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JohnRambo'sKnife
Champion
Someone buy the Dell CRT he has listed for 10K. Lol.
GeekMan1222
Grand Master
I figured this would happen some day.
to be realistic though CV1000-D boards usually fetch alot of money anyways. I dont think its possible to make a bootleg without forking out a ton for a donor board already unless its old stock these guys got in China for CHEAP
But also why go through the effort when you can just sell it for what it probably goes for.
I cant think of any "cheap" cv1000-D boards that you could magically buy up for super cheap and make any meaningful amount of profit on it by doing this
So its probably old stock or boards with bit rot that needed reprogramming anyways???
to be realistic though CV1000-D boards usually fetch alot of money anyways. I dont think its possible to make a bootleg without forking out a ton for a donor board already unless its old stock these guys got in China for CHEAP
But also why go through the effort when you can just sell it for what it probably goes for.
I cant think of any "cheap" cv1000-D boards that you could magically buy up for super cheap and make any meaningful amount of profit on it by doing this
So its probably old stock or boards with bit rot that needed reprogramming anyways???
Pretty interesting to say the least. I wonder how the sound is on these and if it is a true 1:1 reproduction. It does seem like they are having to use some stock of existing games to source parts, hopefully damaged games and not originals that were working.
GeekMan1222
Grand Master
The odd thing is the gold plating. I just put my CV1000D in storage otherwise id be staring at it as we speak.
Everything else looks like a 1:1 copy. Which sounds like a living hell to make from scratch. Maybe they stole the gerber files from Cave LOL
But then you have to go through the effort of finding all the original EOL old stock chips and cpus and components that look basically exactly the same..
Maybe they are ripping parts off old beat up PCB's and putting them on repro boards. Its odd man
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Okay unless someone can prove otherwise. This is feeling like a total repro/remake PCB. The chips and parts are all old stock sourced things I just cant see anything from that era thats gold plated and not tin, everything else is 1:1 . Thats nutty if thats the case...
Everything else looks like a 1:1 copy. Which sounds like a living hell to make from scratch. Maybe they stole the gerber files from Cave LOL
But then you have to go through the effort of finding all the original EOL old stock chips and cpus and components that look basically exactly the same..
Maybe they are ripping parts off old beat up PCB's and putting them on repro boards. Its odd man
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Okay unless someone can prove otherwise. This is feeling like a total repro/remake PCB. The chips and parts are all old stock sourced things I just cant see anything from that era thats gold plated and not tin, everything else is 1:1 . Thats nutty if thats the case...
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It's crazy to think how much effort went into this if they didn't plan to make them at some kind of volume. Trickle a few out to get people interested and sell a few at that high $ price and then slowly bring more to market and (hopefully) lower the price.
For all that work, there's got to be a longer term plan to maximize their profit. Not just make a dozen boards (depending on donor pcb's) and walk away. It'll be very interesting to see how this develops.
And below a certain price many a wallet will open with a quickness. Mine certainly would.
For all that work, there's got to be a longer term plan to maximize their profit. Not just make a dozen boards (depending on donor pcb's) and walk away. It'll be very interesting to see how this develops.
And below a certain price many a wallet will open with a quickness. Mine certainly would.
Very impressive stuff!
Seems unlikely since there some components like the fpga and sh3 cpu that must be rough to source by now.
That guy is already well known for his luck of transparency aka lies. He was banned from this forum and other ones too: https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/dodonpachi-saidaioujo-conversion-sold-for-2500usd.17918/
The time and cost to develop something like this shouldn't be underestimated, even if he rips off an existing design, so he can ask for however much he wants.
Though he should be honest that it is a replica, clearly mark the PCB and maybe use a unique soldermask colour.
To create a multi you could probably use more flash memory, or use DIMM sockets. Though I'm not sure how much impact changes like this would have on competitive play or tournaments.
Though he should be honest that it is a replica, clearly mark the PCB and maybe use a unique soldermask colour.
To create a multi you could probably use more flash memory, or use DIMM sockets. Though I'm not sure how much impact changes like this would have on competitive play or tournaments.
Nah it wouldn't.
I think I saw new SH3 listing recently (a few years back) but could you use SH4 out of naomis and dreamcasts?
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Digikey lists some processors as active with SH-3 core: https://www.digikey.de/short/bbc5vqf9
No idea if they are compatible, though.
A repro of anything is possible. A chap in the UK did full repro PCB of Mr Do just for fun:
https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/mr-do-appreciation-pcb-redesign.78155/page-6
https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/mr-do-appreciation-pcb-redesign.78155/page-6
Would one of these work? https://www.renesas.com/us/en/produ...e-family-mcus/sh7709s-32-bit-microcontrollers
skate323k137
Enlightened
FWIW Not sure if technically they are vias or not, but it's a pattern I recognize from multi-layer PCBs regardless. If you see that patterning on a board of the era, it's essentially a guarantee it's more than a 2 layer board.
I don't understand why it's 1:1. There's a very real market for these even without trying to dupe the buyer.
@mypinballs
That's awesome.
@mypinballs
That's awesome.
