Being a Windows user and sometimes favoring GUI’s over command line stuff I decided to make my own program to calculate the signatures for the fluke 9010.
This program is a simple drag and drop affair and processes 1 file at a time. Directory scanning is not present in this program.
It has recently been found out that on B boards 93646B-3 and 93646B-4 there is a suspected routing error for one of the pins from PAL 3.
This means that if you are doing a game conversion using on of these B boards, you cannot natively use the BGSB3G PAL chip, you will have to either lift pin 9 of the PAL and solder a wire to C13 of connector CN3 or use PAL BGSB3F, lift pin 7 and solder a wire to C13 of connector CN3.
Long ago I needed a program to interleave 2 binary files together. At the time SirMorris over at the RCM forum made one up and it did the job nicely.
Since that time, ive got into programming myself and decided to make my own program that did exactly the same thing. From then, I kept adding bits to it to make my life a little easier and focused on ease and speed of use. Its now progressed into something that I use regular when dealing with ROM’s and things.
It can:
Interleave 2 files
Deinterleave files
Split files
Swap upper and lower portions of a file
I’ve had quite a surprising number of people tell me they also found it useful which is nice.
Found this on my NSS board. It had “V3” written on a label in pen so couldnt verify if it was original or not so never submitted it to MAME.
Ive since been told my the author of the NO$ emulators that its seems to be legit.
In amongst a box of boards I had this Pang 3 on the CPS1 hardware.
The game didnt work but ended up being another dodgy motherboard. The game actually worked fine.
Going purely from the quality of the board im going to say that it is a very good bootleg of the Mitchell B board.
Its just too poor to be genuine i feel.
There is a difference to this one though.
It has been hacked to use a different C board.
The C board used in this case was from Final Fight which is nice because I regret selling mine recently so I will make up a new one.
This board also has the Mach215 security PLCC on it. I will attempt to read it out when I make up an adapter.
I have dumped the two 27c4096 ROM’s and confirmed they are not in MAME so you can find them in my downloads section if you want them for any reason.