PCB ID help: Caution, it's a hard one!

ifkz

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Okay, here is the PCB. I can tell it's early, it has 2764 EPROMS. The only clue is silkscreened onto the board: PY01-1. It has an old sticker too: 83 0412 Aik. I guess this is a date code and the person that tested it. I also guess it is a bootleg of some sort.

Any ideas?

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I'm guessing that you've plugged it into a jamma cab and powered it on, yes? Is it not working, or is this a trivia game to see who can ID the board? You can try pulling a ROM, downloading the code, and doing a ROMident as well if you don't know what it is.
 
It's not JAMMA, and I need to learn how to use ROMident. Time to start, eh? Good thing I just purchased an EPROM programmer. Anyone else have an idea?
 
Using my newly purchased EPROM programmer and Romident (thanks Hypersport!), I identified this board as a Popeye bootleg. Yuck!
 
Congrats! Hey, a bootleg popeye is better than no PopEye at all!
 
If only I liked Popeye! This is going back to the nice local KLOV'er that gave it to me as he has a Popeye and might be able to test it and/or include it with his machine when it goes up for sale. A happy ending for all.
 
If only I liked Popeye! This is going back to the nice local KLOV'er that gave it to me as he has a Popeye and might be able to test it and/or include it with his machine when it goes up for sale. A happy ending for all.

If it's like most of the other Nintendo bootlegs, it won't use inverted video and it has its own sound amplifier onboard (so you have to be careful plugging it into a real Nintendo cab). It does look like it might have the sound amplifier, as there's a pot up there by the dipswitches.
 
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