Arkanoid to Tournament Arkanoid Rom Question

rainman154

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So I finally got around to plugging in my Arkanoid board that I had bought over a year ago. It's such a long story as to why it took me so long to test it, I won't even go there.

But needless to say that when I plugged it in, the title screen comes up "Tournament Arkanoid". I looked at the board and it is clearly marked Arkanoid. I also own a Tournament Arkanoid. When I look at that board it is marked T Arkanoid. So WTF??

Can you do a rom swap on both boards??? I know they have the same pin out, so I would imagine that my roms must be Tournament Arkanoid on an Arkanoid Board.
 
Need a rom swap and a MCU swap. They use a special chip with additional programmed code/security bits on it. It's right next to the perpendicular brown colored wafer SIP package.

The Tournament chips are higher numbers on the window stickers than the original. You can easily swap any Ark board back and forth as long as you bring the eproms and the mcu. Without the mcu though it won't work...that's where the encryption is stored.
 
Damn. It will probably be easier for me to just buy another Arkanoid board and sell my double Tournament board.
I'll post in the WTB.
 
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