) Batman and NBA Jam Extreme but with an extra board for the PCMCIA card (which probably holds the data found in the maskROMs on the NBA Jam Extreme sound board). The game is probably unfinished/unplayable but I suspect a full dump of it will help with the emulation of the official ZN1 version of NBA Jam Extreme because of the nasty FPGA protection. So believe it or not, it is more interesting than you realise. Guru
