Help to Identify a bootleg Arkanoid board

farquh

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I bought a 'home made' Arkanoid table yesterday (was there ever an official Arkanoid table?)

It's well put together from a cocktail table design that you usually see Donkey Kong and Frogger games packaged in. The price was right, and the game plays great, but I'm thinking it HAS to be a bootlegged board.

First of all, there is no TAITO on the title screen. It is just blank where TAITO should be written. Also, there is a stage select where you can choose which level you want to start that happens before each and every game. Don't recall real Arkanoid having that! Tried fiddling with the dip switches to see if it is an option that can be turned off, but it doesn't appear so.

This website says the bootlegged board will have 'Tayto' instead of 'Taito,' so I am wondering if anyone can tell me anything about the board I'm describing. Also, the color seems to be darker than what the screen shots on this web site depict. My board is displaying a dark navy blue as opposed to sky blue background on stage one's game play. All of the other colors seem to be fine, so I don't think it's my monitor, but I'll have to play with it further to determine that.

I'll post pictures of it later, but I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about this board based on my description of it!

Thanks!
 
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Never played any Arkanoid on real hardware to be honest. Maybe when I was little, but I certainly wouldn't remember what color anything was.

Might be a good idea to grab all the sets for MAME, go through them and you'll probably be able to narrow down what boardset you have to at least one set of the bootlegs. If it comes up a tie between one set and the MCU set, check your hardware to narrow it down further.

Def a bootleg you have though if the Taito logo is missing, cause the logo is there even on the Romstar licensed boards.
 
I'm certain it is bootleg, I'll take a picture of it tonight if anyone is interested in seeing it.

I have a bootleg Tetris cab and I can't see a difference in the look of the game screens at all.

That is what surprised me about this one is how different it looks. I'll try and post a pic of the game play and you can compare them to the screen shots that KLOV has and you can see an obvious color difference.

Not that this is a big deal, I'm happy with the purchase and the machine works great, but just curious as to where it all came from!
 
That is what surprised me about this one is how different it looks. I'll try and post a pic of the game play and you can compare them to the screen shots that KLOV has and you can see an obvious color difference.

I've never heard of an Arkanoid board with any colour differences, so you may have a wiring or monitor problem with your cab.

One cab I bought was displaying strange colours and it turned out that the red and green colour output wires were swaped around, it may be something easy like that, post a pic and give us a look.
 
Thinking about what you said about the wires possibly being crossed that might be the cause of the color differences.

There is heavy monitor burn in the obvious places on this game - right where Arkanoid displays the score and where it says 'Game Over.'

I'm wondering if the original owner might have done this on purpose for that very reason. Arkanoid tends to have light color backgrounds, like a lot of sky blues, does it not? Mine seems to have a lot of deep green and navy blue. The 'Game Over' burn would probably show up and be way distracting during Arkanoid play if the backgrounds were of light color. As is with my darker back grounds, the burn is almost unnoticeable during game play.

Here is a pic of the board. Bootleg? Most definitely, right?

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Here's a look at the burn marks on the monitor -

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Here is my level #1 - It's hard to tell from my pic, but the background is a dark navy with the decorative triangle 'patterns' being only of slightly lighter navy. Level #1 should have a sky blue background, yes?

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Anyway, thanks for looking. Please tell me what you think!
 
The colours look correct, I think you just need to turn up the brightness on your monitor. Underneath the monitor is the monitor chassis, on it are several adjustable dials, one of which will be brightness. Be careful not to touch anything that will electrocute you!

That screen should look like this ->
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