mainman said:
No, seriously answer this man question. WTF, if you can produce your own wafers, nothing is out of your reach. Are you sure its a boot.
Yes, it is a 100% made from scratch boot. Neo Turf Masters with the same board design grow on trees in Korea, all with serial#000955 on English labels. I have seen a Metal Slug with the same design as well.
The NEO-MVS PROGSS3 and SNK logo on the top board in the picture are misaligned, the bottom board doesn't say SNK at all, there is not even one authentic chip on any of the boards and on top of that the top board in the picture has a daughter board flipped upside down and soldered on on the right hand side as well as board-piercing capacitors and resistors all over the place which was common practice in 1990 in the NAM-1975 and Magician Lord heyday. U11 was made in 1996.. Not even SS1 from 1993 looks like that.
If we then start looking at the taped-over S1 and M1 chips which are EPROMS with pencil writing on them we have yet another giveaway. Real fixes always come with labels or color codes as opposed to pencil writing on boot EPROMS. To finish the opponent before VICTOLY is displayed, we can rejoice at mask roms where all chips have different numbering and bears no resemblance to the position of the chips (P1, C1 etc.) and have no NGH-numbers which sit on a board with an edge connector which looks like just any other boot made from scratch but has no equally looking edge connector among original boards. The bridge between the four leftmost pins doesn't exist on any real boards in that design, even among small-run prototypes and test boards.
Due to the mask roms, this is most likely the best boot you can ever find, but it is a boot. It is not a prototype. Hey look, the game was released in 1996 and the bottom board has a 9815 date stamp. I sincerely doubt SNK would make a prototype two years after the game was released, or what do you guys out there think?