So I got Puzzle Bobble in a white rental cart, and a Blue Metal Slug X I got for a good deal both in shock boxes courtesy of South Town Homebrew, place is great. I confirmed on another forum and with scans both are legit.
I want Blazing Star next so when i am not playing Mushi Futari 1.5 with my NAC is in Tate mode I still have a Shmup to play LOL. If it interests you guys Im a huge fan of the Naomi too and I have Melty Blood Actress again, Power Stone, Virtua Tennis, and Capcom Vs SNK millennium fight 2000 but it has 2 bad roms that need replacing. Both the Naomi and MVS are multi region modded cause why not lol.
I really hope I can save this bad board. It originally had sprite problems and after working with Oliveria (not sure if hes around here) it sounds like the ZMC2 chip is bad and needs replacing (good luck finding one cheap :| ). I spent a crap load of time checking all related traces and reflowing but it didnt help. Some knuckle head NUKED the board with a TON of heat around the Z80 cpu and as a result the back plane connectors for the cart connector board is warped, a trace with the via lifted out of the board, and there is obvious heat damage in that area to the board.... I cut the old Z80 out to prevent any further heat damage while desoldering then added a socket for a new. Traced the broken trace and via from point to point and repaired that but now I get a Z80 error... sigh The repaired board had a work ram error so replacing the work rams was an easy fix to a 25 dollar board too bad the 75 dollar one is a piece of work
Anyways that's my story lol what a time to be alive