I just acquired a CPS1 boardset. The seller was selling it as C & D. I knew it was a bootleg but the price was OK for just a working A board, a spare C board and sh** load of EPROMs. The B board is a genuine bootleg, not a convert/hack, with a PIC16C55 microcontroller on it.
It plays the C&D with correct name & logo (Not a "Dinosaur Hunter"). The sprite priorities are OK (Better than the single PCB bootlegs). The levels seems correct. The only problem I see with this half-bootleg is that the music in levels are looping. I understand this is an adaption for the lacking Q-sound but the loop is taken so short It really sounds annoying.
I've read some MAME source code on the net mentioning a bootleg B-board with PIC but the title was Street Fighter not C&D.
My questions are;
1) Can I convert this into something else? Such as Ghouls'n Ghosts?
2) Do you think it would worth dumping the ROMs before I decide what to do with this? (May be they are already in MAME, don't know yet)
3) The bootlegger scratched out the C board ASICs model number on the chip. The C board PCB is a 88622-C-5, just like the Final Fight C board but the ASIC is not a CPS-B-04 (tested on my FF didnt worked). Is there a way to determine the type of the C board asic by examining the program ROM codes?
It plays the C&D with correct name & logo (Not a "Dinosaur Hunter"). The sprite priorities are OK (Better than the single PCB bootlegs). The levels seems correct. The only problem I see with this half-bootleg is that the music in levels are looping. I understand this is an adaption for the lacking Q-sound but the loop is taken so short It really sounds annoying.
I've read some MAME source code on the net mentioning a bootleg B-board with PIC but the title was Street Fighter not C&D.
My questions are;
1) Can I convert this into something else? Such as Ghouls'n Ghosts?
2) Do you think it would worth dumping the ROMs before I decide what to do with this? (May be they are already in MAME, don't know yet)
3) The bootlegger scratched out the C board ASICs model number on the chip. The C board PCB is a 88622-C-5, just like the Final Fight C board but the ASIC is not a CPS-B-04 (tested on my FF didnt worked). Is there a way to determine the type of the C board asic by examining the program ROM codes?