FS: Tested & working GALAGA 88 boardset

No offense and I don't mean to price police. But your asking price is a little high for what they have been going for lately. Thats not to say that it isn't cheap for what they used to go for, but I think I have seen 4 or 5 sell for 125 ish over the last 6 months. And again, no disrespect intended. I just thought you might want to know. Best of luck with your sale.
 
atleast he is way under the guy a little while back askin 275.00.. I just paid like 165.00 for one and was happy at that... fun as hell game, works great in original galaga cab with a jamma adapter..
 
Re: galaga 88 pcb

Sell your board for what you think it's worth. Don't listen to the price police on here
There have been a few on eBay lately around and above what you are asking.
It's a fair price and I'm sure someone will take it for $185 shipped.

Good luck with your sale
 
No offense and I don't mean to price police. But your asking price is a little high for what they have been going for lately. Thats not to say that it isn't cheap for what they used to go for, but I think I have seen 4 or 5 sell for 125 ish over the last 6 months. And again, no disrespect intended. I just thought you might want to know. Best of luck with your sale.


or you could convert it to splatterhouse and sell it for $350+..
 
No offense and I don't mean to price police. But your asking price is a little high for what they have been going for lately. Thats not to say that it isn't cheap for what they used to go for, but I think I have seen 4 or 5 sell for 125 ish over the last 6 months. And again, no disrespect intended. I just thought you might want to know. Best of luck with your sale.

wow man, get a life
 
No offense and I don't mean to price police. But your asking price is a little high for what they have been going for lately. Thats not to say that it isn't cheap for what they used to go for, but I think I have seen 4 or 5 sell for 125 ish over the last 6 months. And again, no disrespect intended. I just thought you might want to know. Best of luck with your sale.


Due to added cost of paying salary for price police the boardset is now $185 + 10 shipping.

Thanks
 
or you could convert it to splatterhouse and sell it for $350+..

Funny you should mention that. I actually emailed hobby roms with that very idea. Here is his reply:
" I hate to pop your balloon,
but I'm not sure you can easily convert a sys1 board from game to another.

As I understand it, although they share a similar PCB,
most of these game have custom chips which are specific for each game,
so a rom swap would not work.

Besides, SplatterHouse has 30 eproms, including 19 special 27c1000 eproms
( mask-compatible ) which are much harder to find and therefore more expensive.
(... they cost me $8ea to buy, so my lowest selling price, programmed, would be $10 each )

So the full romset would be about $250. ... hardly cost-effective.

I guess there is a reason why this game is so expensive... sorrry. "
 
well, I know it can be done as my galaga 88 was converted.. I can't say who did it, but it can be done. I am sure its just a matter of eproms and bypassing or copying security chips..

I meant it as a joke in repsponse to the price police post.. But if galaga 88 would not work, then assualt or one of the others might..

but even at $250, it might be cost effective. splatterhouse is up on ebay buy it now for $500... But I would guess finding cheaper chips to use(or reuse) would make things easier.

Funny you should mention that. I actually emailed hobby roms with that very idea. Here is his reply:
" I hate to pop your balloon,
but I'm not sure you can easily convert a sys1 board from game to another.

As I understand it, although they share a similar PCB,
most of these game have custom chips which are specific for each game,
so a rom swap would not work.

Besides, SplatterHouse has 30 eproms, including 19 special 27c1000 eproms
( mask-compatible ) which are much harder to find and therefore more expensive.
(... they cost me $8ea to buy, so my lowest selling price, programmed, would be $10 each )

So the full romset would be about $250. ... hardly cost-effective.

I guess there is a reason why this game is so expensive... sorrry. "
 
I'd definitively like to see a good HD closeup of your board and a HD pic of a dedicated Splatterhouse. That game is so rare, I would consider getting the roms burned if I knew it would work. I even posted a while back trying to dig up info on a possible conversion. I think the last one on ebay sold for like 350. Although, I agree with the other guy about it really being worth 250-300, but I would like to see some definitive info on possible conversions. One more option in getting a copy. I did hear that Pacmania is different than Galaga 88 due to some extra custum chips so I am apt to believe what Steph at hobbyroms told me. My original question to him was about possible donor boards being used and if the info could be gathered from mame files.

Oh yeah: Best I can tell, Assault is an entirely different family of boards according to system 16. System 1 vs. System 2.

well, I know it can be done as my galaga 88 was converted.. I can't say who did it, but it can be done. I am sure its just a matter of eproms and bypassing or copying security chips..

I meant it as a joke in repsponse to the price police post.. But if galaga 88 would not work, then assualt or one of the others might..

but even at $250, it might be cost effective. splatterhouse is up on ebay buy it now for $500... But I would guess finding cheaper chips to use(or reuse) would make things easier.
 
oops my bad, my pacmania is a conversion from I think galaga 88. Now that I think about it, I might not have a galaga 88 at all(klov says I don't)..

I was just digging through my system 1 and system 2 boards the other day and I have an extra cosmo gang that has a graphic glitch and a doa assualt. The only boards I did not get to is my pacmania and tank force as they in my generic jamma cab. If I have a galaga 88, its in the same cab as those two. I will probably check on wed..

yes your right assualt and cosmo gang are system 2.

I'd definitively like to see a good HD closeup of your board and a HD pic of a dedicated Splatterhouse. That game is so rare, I would consider getting the roms burned if I knew it would work. I even posted a while back trying to dig up info on a possible conversion. I think the last one on ebay sold for like 350. Although, I agree with the other guy about it really being worth 250-300, but I would like to see some definitive info on possible conversions. One more option in getting a copy. I did hear that Pacmania is different than Galaga 88 due to some extra custum chips so I am apt to believe what Steph at hobbyroms told me. My original question to him was about possible donor boards being used and if the info could be gathered from mame files.

Oh yeah: Best I can tell, Assault is an entirely different family of boards according to system 16. System 1 vs. System 2.
 
You would not fetch top dollar for a conversion/bootleg of Splatterhouse unless one or more of these scenarios came to fruition:

a)Ebay is full of ham-fisted idiots, who will punch the bid button without reading, and one of them wins your auction
b)You were dishonest and did not disclose that it was a conversion
c)You located original Splatterhouse Namco ROMs and converted the PCB (i've seen a few sets show up on YJ auctions)

Unfortunately (for the buyer), the first scenario would likely play out, since people just don't know what to look for when buying a genuine PCB.

There is an ebay seller who has been knowingly churning out Ghouls-N-Ghosts bootlegs for over two years. Sure, the PCB is an original Capcom CPS-1 A+B board, but the ROMs are not original.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220632479931#ht_499wt_1156

There is nothing wrong with converting one or selling it, but you will be rolling the dice when it comes to fetching what an original commands monetarily.
 
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There is nothing wrong with converting one or selling it, but you will be rolling the dice when it comes to fetching what an original commands monetarily.

I'd just like to have one to play for my collection and quite frankly, I doubt I could win one off ebay to save my life. And with people paying crazy dollars for them at the moment(350+), it seems easier to build one than it does to buy one. But considering that some of the system 1 boards have differing chips(other than roms), I wish someone knew if any would work for a conversion. And for those that are interested, here is the entire list of possible donors.

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=524
 
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