socialdrone
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- Jul 9, 2005
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before i ask your guys help, i did try and search the forums and read the faqs.
i have a snkg metal slug 3... at first glance i thought it was a bootleg, at second glance i thought it might be a repair or some crazy conversion...and now im confused
it has a spine label, it was printed out on a crappy printer and cutout by hand...its in english...so either that means its a bootleg or it never origionally had a label or the label was in japanese and someone switched it out for one in english?
inside there is a progbk1 board with all offical looking toshiba and snk chips.
the other board is a cha256 board m1 and s1 are windowed eproms. c4, c2, c3, and c1 are unmarked with the exception of having a number stamped on the top. c4 has 824, c2 has 822, and the others follow 82 and 821. it does not look like they were soldered on by machine, but it was done very neat. there is also a neo-273 and a neo-zmc chip located on this board.
ok at this point i thought it could be a repair...there are offical snk chips on both boards. its not unheard of that their would be eproms or repair work done in a snkg cart? then i take another look at the progbk1 board and look up the ngh? number...its 201. making it a metal slug board and not ms3.
i know very little about neo-geo hardware...i only recently bought my first machine, a mvh-mv1t. besides wanting to know if its a bootleg or a repair, im guessing bootleg, is it possible that its an early test version of ms3?
i wish i had a camera to show you guys. if you need me to go into any further detail please ask me, id be more than happy to.
another question i guess i have, if in fact it is a bootleg, what do you think about coverting it back into metal slug by replacing the unmarked and windowed eprom chips on the cha256 board with offical ones?
i have a snkg metal slug 3... at first glance i thought it was a bootleg, at second glance i thought it might be a repair or some crazy conversion...and now im confused
it has a spine label, it was printed out on a crappy printer and cutout by hand...its in english...so either that means its a bootleg or it never origionally had a label or the label was in japanese and someone switched it out for one in english?
inside there is a progbk1 board with all offical looking toshiba and snk chips.
the other board is a cha256 board m1 and s1 are windowed eproms. c4, c2, c3, and c1 are unmarked with the exception of having a number stamped on the top. c4 has 824, c2 has 822, and the others follow 82 and 821. it does not look like they were soldered on by machine, but it was done very neat. there is also a neo-273 and a neo-zmc chip located on this board.
ok at this point i thought it could be a repair...there are offical snk chips on both boards. its not unheard of that their would be eproms or repair work done in a snkg cart? then i take another look at the progbk1 board and look up the ngh? number...its 201. making it a metal slug board and not ms3.
i know very little about neo-geo hardware...i only recently bought my first machine, a mvh-mv1t. besides wanting to know if its a bootleg or a repair, im guessing bootleg, is it possible that its an early test version of ms3?
i wish i had a camera to show you guys. if you need me to go into any further detail please ask me, id be more than happy to.
another question i guess i have, if in fact it is a bootleg, what do you think about coverting it back into metal slug by replacing the unmarked and windowed eprom chips on the cha256 board with offical ones?
