It's time to play everyone's favorite game!!! ID THAT BOARD!!!!!

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It's time to play everyone's favorite game!!! ID THAT BOARD!!!!!

So I bought a large stash of Mortal Kombat boards and finally got them today. Inside I found a board labeled Mortal Kombat 1 on a tag and MK1 written in black marker on the PCB but i know for a fact that this is untrue!!

It's a non-jamma board so i really don't have any way of testing it.

so here it is!


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and if that wasn't enough here's the bonus round!!!

Name that Control Panel Sticker!!!

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Mortal Kombat (boot?)

SFII Stickers

What do I win?

it's not mortal kombat lol

You said you didn't want the pile of bones!!

edit: if that's street fighter which one is it (the sticker)??? i looked through the 50 or so different versions in the database and didn't see a CP that looked like it had these stickers (i also never noticed the kicks were labeled "short,forward, roundhouse"
 
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The board is probably some sort of Sega System 16B board, maybe?

(Actually, I just looked at 16B photos... Probably not.)
 
Did you try plugging the board in? Looks like it probably is jamma, and I would bet that it probably is a MK1 bootleg considering a few of those chips and that it came with a bunch of other MK pcbs.

it's not mortal kombat lol

You said you didn't want the pile of bones!!

edit: if that's street fighter which one is it (the sticker)??? i looked through the 50 or so different versions in the database and didn't see a CP that looked like it had these stickers (i also never noticed the kicks were labeled "short,forward, roundhouse"
 
The stickers:

http://www.videogameparts.com/product.sc?productId=848

I have a set of them.

As for the PCB, just used the markings on it, lol

weird, and thanks! i'd rep you but i did recently already :(

Did you try plugging the board in? Looks like it probably is jamma, and I would bet that it probably is a MK1 bootleg considering a few of those chips and that it came with a bunch of other MK pcbs.

haven't attempted to power it up yet and won't as i'm pretty sure it's not a jamma board, also it doesn't have header pins for the kick harness so doubtful it's a bootleg (never seen a bootleg before personally either cept the ones with rom hacks).
 
How are you so sure it is not a Mortal Kombat bootleg board if you can't test it?

Heres a photo of a confirmed MK bootleg - looks strikingly similar!

http://www.arcadegame.cz/vlastnim/pcb/arcade_pcb_mortal_kombat.jpg

It looks JAMMA to me, boards of this era almost always were.

hey thanks, that's a first for me! i'm not sure if i even want to power it up, and how the hell do you low punch/low kick????

This post: http://classicmk.com/index.php?topic=1743.msg42449#msg42449

Shows the same PCB as yours in the google image cache but the original is no longer on Flickr.

I win! :beerchug:

EDIT: Here is the Google Image Cache. Its about halfway in the center.


ohh cool, maybe i will power it up, or frame it in plexi somehow and hang it on the wall lol

I think Womble beat you to it tho. IMO both of you win!
 
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wow i guess i'm having a "slow" day, didn't register that (Boot?) stood for bootleg lol tbombaci is the winner, with an avatar like that how can i deny it.

I guess we can rename this post School me on Mortal Kombat Bootlegs..... (cause i've been schooled all over this thread lol).
 
wow i guess i'm having a "slow" day, didn't register that (Boot?) stood for bootleg lol tbombaci is the winner, with an avatar like that how can i deny it.

I guess we can rename this post School me on Mortal Kombat Bootlegs..... (cause i've been schooled all over this thread lol).

LOL.

BTW, "Broodwich" my wife's favorite episode.
 
There are a number of unused pins in the JAMMA standard on the connector at the other end from the power pins. These were blank on a true JAMMA harness but are often labelled as NeoGeo on labels as SNK used them for extra buttons on the NG platform. It is possible that the bootleggers did the same and the normally header supported buttons are connected there negating the need for the header.
 
What? the Blair Witch!?

sorry bout that, didn't get my milk from the teat of a fanged cow today. it's definitely one of my personal fav's including hand banana and any one with MC PeePee Pants.

unfortunately i always depin those wires on the jamma edge connector but i guess what everyones saying is i should power it up? :D
 
I'm hesitant to power this guy up as there looks to be a resistor network (thanks womble) soldered in where the 2 boards mate on one side, however it's not in the one that womble linked.

womble's link: http://www.arcadegame.cz/vlastnim/pcb/arcade_pcb_mortal_kombat.jpg

i guess there's a few other dis-similarities between the two so maybe that's suppose to be there on mine, but it does seem damaged. guess i just need to put on my big boy pants and suck it up (tomorrow...).
 
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Let my curiosity get the best of me today, pulled the key from my edge connector. game works great, plays perfect, i get a custom chip error in the board test but i figure that's just because it's bootleg. Played a few games and bagged/boxed it back up lol, key's back in my edge connector where it belongs.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Here's a pic (excuse my shaky hand, had to hold the test button down in my spider-man cab to keep it in test). it's just 3.0 so nothing special but still very neat!
 

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I had that same bootleg and sent it to the mame team. It is based off 3.0 but some sounds are different and the character sprites are larger than a normal 3.0.
 
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