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PolePosition 2

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Hi Klovites,

Been looking at purchasing a Pole Position bootleg board just for the parts and want to know if these bootleg boards would have/use any Namco Custom chips?

Custom Chips 00xx/04xx/07xx/11xx/12xx/51xx/
52xx/53xx/54xx/56xx

Cheers
 
Bootleg boards don't typically use custom ICs. You couldn't always just purchase them. A lot of bootleggers reverse engineered them so that off the shelf parts could be used. Some did such by making daughterboards (such as a weird hypersports bootleg I got). Others did such by building everything onto the board such as with Gallag (galaga bootleg) boards.

Doing some brief research, apparently Top Racer was a Pole Position bootleg, but I cannot find good pictures of the board to see if they somehow got cutom ICs. I've also been suprised before. I picked up an atari tetris bootleg years ago with real POKEYs.
 
I had a Top Racer PCB and if I remember correctly it did not have any custom chips, but I think there where multiple version of Top Racer (not sure).
 
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