Help identifying PCB's

gobsgraham

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I just picked up my first "lot" of arcade boards. There is about 50 boards and half of them aren't marked. Some have stickers or writing on them but some have nothing. I have found a few through searching for the boards model number A080-59XX whatever but there are a few that don't have any model numbers and some that don't even have a manufacturer. I don't want to piss everyone here off by asking about each board I can identify but am not sure where else to go for the tough ones.

My next question is what do I do with these. Most of them are not jamma so how do you test these to see if they are working. What do you guys do? Should I just sell them as is/probably not working and hope someone can salvage parts for them to repair their own boards? There are some good boards in here (Tron, Sinister, Dragon's Lair to name a few).
 
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Perhaps you should start by breaking them down by labeled / unlabeled, manufacturer, JAMMA / Non, etc. Read the EPROM labels!

If they are mostly non-JAMMA then you know what time frame they come from. Some manufacturers PCBs are pretty easy to ID (in general) due to how they make the PCB etching lines, etc.

That being said, it is going to take you some time.
 
Thanks. I have gotten most of the ones with EEPROM markings although some of them were a bit of work (Timber just marked TIMB). I guess I will just go through them all and maybe ask about the last 5 or 6 that I can't figure out.
 
nice..

nice score.
At this rate when arcades close, soon it will be more rare around here to find deals like that..
so few left and I dunno i love that adventure of picking up boards for testing later :)
I just picked up my first "lot" of arcade boards. There is about 50 boards and half of them aren't marked. Some have stickers or writing on them but some have nothing. I have found a few through searching for the boards model number A080-59XX whatever but there are a few that don't have any model numbers and some that don't even have a manufacturer. I don't want to piss everyone here off by asking about each board I can identify but am not sure where else to go for the tough ones.

My next question is what do I do with these. Most of them are not jamma so how do you test these to see if they are working. What do you guys do? Should I just sell them as is/probably not working and hope someone can salvage parts for them to repair their own boards? There are some good boards in here (Tron, Sinister, Dragon's Lair to name a few).
 
another suggestion.

Pictures of the boards front and back,
and when you get the game figured out would be awesome to have pics of front back of boards for future reference and maybe we can get a central pics data base
 
Here is a link to a site with many board pics.

http://www.crazykong.com/pcbs/


If you are willing to put forth the effort Jamma adaptors can be built for most boards but the time you spend building the adaptor may not be worth the difference in value selling the boards as working or non-working...
 
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