***** FS: Killer Instinct II PCB

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FS: Killer Instinct II PCB SOLD!!!

Sold!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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I certainly would not ever pay $300+ for a KI2 board. You can get full kits for around $200. Tomorrow morning I am going to a local op's warehouse to pic up an unopened KI2 kit for $180 because he says he has been sitting on it for 2 years. Sometimes you can find kits on here for around $200 as well.
 
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Wish I could. The only thing that would have made me happier is if I could have snatched up Luke's, but the King got him 10min. after he posted. BTW Luke, can you put the price you sold it for back up there as a future reference. Thanks.
 
Id actually like to hear from the buyer if this turned out working. I once found a KI1 board/hdd combo on ebay for $80. Guy sold it as untested, and I took a chance. It worked fine. Once I decided to sell it (I never should have) it went for something like $250 on ebay.

Ive regretted selling it every moment since. I really want that board back.
 
Buying an "untested" or "not working" KI / KI2 board is an interesting gamble, and having bought many in my time, I've found that there IS a very real science to it:

Rule 1)

If the seller is someone who buys and sells arcade stuff for a living, and they call it untested, that is a lie. It's tested alright, and it's dead, 99 percent of the time it's a blown surface mount CPU, that's gonna cost about as much to repair as it's worth. PASS on this at any asking price over $10 (scrap cost for EPROMs).

Rule 2 )

If the seller is, to your satisfaction, someone who is purely a hobbyist who does not know how to debug/repair PCBs, this may be a working board with a dead HD. Be sure to get pictures. You are looking to be sure all the original EPROMs are populated on the board, that the heat sink is not missing/melted off the CPU, and in the case of a KI1 board running KI2 roms, that the Ki1-Ki2 daughtercard is installed. (Actually, the presence of this card now makes the board worth $50 in scrap alone for that card). Most importantly, look to see if the drive is the original, ugly drive in the plastic enclosure. If so, I'd say it's about an 80% chance the board is good and the drive is bad, and the other 20% of the time the board is dead, and again, virtually all dead KI boards are not easy, do-it-yourself repairs unless you have a high-end surface mount component reworking station and a source for very hard to find parts; so here, you're taking an 80/20 gamble for a good deal, which mathematically (to borrow the math from poker) is at about $1-$100 or so (keep in mind you will need to invest about $15-20 in parts to put a compact flash card on that board!)
 
^^^this.

I dont believe theres a such thing as an untested jamma board, unless its mad bulk, but still a game of that value doesn't go untested by anyone with a shred of knowledge of the hobby
 
^^^this.

I dont believe theres a such thing as an untested jamma board, unless its mad bulk, but still a game of that value doesn't go untested by anyone with a shred of knowledge of the hobby

It was tested by someone here on the board in one of their machines and I was told the hard drive was bad. Now this item is sold and this thread closed have a good one
 
I dont think anyone was poo-pooing the sale. :)

They were just chatting about tested/nontested stuff. Glad to hear that the board worked! Great deal on it too.
 
It was an awesome deal!! I wish I could have grabbed it. $50 board plus a $35 IDE kit or flash kit, $85 for a working KI2 board! It's those type of deals that's make this a great hobby! I'm sure the buyer will be telling that story every time he plays that game with someone. Like I do with my $40 Robotron!
 
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and i do with my 20$ k.i. 1!

and yeah dude, no one is talkin down to you. i was just commenting on untested jamma boards that are highly valuable and sought after. ive been on the road the last week, and missed this. pretty much kicking myself in the balls because i would have bought it in a damn heartbeat.
 
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