Andreas has dumped 4 PEEL devices from his Raiden board.
These are in PEEL format but PALTOGAL can convert these to GAL18V10. Unfortunately these are quite rare and expensive.
He has also dumped 2 x 40 pin EP910 EPLDs from the board
A very helpful guy called Andreas has been sending me some of this PAL dumps.
So far he has sent the missing Air Buster PAL, PR-500A and a full set of Special Criminal Investigation (SCI) dumps.
All these are still in PAL format and will need to be converted to GAL using PALTOGAL or something similar. I would do this myself but cannot test the outputs so I wont bother.
Another note, the SCI dumps were taken from a non working board but the PALs were unprotected and have no reason to believe they wont work. Please let me know if you do try these.
Massive thanks to Andreas for sending me his stuff
Received a Street Smart board today.
The PAL I originally had for download (location 1N, missing in MAME too) was useless. Luckily 2 of the 3 PALs on this board were unprotected and have now been added.
They are PALs at location 1N and 20M.
The PAL at 1N is a PAL20L10 and needs to be programmed to a GAL22V10.
I also have the original PAL dumps should anyone want them.
Received a New Astro City cab yesterday. Its in pretty decent condition, the monitor looks really nice and the price was right.
After checking and adjusting the voltages at the edge connector I fired up Puzzle Bobble 2 on the Taito F3 platform and had a few games.
There are a few problems to start with. Both the start buttons didn’t work. This ended up being some dodgy micro switches but was quickly sorted with a dose of WD40.
After a few games I decided to check out the inner workings of this thing. What a shock I had.
Looks like the good people of Hong Kong arent too fussy about safe wiring practices.
After making the loom safe for use I decided to check out the rest of the wiring.
First of all, this cab was originally designed for 110v supply but a step down transformer is fitted to convert 220v to 110v. I checked the voltage coming out the noise filter, 143v! Turns out the step down transformer was for a 200v input to get 100v output.
I removed this and fitted a proper 240v one. The output is now 108v, much better.
I also replaced the power supply wiring as this was 22AWG for something more substantial.
I decided to check the incoming wiring on the back panel, more dodgyness.
These are actually the supply wires.
I also found a set of redundant RGB-S wires in the loom, these have been removed too.
Found a BGSB2D PAL in my SFZ2. Also spied another PAL on the daughter board labelled BGSG2B.
Both can now be downloaded