bootleg alert : !Arcade! 's Bust A Move

HPMAN · Jun 22, 2003

Yup, plain simple and confirmed, this latest product is made with fucking bootleg PB parts. :mad:

[ June 22, 2003, 08:28 PM: Message edited by: HPMAN ]

Tarma · Jun 22, 2003

Excuse my ignorance - what are 'pb' parts? spock

I thought !Arcade! had stopped making conversions anyway...

Atro · Jun 22, 2003

Tarma:
Excuse my ignorance - what are 'pb' parts? spock

I thought !Arcade! had stopped making conversions anyway...

hmm... "Printed ( circuit ) Boards" ? smirk

Or... just "Puzzle Bobble"

[ June 22, 2003, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: Atrophyed ]

Tarma · Jun 22, 2003

Eprom burns?

HPMAN · Jun 22, 2003

pb = Puzzle Bobble spock

They still "stealthy" released PB, you know, private sales and byg timers usual bullshit.

Judging from print/paper quality of this one, they should have quitted anyway

Atro · Jun 22, 2003

Tarma:
Eprom burns?

Most probably. smirk

Galford Forever · Jun 22, 2003

I'm a little ignorant on what's going on.. did !Arcade! do a homecart release of Puzzle Bobbles???

If so, aren't they worried about Playmore, etc???

EDIT: HPMAN's reply as I was typing this message answered those questions...

[ June 22, 2003, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: Galford Forever ]

Tarma · Jun 22, 2003

HPMAN:
pb = Puzzle Bobble spock

They still "stealthy" released PB, you know, private sales and byg timers usual bullshit.

Judging from print/paper quality of this one, they should have quitted anyway

Well, I know which copy of PI2 I'm happier with wink

jones · Jun 22, 2003

I hope playmore sees this and takes down that shit bag !arcade!

LWK · Jun 22, 2003

This never comes as a suprise.

TheBigBB · Jun 22, 2003

Are you sure about this? That wouldn't make any sense for them to do that given the current mindset of Playmore and that their past releases were always quality work. Although, I'm not a fan of conversions.

HPMAN · Jun 22, 2003

Actually it was publicly displayed at neoayato :
<img src="http://www.neoayato.com/images/products/bust%20conv.JPG" alt=" - " />

SNKJorge · Jun 22, 2003

dmhawkmoon:
Are you sure about this? That wouldn't make any sense for them to do that given the current mindset of Playmore and that their past releases were always quality work. Although, I'm not a fan of conversions.

They do it 'underground' style...

Robert Wallace · Jun 22, 2003

HPMAN:
Actually it was publicly displayed at neoayato :
<img src="http://www.neoayato.com/images/products/bust%20conv.JPG" alt=" - " />

I remember looking at Neoayato's Website a few weeks ago.... They were asking over $300.00 for this Bust A Move Conversion. oh_no

Snooptalian · Jun 22, 2003

Are there any pics of these boards in the converted bust a move cart?

HPMAN · Jun 22, 2003

Bootleg time

<img src="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hpman/bam_boot.jpg" alt=" - " />

oh_no oh_no

neo-geo 2 · Jun 22, 2003

!Arcade! has Officially turned into NGF

Robert Wallace · Jun 23, 2003

HPMAN:
Bootleg time

<img src="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hpman/bam_boot.jpg" alt=" - " />

oh_no oh_no

"I wonder how many other !Arcade! Conversions are bootlegs/EPROM's??????"

eek! shame

SNKJorge · Jun 23, 2003

I was offered one. Thank god I didn't buy one.
oh_no oh_no oh_no shame

TheBigBB · Jun 23, 2003

Um, please, I don't want to kiss the ass of a bootlegger, but you do know the story about Bust A Move right? SNK made a lot of them using EPROMs from another cart that wasn't as popular. It's right in that thread in the tech forum. I don't know what I'm looking at there, but the fact that it has EPROMs says NOTHING. It would be really shitty of you to be badmouthing this guy and giving him a bad name if you're wrong. I'm not !Arcade!'s best friend, but he did give us the Phantom-1 which is not perfect but it's the best peripheral of that type ever made for the Neo.

Tarma · Jun 23, 2003

I see he's stopped using the custom boards he used for previous conversions and has gone back to sac carts...

RabbitTroop · Jun 23, 2003

Bootleg or not, this seems foolish in light of Playmore's current obsession of boot bashing... I don't know what to say... Guess he feels ol' Canada is going to be his safety net... I wouldn't bank on it,

-Nick

TheBigBB · Jun 23, 2003

<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=005053" target="_blank">http://www.neo-geo.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=005053</a>

Snooptalian · Jun 23, 2003

Just because there are eeproms on the board doesn't mean it's a boot. In the case of bust a move it's more than likely a factory repair. I don't believe Arcade would do a conversion with bootlegged product. If they had, I'm sure the news would have surfaced long ago.

leGionellz · Jun 23, 2003

Definitly a boot, heard this from someone else too.

And does a non-boot genuine cart with all eproms except for the one prom on the pic make any sence to you ? I think not..

Versions of pb with 2 and I believe 4 eproms are confirmed to be genuine, but at least they have more proms then the one you see on this worthless peace of garbage.

I wonder how they worked out creating the one prom though.. spock

Could it be some kind of eraseable media too ?

Anyways, shame one Arcade shame .. This is some bad stuff they are trying to sell here.

The insert does look nice though

much better then mine.

bootleg alert : !Arcade! 's Bust A Move

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