More CPS2 PAL dumps

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Aug 142011
 

I have dumped and tested the following:
BGSB3B PAL – I found this on my Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom board
C2VA3 PAL – This is in the black all-in-one boards. Not sure if its the same for all games, this is from Marvel VS Capcom

I had an issue with the BGSB3B one, it didn’t work initially and just gave a black screen. Doing some logic analysing of the original PAL showed that pin 12 was permenantly LOW and on mine it was set HIGH.
I don’t know or understand a great deal about programming PLDs but I think that pin 12 is set high by the line “!B0 = ‘b’0;”
I think this means set to binary OFF and maybe if its active low then these things are swapped. This is all a huge assumption and am probably way off but by changing the above line to “!B0 = ‘b’1;” all became good and well so I’m claiming it as a victory.

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CPS2 PAL Information

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Aug 142011
 

Found this over at the Neo Geo forums here courtesy of Mitsurugi-w

GAME —————————– PAL REV.

SSF2X ——————————B
MSH———————————-F
MVC———————————-G
SFZ2———————————F or D (mostly D)
DD: TOD—————————–B
XMEN: COTA————————F
SSF———————————–1ST REV. (NO LETTER, JUST BGS-B3)
VH————————————-F
SFZ————————————E
MVS———————————–G
SFZ2A———————————D (assume F may work also)
SPF————————————B
DIMAHOO—————————–G
SGemF———————————G
M!PNG———————————F
BATLCIRC—————————–D
VS————————————–G
DKSTKRS——————————-D
CSC————————————-F
XVS————————————–F
GIGWNG——————————–G
SFZ3————————————-G
AVP—————————————B
1944————————————-G
MRZMTRX——————————–G
RM2:PF———————————-E
DD:SOM———————————F
SF2:HA———————————-G
VS2————————————–G
PROGEAR——————————-G
19XX————————————-E

CPS2 PAL Dumps – BGSB1 & BGSB2

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Aug 132011
 

Have just finished dumping the other 2 PAL chips from a CPS2 B board.
They are:
BGSB1 and
BGSB2

Both have been tested on my Japan X-Men Children of the Atom board
The BGSB3 PALs (F and G) are already available for download.

PAL Dumping with the Boardmaster 4000

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Aug 132011
 

Using the program that can be found here, I have successfully managed to dump a protected combinational PAL chip. The chip was one from a Street Fighter 2 C board and although it is already in the MAME set I wanted to test it againt something I knew was working.

To get this working a terminal emulator program is needed to capture the serial data. I used the free PuTTY program.
Once you have captured all the data and converted it using the PD.EXE program found in the link above, you can use WinCUPL to output a .JED file that can be used to create a functional GAL.

All credits goes to Charles MacDonald and Macro.

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