Are Midway "Sounds Good" boards interchangeable?

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Are Midway "Sounds Good" boards interchangeable?

I just got a stack of Midway boards, Spy Hunter II, Xenophobe, Rampage and a couple of Sarges, all of which seem to use the same basic designs and harness. I've got a Sounds Good board coming for the Xenophobe and I was wondering, is it possible to use it with the other boards if I reprogram the EPROMs? Or is there some kind of protection chip on it?
 
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The ROMs need to be changed/reprogrammed. The board is capable of running several different size of ROMs.....so it needs to be strapped properly fro the ROM size. There's also a game specific bi-polar PROM (or maybe it's a GAL, I can't remember) for each game. Beyond this, they're all the same.

Edward
 
Are you going to keep all the Sarges? I have a Sarge cocktail with the MCR III type boards in it that I am stealing to romswap back to Demo Derby, but I could put the more common mono board Sarge board in there and get that going too.

I just got a stack of Midway boards, Spy Hunter II, Xenophobe, Rampage and a couple of Sarges, all of which seem to use the same basic designs and harness. I've got a Sounds Good board coming for the Xenophobe and I was wondering, is it possible to use it with the other boards if I reprogram the EPROMs? Or is there some kind of protection chip on it?
 
Are you going to keep all the Sarges? I have a Sarge cocktail with the MCR III type boards in it that I am stealing to romswap back to Demo Derby, but I could put the more common mono board Sarge board in there and get that going too.

Possibly, I don't know yet as I haven't tested either so I'm not sure what I want to do yet, although I've got a Xenophobe JAMMA adaptor/harness coming that I hope will be compatible.

Check with jdoz2 whom I bought them from, I think I might have cleaned him out of Sarges but he's got a lot of stuff he's going through to sell and maybe he's got more.
 
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