ID'ing a 'mystery' MVS cart?

SavagePencil · Oct 17, 2005

Hi there, I recently purchased a 'lot' auction on eBay which included a bunch of AES games. When the box arrived, it also had a single MVS cart. Not having an MVS system handy, nor a Phantom convertor, I'm curious what the title actually is.

It had some writing on the end in sharpie (no sticker), but it was faded and unreadable. The case is clearish, but I haven't opened it to really look at the chipset. First of all, half of me is wondering whether or not the cart is legit in the first place or a bootleg.

Secondly, and most importantly, is there any way I can ID a cart just by looking at the boards themselves? Do MVS carts have any identifying marks on the chips or on the PCB itself? Never having seen an MVS cart up-close before, I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

lithy · Oct 17, 2005

yep, get all those numbers off one of the chips and we can tell you which game it is.

SavagePencil · Oct 17, 2005

It's at home right now, but when I get there tonight, are there any chips in particular I should look for? The long EEPROMs?

beh3moth · Oct 17, 2005

this is sooooo exciting!!! I bet its art of fighting 2!!! :kekeke:

lithy · Oct 17, 2005

SavagePencil said:
It's at home right now, but when I get there tonight, are there any chips in particular I should look for? The long EEPROMs?

well of course this is assuming the cart is legit.

if its a bootleg in a clear case 99% I would say its a bust a move/puzzle bobble

if its legit in a clear case could be fatal fury special, one of the world heroes, maybe windjammers, there's a few.

But anyway if its legit there should be solid proms that will have some numbers on them, if its all eproms (with the little window) or flash ram its a bootleg for sure

SavagePencil · Oct 17, 2005

beh3moth said:
this is sooooo exciting!!! I bet its art of fighting 2!!!

I'm not overly excited, because the auction lot was primarily common AES titles. :annoyed:

beh3moth · Oct 17, 2005

hurry it up man! i wanna find out what game you got! hehehe

ravenmgs · Oct 17, 2005

I bet it's World Heroes 2

taitai · Oct 17, 2005

I bet it's Star Wars Galaxies

Moose · Oct 17, 2005

Ironclad

ed: Faded Sharpie Writing? Flood Damaged.

SavagePencil · Oct 18, 2005

Drat, it's all white-stickered EEPROMs. Am I lost for now? I don't have an EPROM reader with that many pins

J0e Musashi · Oct 18, 2005

There isn't one chip with some numbers on it in on either of the 2 boards? Don't you have a camera or summat?

SavagePencil · Oct 18, 2005

Yup, but I stupidly left it at work yesterday. I'll get pics up tonight.

I'm sorry for the cocktease!

J0e Musashi · Oct 19, 2005

What the hell is it then? Dibs on buying opportunities if it turns out to be teh rarez.

SavagePencil · Oct 19, 2005

These pics totally suck. I need a new camera.

Case Side 1

Case Side 2

The only good image I got of the second board

Note that the second board doesn't have any stickers over the EEPROMs. Also, the board itself appears legit, but then again I've seen tons of pirate Pac-Mans that said "Namco" on them.

I can type up all the text on the PCB, if there's anything in particular you want to see.

lithy · Oct 19, 2005

The boards are legit and the chips where it says 043-C1 etc. means that 043 is the NGH number making it a 3 count bout. I'm not sure if its a repair or maybe they bootlegged it into some other cart by putting eproms in the EP and M slots, maybe someone else would know for sure, but 3 Count Bout at least is one of the clear case games. So maybe its legit I'm not completely positive either way.

SavagePencil · Oct 19, 2005

The faded text on top doesn't appear to say anything about 3-Count Bout or Fire Suplex...in fact, it looks like it ends with the word "dose" or something. We can't figure it out.

Amano Jacu · Oct 19, 2005

There's nobody in Austin with a MVS board? We can only be sure if you try it.

norton9478 · Oct 19, 2005

I'm pretty sure that the factory ed of 3CB had some EP roms in it...

How is the solder joining underneeth the EP rom?

loopyeddie · Oct 19, 2005

I'm sure it is original. I have the exact same one.

SavagePencil · Oct 19, 2005

Amano Jacu said:
There's nobody in Austin with a MVS board? We can only be sure if you try it.

I may go ask some of my former employer's friends, just to try it out. So far I'm the only one I know of with one.

Nightmare Tony · Oct 23, 2005

Fire suplex went out with eproms, as did super sidekicks 2. I dont recall if the main program was ever locked into mask rom. The cart is completely legit from appearances, but everyone else could tell ya that

chris1 · Oct 24, 2005

loopyeddie said:
I'm sure it is original. I have the exact same one.

Ditto..
Mine is like that too,clear case and all.

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