Kof '96 bootleg?

[LoLLo]

I recive today a kof '96 complete japanese kit ....but when i check inside the cart i found 5 eproms ....... is that a bootleg?

<img src="http://lollorunner1.supereva.it/Images/Kof96.JPG" alt=" - " />

<small>[ March 06, 2003, 09:17 AM: Message edited by: LoLLo ]</small>

 

[HPMAN]

Original cart

 

[evil wasabi]

Hmmm I'm kinda new to the tech side, and have a few questions. I can see that the boards are orginal with the SNK markings, are the eproms the ones with the clear windows? And lastly is 5 kind of a lot for a repair cart I know SNK used eproms on a bunch of carts as repairs but what range of eproms were used

 

[Bishamon]

I'd say it's original.

 

[DanAdamKOF]

I'm relatively sure it's an original. KOF '96 is a $25 game, there'd be no profit in pirating it.

 

[LoLLo]

Thank you! Now i can relax! multi_co multi_co

 

[Bishamon]

You know, my KOF'96 has the same four EPROMS on the top board, color coded with those stripes, even.

 

[MKL]

I don't have the cart but I think that there's something not quite right here.

The KOF96 romset (teh romz!) is supposed to be:

214-p1.bin: 52755d74 1048576 In kof96.zip
214-p2.bin: 002ccb73 2097152 In kof96.zip
214-s1.bin: 1254cbdb 131072 In kof96.zip
214-m1.bin: dabc427c 131072 In kof96.zip
214-v1.bin: 63f7b045 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-v2.bin: 25929059 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-v3.bin: 92a2257d 2097152 In kof96.zip
214-c1.bin: 7ecf4aa2 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c2.bin: 05b54f37 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c3.bin: 64989a65 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c4.bin: afbea515 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c5.bin: 2a3bbd26 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c6.bin: 44d30dc7 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c7.bin: 3687331b 4194304 In kof96.zip
214-c8.bin: fa1461ad 4194304 In kof96.zip

Now the left board (the CHA256) looks OK with all 8 c-roms, S1 and M1. The latter is an eprom, which is unusual (perhaps a repair job) but not enough to make it a boot.
The other board, however, looks odd to me: according to the above romset, V4 (the chip in the upper left corner) should not be there. And the remaining roms are p1 and p2 but in the pic we see two too many chips (eproms).

I don't know...to me it looks original but not in its original state.

 

[zorro]

DanAdamKOF:
I'm relatively sure it's an original. KOF '96 is a $25 game, there'd be no profit in pirating it.

There'd be no profit to be had in pirating it now... but back when it came out it probably was worth 300 dollars as are most current releases

 

[DanAdamKOF]

zorro:

DanAdamKOF:
I'm relatively sure it's an original. KOF '96 is a $25 game, there'd be no profit in pirating it.

There'd be no profit to be had in pirating it now... but back when it came out it probably was worth 300 dollars as are most current releases

Ohh, good point... still, it came in a kit. I still think it's an original, though.

 

[HPMAN]

MKL:
The KOF96 romset (teh romz!) is supposed to be:

214-p1.bin: 52755d74 1048576 In kof96.zip
214-p2.bin: 002ccb73 2097152 In kof96.zip
(blah...)

Fact is this is ONE of the romsets, not THE romset.

The one pictured is original, unmodified MVS cart (shipped with eproms from factory)

teh romz are far from listing every romsets from neo games.

 

[RabbitTroop]

Yep, that is an original KOF 96. There are versions that are solid PROMs as well, but it does not make this version any less original.

-Nick