Another TAITO PAL dumps after the Kuri Kinton ones.Today I’ve dumped the PALs from an original Dr. Toppel Tankentai PCB ( a cute shooter similar to Parodius or Detana Twinbee).Dumps are tested and working in a GAL16V8 device.Just a note : two of the four PALs are also found on Insector X and The New Zealand Story PCBs.
Some days ago I dumped the two PALs from an original TAITO Kuri Kinton PCB.Board is faulty (it shows graphical problems) but I can say both dumps are good and working in a GAL16V8 targeting device.
Another one of Ben’s boards.
Had the usual graphics issues you normally get associated with those four 2114 RAM’s only this time the RAM’s had already been replaced and all four were good.
Following the inputs and outputs from these RAM chips I found some broken traces, probably a result of desoldering them originally.
Pin 1 of the RAM at location 3H was not connected to anything. I patched this and it fixed the solider sprite on the title screen but some in-game graphics were all messed up.
After confirming all other connections were good I noticed two other 2114 RAM chips that had been worked one and socketed so I checked those too.
Initially I found pins 3 and 4 of the RAM chip at 1B. Patching these gave me this result
Getting there but not quite.
A little further inspecting these chips and I also found pin 15 of the same chip not connected to GND like it should be.
Patching this one gave me a perfectly working game.
Added Boot Camp entry to the PAL archive.
This is the same one as Combat School that Caius has already dumped.
Its a little known fact that I’m a big Metal Slug fan. Its little known because ive only recently got into playing it on a friends Neo Geo CD system.
It came as a great surprise when Darksoft announced that Metal Slug 6 has been converted to the NAOMI as I had never played it before and had also seen nothing of it.
Im happy to say it works perfectly and have had a fun morning shooting aliens.
Thanks to Darksoft for continuing with this project and for once again introducing me to more hidden gems from a system I’m likely never to own again.
