I got hosed with a boot didn't I?

Orochi Iori Y · Mar 18, 2004

Can anyone verify that this is a boot? The game is Mark of the Wolves, I am guessing that the chips on the the right are the bootleg chips....

Thanks for any help confirming this.

DanAdamKOF · Mar 18, 2004

Nope, those 4 chips are EPROMs on some MOTW boards. Completely legit.

Enjoy playing this SNK masterpiece, and welcome to the forums!!

kc · Mar 18, 2004

To me your MOTW dosnt look like a boot, looks more like a repair job.

Were did you get it?

ttooddddyy · Mar 18, 2004

I dunno, V1-4 roms look fine, maybe they ran out of P1-4s during the production run and used those eproms to finish the run.
The rest looks OK to me ?

Orochi Iori Y · Mar 18, 2004

Sweet! And thanks for the help!

I bought the game from a less than reputable seller on eBaySweet! And thanks for the help! I bought the game from a less than reputable seller on eBay... I am sure you can easily guess who that would be, but didn't realize who I was buying from until I had already paid (using one of his aliases). I guess I just lucked out...

Thanks for the Welcome, MotW is a great game, for now I will have to continue to enjoy it on my Dreamcast though... an MVS arcade unit is in my future though. (can't wait)

chris1 · Mar 18, 2004

Hmm..looks just like the one in this thread..

Legit though..

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84596

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Orochi Iori Y · Mar 18, 2004

chris1 said:
Hmm..looks just like the one in this thread..

Legit though..

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=84596

Actually those are the same specs as my cart, it is a green boxed Japanese version of the game... and yes that does look exactly like mine, I just opened mine back up and looked at the second board too. It also looks just like the one pictured. Now hopefully I didn't do any damage opening that thing up!

eclypse · May 28, 2004

I just bought one off a member off this forum and its got a whole other small PCB board wired on one of the 2 boards.. It even has its own gold connectors on it. You think this one is a boot??

I havent opened it up yet but i can see the boards since its in a clear case. Although it has the metalic reflective lable or whatever ya call it.

chris1 · May 29, 2004

eclypse said:
I just bought one off a member off this forum and its got a whole other small PCB board wired on one of the 2 boards.. It even has its own gold connectors on it. You think this one is a boot??

I havent opened it up yet but i can see the boards since its in a clear case. Although it has the metalic reflective lable or whatever ya call it.

Can you take board pics..?

If you send them to me I'll host/post them..

eclypse · May 29, 2004

Edit: It has a normal lable. heh must of got it mixed up with another.

I will try posting a pick or 2 later on today. It seems real though since theres no eproms.. Though the black wire is on there attached to the little daughter lookin PCB board to the main.

Its in kit form with matching serials.

chris1 · May 29, 2004

eclypse said:
Edit: It has a normal lable. heh must of got it mixed up with another.

I will try posting a pick or 2 later on today. It seems real though since theres no eproms.. Though the black wire is on there attached to the little daughter lookin PCB board to the main.

Its in kit form with matching serials.

Cool...I'm looking forward to seeing the pics..
....

All in all I think you have a real cart..
I probably have a saved picture of a board set like yours somewhere in my computer.

I have a Metal Slug 3 that has the daughter board and wire as other members have the same cart...It's real/original..

Greywolf · Jun 1, 2004

Just letting everybody know that I own one of those (seemingly not so) unusual MotW carts as well.

daybona · Sep 7, 2006

Anybody had probs with this version of MOTW messing up on them?

This game never ran 100% via my phantom1, but now it is randomly resetting while playing on my MV-1.

Are there are versions of the game on MVS that don't have eproms? Cuz my AES one has eproms as well. I guess the eproms are what is causing the problem?

chris1 · Sep 7, 2006

daybona said:
Anybody had probs with this version of MOTW messing up on them?

This game never ran 100% via my phantom1, but now it is randomly resetting while playing on my MV-1.

Are there are versions of the game on MVS that don't have eproms? Cuz my AES one has eproms as well. I guess the eproms are what is causing the problem?

I gotta look at my MVS copy and see..I think it's solid chipped..

chris1 · Sep 7, 2006

My Legit,Original MOTW

Solid chip,No Eprom version of MOTW..

daybona · Sep 8, 2006

Ok gotta find me one of those.

Dr. Jigglin · Sep 8, 2006

That's not a bootleg by far, I mean it's even 100% legit SNK boards aswell, it should have the "SNK" logo in white inbetween one of the pins on the side of the connector.

Mine doesn't have eproms.

dannywhac · Sep 8, 2006

And here's the version with the large daughterboard:
http://www.zen96737.zen.co.uk/garoumotw.htm

ulasamosa · Sep 8, 2006

there are about 3 or 4 different variations of legit versions of MOTW so your alright. I have actually only seen one boot in its existence and it was all eproms. and a hitty job at that. Boots are usually able to be spotted a mile away.

Xian Xi · Sep 12, 2006

dannywhac said:
And here's the version with the large daughterboard:
http://www.zen96737.zen.co.uk/garoumotw.htm

Thats interesting, the right half of the DB looks exactly like an NGPC game chip.

doughboy · Sep 17, 2006

My garou looks exactly the same as that 1st boot looking job :spock:

Nice to know it's probably not a boot :multi_co:

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