"Yaton Special" carts?

zapatistab said:

People who play MVS carts, and don't know what "Special" means, shouldn't be buying or playing MVS games anyway.

The MVS noobs who complain about boots, probably play Roms.

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couldn't have put it better myself.

Tsubaki said:

"Yaton Special" sounds dirty...

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Someone had to say it...

I was thinking the same thing.

Update about the broken case:
Yaton offered me a $10 refund or a new case on my next order.

Great guy

If you're thinking about buying the boot, save yourself the time, money, spiders, dirt, and download teh rom instead.

ironish said:

If you're thinking about buying the boot, save yourself the time, money, spiders, dirt, and download teh rom instead.

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teh wordz of wizdom :chimp:

I just received my new order today ... here are the results:

Samurai Shodown 2
Original w/ original label (serials removed). Dirty like only a Yaton cart can be.

Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Original w/ horrible fake label & blue case. Clean. Holy crap, now I know what everyone's talking about with this game!

Twinkle Star Sprites
Sold as bootleg; verified as bootleg (SNK boards w/ windowed EPROMs, MX chips & horrible soldering / jumper wire). Clean & played fine on the first try.
Pic 1
Pic 2 (electrical tape is mine)

Neo Turf Masters
Sold as bootleg; verified as bootleg (SNK boards w/ windowed EPROMs, MX chips, and some mask roms w/ a solder-bridge repaired trace on one board). This one's interesting. It was clean in the first place but I cleaned it thoroughly anyway (as I do with all my MVS carts) but it simply would not boot past the crosshatch test. However, I booted with A+B+C held down to get into the Universe Bios menu and it CRC checked / jukebox played just fine. After exiting the UniBios menu, the game boots and plays just fine. I have to do this every time I boot the game. *shrugs*
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Pic 2 (again, my electrical tape)
Solder bridge pic

Anyway, despite the NTM problems, I'm happy. Even having to do the Universe Bios trick, it still boots a hell of a lot faster than the CD version.

Of course, I don't want anyone to think this means I'm suddenly advocating buying bootlegs ... I just rolled the dice this time and got lucky. About the only other cart I'd consider buying a boot of is Bust-A-Move Again EX and as far as I'm concerned, these will just hold me over until the real deal comes along at a price I feel like paying.

ironish said:

If you're thinking about buying the boot, save yourself the time, money, spiders, dirt, and download teh rom instead.

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Unfortunately roms do not play on my MVS-motherboard in my cabinet

I have a Spinmaster boot I got off him a couple years ago, and the audio is glitchy (it pops/has static every few seconds). He offered to replace it as he had no idea it was a boot, but it turned out that all the other copies he had were also boots.