I'm curious about this game I bought. It looks like a bootleg because it has EEPROMs and a couple daughterboard add-ons, but the boards themselves appear to be SNK originals. Naturally, I would assume this was either a repair or a conversion of some sort, but what throws me off is that the un-used spots where other ROMs would go (on say a different game), do not appear to have ever been used.
As you can see in the pics, the blank holes have solder on them, but they don't appear to have been soldered by hand.
I do own another Puzzle Bobble (original) and it has quite a few more chips than this one does. So that makes me think that whoever made this board probably upgraded to larger capacity ROMs.
I'm curious if something like this could have come from SNK or if there are any other opinions on what I may have here, please let me know! I only paid $17 for it, so I'm not too concerned about having paid for a bootleg...I'm just curious. And the reason I bought another Puzzle Bobble is because the one I have has some slight graphics glitches...a cleaning didn't fix it.
As you can see in the pics, the blank holes have solder on them, but they don't appear to have been soldered by hand.
I do own another Puzzle Bobble (original) and it has quite a few more chips than this one does. So that makes me think that whoever made this board probably upgraded to larger capacity ROMs.
I'm curious if something like this could have come from SNK or if there are any other opinions on what I may have here, please let me know! I only paid $17 for it, so I'm not too concerned about having paid for a bootleg...I'm just curious. And the reason I bought another Puzzle Bobble is because the one I have has some slight graphics glitches...a cleaning didn't fix it.