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Last months I was working on a dump project . In this case the tool is intended to dump the internal ROM present on some MCU devices from the Toshiba TLCS-90 series.
Some NMK games, such Thunder Dragon, Hacha Mecha Figher and Double Dealer, and some other Jaleco games, such as Big Striker, use it and their internal ROM was successfully dumped using the tool.

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If you have another board with a device based on this MCU, now it's possible to dump and preserve it. It would be useful to improve emulation and, of course, make replacements for boards using it.

Current known board with undumped devices are:
  • Avenging Spirit (thanks to @Tailsnic Retroworks )
  • E.D.F.
  • 64th Street
  • Cybattler (thanks to @kuze )
  • Chimera Beast (it's a proto so finding an original mcu for this would be almost impossible)
  • Hayaoshi Quiz Ouza Ketteisen: The King Of Quiz
  • Peek-a-Boo

The tool is currently released as public for free use at:

https://github.com/sergiopolog/tlcs90-rom-reader
 
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Epic job guys! Thanks for helping preserve all these great games and their devices too.
 
@tovar if you're selling those games, please update your thread. I'll ping a couple of people to see who wants to buy.

Thanks.
 
64th Street. (Available)
E.D.F. (Available)
Avenging Spirit. (Reserved-sold)
 
This worked out very well in the end , the full board reversing has given many fruits such as this and the 214 bypassers!

Much appreciated that you took on this task @Nebula , it would of taken me another 5 years to get chance to give it a shot :P

PS:
The jaleco stuff should be common enough (except chimera beast) , before buying boards for dumping purpose it maybe worth waiting for DU members and others such as @atrac17 to check/dump the boards they have first and see what's remaining at the end.
 
Peek-a-Boo and E.D.F dumps recently added!

The list of remaining ones updated. Basically:
  • Avenging Spirit (single board version only - SystemB)
  • Chimera Beast (almost impossible to find, I'm afraid...)
  • Hayaoshi Quiz

Let me know if you have one of them :D

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Awesome job!

Nebula said:
The list of remaining ones updated. Basically:
  • Avenging Spirit (single board version only - SystemB)
  • Chimera Beast (almost impossible to find, I'm afraid...)
  • Hayaoshi Quiz
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If anyone has any of these games, please let us know. The chips can be read in a completely safe methed with that reader from @Nebula
 
Tailsnic Retroworks said:
I have Phantasm, double board @Nebula. Has the processor you need to dump?
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In that case, Phantasm is built on SystemA variant, and there is no MCU on SystemA games (mobo + romboard), but thanks anyway.

Only games in SystemB, C and D have the MCU and, for that particular game, only Avenging Spirit version is released in SystemB (single board).
 
How many of these TLCS-90 are left to dump? Is there a list?
 
Darksoft said:
How many of these TLCS-90 are left to dump? Is there a list?
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Yep! It’s in the first post 😁
Now it’s updated and only 2 to go.

Sad thing is that Hayaoshi board shown up on YAJ a few months ago. I was following it and it even ended cheap, but I totally forgot to place a bid 😥

The other one for chimera beast, would be almost impossible to find
 
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