Duramold Williams Blaster with Proto roms

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I am working on this for a friend and neither of us noticed the proto labels on the roms until today . It works and plays great now . What i need to know is are these roms something to be excited about ? There seems to be a mix of proto 5 and proto 6 , may have been a 4 mixed in as well .
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I though it was pretty normal for the low production williams games have proto labeled roms.I know turkey shoot had them. I think the others like mystic marathon, joust 2, star rider and blaster did too.
 
The excitement was short lived but fun . I wonder why they would go through the trouble of putting the additional proto stickers on the roms instead of just assigning them a rom revision number .
Don
 
I remember Duncan Brown on RGVAC posted the 30 wave Blaster proto roms several years ago. Dont know if its the same as what you have.
 
The Blaster that I am fixing up to sell has the same ProtoROMs as well.


The only way to know what they really are is to read them with a burner, and look at the checksums. Comparing them to any existing ROMs (and/or the existing checksums in MAME) will tell you if the code is actually different or not.
 
Every Blaster I've ever owned or seen has proto ROM labels. They're commonly found in many Williams pins as well.

At some point they probably make the call to largely stop development because they realize the game won't earn as much, or other projects are better served with that time, and they just continue with the existing code. No reason to change the name.
 
I have a Blaster with regular roms and another rom board with proto roms.
I'm a regular Blaster player, i played for many years back in the arcade days.
The game with proto roms show more different levels and it' much more harder to play.
There's 30 levels to reach the paradise instead of 20 for the production version.
 
I have a Blaster with regular roms and another rom board with proto roms.
I'm a regular Blaster player, i played for many years back in the arcade days.
The game with proto roms show more different levels and it' much more harder to play.
There's 30 levels to reach the paradise instead of 20 for the production version.


That's very cool.

It would be nice to get both sets dumped, documented, and available, so folks could play both.
 
Shertz.... i think that was more than several years ago.... I'm remembering the proto rom set with 30 levels (rather than 20 was) showed up sometime around 2001ish - 2002ish...

I remember Duncan Brown on RGVAC posted the 30 wave Blaster proto roms several years ago. Dont know if its the same as what you have.
 
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