Mortal Kombat - "Turbo Ninja/Krazy Kombo" PCB

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Mortal Kombat - "Turbo Ninja/Krazy Kombo" PCB

Hey guys. I have known about this Midway produced hack for a long time. Here is a back story. Way back in 1993 when MK1 was leaving the arcades and MK2 was entering, Midway thought they's have some fun and released a 'hack' version of MK1 called "Turbo Ninja." I had never seen it in person, seen anyone play it, nor heard anyone talk about it very much. I heard of it a long time ago and have been looking low these many years for it. A couple weeks ago, I came across a listing on Ebay for "Mortal Kombat PCB: Tested/Working." Since I always browse for MK, I clicked on it and I was shocked to see that it was in fact the Turbo Ninja version. The seller had no idea that it was so rare, or they would have advertised it as such. I snagged it up and now am the proud owner of an extremely rare PCB. Here is some more info on it...

http://www.vm68.com/mkromhacks/mk_kombo.html

You can see from the following pics that this IS in fact what I received...

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And here are a couple videos of it in action...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxJ1vkHXdaY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpS06SgyWbU

Anyway, I just wanted to share with the other MK fans and whoever else never knew about this hack. Thanks for your time.





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image the roms!

Kevin


I could do that no problem, but there is a PAL security chip as well as some other type of processor on the little extra board that one would have to crack in order to get the dumped roms to work. Just dumping the roms and using them to replace the original t-unit roms won't work. I already tried it. You have to use the PAL chip and that processor chip WITH the Kombo roms in order for the hack to work properly.
 
Is the pal chip the silver one? If so it kinda looks like a crystal and if it is it may be able to be replicated. Would kinda make some since to be a crystal to speed up the game play. But maybe not.
 
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