MVS PROTO DISCOVERED! Burning Fight MVS. Bootleg? Nay, Proto!

mmsadda

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Here's a game I never thought I'd see bootlegged, and yet here's a pretty shady-looking cart. I'm pretty well convinced this is a boot, but wanted to confirm. Covered ROMs that I'm pretty confident are all EPROMs. Screen on the board isn't the right font. Capacitors just look a bit "off." Flux around all the solder joints on the through-hole stuff. What do you think?

 
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Tyranix95

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May be a proto, or an early dev version.

May wanna check with Billy.
 

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very cool find. stickers are consistent w/other snk proto stickers.
 

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Nice. Looks just like my Last Resort Proto/Early build from earlier in the year.
 

bubba966

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Looks a lot like my Cyber Lip proto. Prototype boards (EP) and those proto stickers as have already been mentioned.

I'm curious if it still has the proto label or if someone replaced it like some jackass did w/my Cyber Lip.
 
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MCF 76

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Wow man, that does look like a proto very cool.
 

mmsadda

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Thanks for feedback, everyone!

I sent Billy a message; he confirmed it appears to be a proto.

I may try to play this one and the final version on MAME, and see if I can find any differences. I think there was another proto Burning Fight out there a while ago, which just had a few different colors and such, but we'll see!
 

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Please report back on the Hobo Blojo, this could be the biggest find of the year if they added that in later on vs the proto.
 

mmsadda

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Please report back on the Hobo Blojo, this could be the biggest find of the year if they added that in later on vs the proto.

Oh man, I forgot about that! Where in the game is that?
 

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This will go for sale for $3000 soon... just for consistency.

Otherwise cool find.
 

mmsadda

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This will go for sale for $3000 soon... just for consistency.

Otherwise cool find.

Is that a reference to something that's happened here, or a dig at me?
 

mmsadda

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What should a proto label look like?
 

NeoTurfMasta

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Congrats man! When I get home tonight I'll look at my other BF home proto. The early one I dumped back in 2011 is from December of 1990. That version was unfinished and had different character sprites. I have a second version of it that seems pretty complete, but I dont remember the date code off the top of my head.
 

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What does the unibios CRC check say?
 

mmsadda

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What does the unibios CRC check say?

Unfortunately, the 4-slot I recently picked up doesn't have a unibios yet, so I can't easily check that.
 

mmsadda

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Time for an update!

After speaking with Supergun and NeoTurfMasta, I feel it's safe to conclude this is a proto. This is later than the cart that NTM posted screens of and dumped by a few months at least. I'm sure he can elaborate further if he wants, as this is a bit out of my wheelhouse.

I'm not seeing any differences from the production version yet. It doesn't have any of the changes that NeoTurfMaster noted in his early proto version; mine has Billy, the later character select and continue screens, and seems to have the production stage 2 music. I'm thinking I'll dump the ROMs for the sake of preservation, and hold onto it, since it's cool to have even if it's very similar to the final version.

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The all-important HoblowJ is still there, as well.
 

mmsadda

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I just re-watched the video you posted, and your hobo looks very different from my man in a pink dress. Do you know what stage that's from? The one I posted a pic of is in the first stage, and it looks like he's giving a half-blow-j-half-hand-jibber
 

NeoTurfMasta

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Yeah this version looks to be at least one month newer than my other BF proto. The one I dumped in 2011 was from December of 1990, my second one is from Feb of 1991. This one looks to be from March 91.

Dec 1990 only 3 stages, incomplete, different music and character sprites.
Feb 1991, all stages complete. Sprites look to be final version. My music is corrupt on that cart: Labeled "Ver 07"
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March 1991, Labeled "Ver 23.3"

What's also cool about mmsadda's proto is it has that RomStar inventory sticker. There's probably a good chance this Proto passed through Tony's hands at some point.
 
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