How hard is it to change a Pacmania into a Dragon Spirit?

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How hard is it to change a Pacmania into a Dragon Spirit?

Was looking to see how many chips would need to be replaced as well as the cost to change one from the other.
Any help would be appreciated.
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New program roms,gfx roms, sound roms, change the jumpers...and i think you're good. Look up the Dragon Spirit manual or even the Galaga 88 manual will give you a good idea.
 
I'll take a look, but isn't most of the manual in Japanese?
I can't remember off the top of my head.
What do you think the cost would be to get all of the pieces to change it?

New program roms,gfx roms, sound roms, change the jumpers...and i think you're good. Look up the Dragon Spirit manual or even the Galaga 88 manual will give you a good idea.
 
Galaga 88 is in English, just do the conversion instructions in reverse.
Not sure of a cost, can't be that much though
 
Ok. Thanks for the info.
Was debating on converting a Pacmania to a Dragon Spirit.
If anyone can chime in on what the cost would be to make one into the other, please let me know.


Galaga 88 is in English, just do the conversion instructions in reverse.
Not sure of a cost, can't be that much though
 
if you know that the boards are exactly the same other than the ROMs then you really only need to figure out exactly which chips were used and price them out. You can go to any rom burning service to have the ROMs burned to the ICs.
 
The Galaga 88 manual does tell you which chips to change for all 3 games. I just changed a DS to G88 last week. DS has about 30 chips, G88 had almost half that and Pacmania has even less.
 
if you know that the boards are exactly the same other than the ROMs then you really only need to figure out exactly which chips were used and price them out. You can go to any rom burning service to have the ROMs burned to the ICs.

The board for all 3 games are exactly the same. They were intended to have the chips swapped to change the game or the manual wouldn't tell you which chips you need to change to have which game.
 
Thanks Prairiedillo (John) and Terminator, I know that both boards are interchangeable, I was just trying to find out the cost of all the roms necessary to change the board out.
I currently do not have a rom burner, so I would need to purchase all the roms necessary to change the board from one to the other.
Thus I was asking what the cost of all the roms that I need would be from someone here on the board.

The board for all 3 games are exactly the same. They were intended to have the chips swapped to change the game or the manual wouldn't tell you which chips you need to change to have which game.
 
Sorry for the necrobump, but what about Dangerous Seed. I haven't seen a patch for that game
 
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