WTB: dead capcom cps2 boards

as the title says, i'm looking for some dead/suicided cps2 arcade game boards.

some of you may know that you can bring suicided cps2 boards back to life by sending the games program eproms off to a guy named razoola, who in turn overwrites them with so-called phoenix roms to make the game work again.

the downside is that these roms are branded and the game will display a "phoenix edition" splashscreen at startup among other stuff, which devalues the games imho.

to make a long story short, i've recently had a look at the whole thing and just created my own revival-roms that bring a dead board back to live, but otherwise dont differ from the original ones. thus, the game appears to be 100% original AND is suicide-free.

i only have one cps2 game atm, a minty night warriors kit, which i dont want to sacrifice just for testing out my roms, thats why i'm looking for one or two dead boards i can play around with.

also, please note that this is just a personal project of mine and i wont distribute them(if they turn out to be working, but i'm pretty confident), neither for free nor for money.

thanks for reading.

 

Sorry, but I think thanks to Razoola, even dead CPS2 boards are hard to get for much less than a working board. I see Phoenixed boards on ebay alot. I do agree that it sort of devalues the games to have it clearly running hacked roms opposed to just decrypted ones. Ofcourse they have to be hacked to run as I recall, though they don't have to be obvious that they are hacked. I forget what it was but something had to be remapped to another address. Anyway, good luck with your project, although honestly you shouldn't worry about releasing them. Really the decrypted ROMs might as well float around out there. What's the big concern? Piracy? Oh ya like that's really not a problem already with emulation. I'd rather see some bootleg JAMMA boards for cheap. ;p

Maybe you'll be able to find some undesirable CPS2 board for cheap to be your test board.

 

I dont see how it devalues the game. It just displays "phoenix edition" in small text when you power up the game and just for a second. Plus you get more options like region select etc. And this way at least you know what its running. Better then having NO text and having no clue what roms the board is running imho. Why you'd want a board with suicide-roms in them while there is a perfectly viable alternative is a mystery to me too, to me the value goes up with phoenix roms.

Anyway, slightly off topic... consider it a bump