Is this a boot??? pic inside

[Trû]

I am curious before I sell it... cause if it is... I am going to demand my money back from a eBay seller. and not screw over anyone else!

 

[Mouse_Master]

Not enough info....

Does it have legit ROMs on board, if it does, it should be fine. Crack the cart open and take pics of both boards, and see if there are any silkscreened ROMs on board.

 

[Codeman1]

Broken link, I cant see the pic... <img src="graemlins/spock.gif" border="0" alt="[Spock]" />

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: Codeman1 ]</p>

 

[Trû]

server must have been down... pic it there

I'l open it up and post the pics here later today...

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: Trû ]</p>

 

[RabbitTroop]

Not always, what game is that? The case looks like Captain Tomaday/Strikers/KOF99... IF it is one of those games, versions exsist without EPROMs, but that may be an original cart with a last minute revision or fix. We need to see the whole board.

-Nick

 

[Trû]

name of the game is Puzzle Bobble

hope this pic is a is what you need.

 

[JHendrix]

Originally posted by Trû:
<strong>name of the game is Puzzle Bobble

hope this pic is a is what you need.

</strong><hr></blockquote>

Dude looks like all eeproms to me, not a good sign there man, sorry.

Peace

JHendrix

 

[Kert]

Looks like all the roms on the board has been changed. I would say it's a boot.

EBAY= Over priced carts & bootlegs.

 

[Tiptonium]

It is indeed a boot. Click on this link to see a real Puzzle Booble PCB (the one on the left). The genuine cart uses two eproms.

<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=002522" target="_blank">Linky</a>

 

[Trû]

thank you... I will now have to send an email to the eBay seller that sold me this!

I am glad I noticed this before I sold it to someone.. and thank you for letting me know that my suspicions were right!

 

[RabbitTroop]

Yep bootleg...

-Nick

 

[RabbitTroop]

Originally posted by Tiptonium:
<strong>It is indeed a boot. Click on this link to see a real Puzzle Booble PCB (the one on the left). The genuine cart uses two eproms.

<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=002522" target="_blank">Linky</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

I've got a PB without any EPROMs at all...

-Nick

 

[Tiptonium]

Originally posted by nruva:
<strong>

I've got a PB without any EPROMs at all...

-Nick</strong><hr></blockquote>

Neat! I've never seen one of those. Is it Euro?

 

[LastResort]

All the original PB i've seen have 2 eproms. When do dont see eproms it still might be a boot, they can always use OTP ROMS to do the job and you wouldn't even notice the difference between original and boot, offcourse OTP ROMS cost a little more then the standard EPROMS.

LastResort

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: LastResort ]</p>

 

[LWK]

Originally posted by Tiptonium:
<strong>

Neat! I've never seen one of those. Is it Euro?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Mine is also ep free.

 

[Shiftyfink]

Putting a boot in a see thru case. Now that takes BALLS! Puzzle Bobbles are hard to find that are 100% SNK.

 

[chris1]

How much did you pay for it?

 

[RabbitTroop]

Originally posted by Tiptonium:
<strong>

Neat! I've never seen one of those. Is it Euro?</strong><hr></blockquote>

No it is Japanese... All Toshiba chips with no EPROMs, it is deffinetly not a boot. I am not surprised though, this was one of the best selling Neo games of all time, there are probably many different runs of the game.

-Nick

 

[RabbitTroop]

Originally posted by LastResort:
<strong>All the original PB i've seen have 2 eproms. When do dont see eproms it still might be a boot, they can always use OTP ROMS to do the job and you wouldn't even notice the difference between original and boot, offcourse OTP ROMS cost a little more then the standard EPROMS.

LastResort

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: LastResort ]</strong><hr></blockquote>

I can tell the difference Believe me, I have actually had a game that was a bootleg, but used a mixture of Toshiba and Sony chips... The Sony chips were hand soldiered (pretty good to I might add). I kept it, it was a boot, but it was damn close to real. This was in my Kizuna Encounter cart.

-Nick

 

[Trû]

I paid $42.00 +shipping:

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2138677862" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2138677862</a>

glad to see I got screwed though... lol... just like everything else that has gone wrong...

 

[BIG BEAR]

Good thing I am not too crazy about the PB game What I was wondering is about Super Dodge Ball and Neo Mr.Do! All I seem to see is BOOTS of these two games floating around...
but yeah,when you see a title full of eproms that is a verygood indication that it is a pirated copy.
I mean EPROMS are cool chips because you can reprogram the chips with a burner if you run into problems in the future BUT NOT when the game is sold as authentic.
The pirated games I hate to see are the ones with the really horrible HACK JOB and the undersized chips on the PCB's
-BB
BUMP

[ November 01, 2002: Message edited by: BIG BEAR ]</p>

 

[Bishamon]

All the SNK-original carts with EPROMS I've seen have stickers over the windows if they're in a clear case, and no stickers if they're in an opaque case.

Transparent case with exposed EPROM windows is weird, plus every freaking data chip is an EPROM!

 

[Trû]

well, i called the seller of that auction that i won the cart from, and they said that they have sold over 1500 copies of this mvs cart on eBay over the past 5 years, and have not had any complaints.

they did however admit that the game was not an original, and they said that it is a really rare game, and almost impossible to find an original. dunno how true that is or not, but oh well. at least they admited it was fake.

thank you again for everyones help.