Scramble rom swap to Super Cobra?

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So, is Super Cobra just a ROM swap of a Scramble PCB?

If that is true - what other ROM-swappable games are there for Scramble? I somehow ended up with (4) scramble PCBs and I'd rather use them than sell them!

Thanks
 
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The remaining rom was 2C on the main PCB. Is this conversion a simple ROM
swap? I've heard many games will run on the Scramble hardware, but there
are differences IC-wise between groups of Konami / Stern PCBs. Is Scramble
the most compatible? I've got extras of most of these sets to try:

STERN / KONAMI PCB TYPES
1. The End (unique hardware, but ROMs will run in a Scramble board- with the
player's missile invisible)
2. Scramble
3. Super Cobra / Lost Tomb / Armored Car / Moon War (and Tazzmania / Dark
Planet and Tago's Anteater & Calipso??)- I think these are all rom
swapable - I've got a Lost Tomb running on a Super Cobra board. There are
two types of boards but I think the difference is just the connector between
the sound and main pcb(?)
4. Amidar / Turtles / Strategy-X - These are rom swapable
5. Jungler / Locomotion?(I don't have one)
6. Frogger (unique Sega Hardware?)
7. After this, newer boards types such as Tutankham, Gyruss and Time Pilot
are all unique(?)

Did I miss any?

Timothy


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I don't think any of those are just simple ROM swaps...
there's always some bit of hacking that needs to be done.
Have you actually done Amidar<->Turtles? (I never tried it)
I remember trying ROM swaps on a Super Cobra board
years ago... some games would boot, but they were not playable.

Sound boards are interchangeable between similar games,
but it seems that the CPU boards all had minor diffs just to
be annoying.

Matt

My Scramble board has a normal Z80 CPU... My Super Cobra has a ribbon cable and a big black block CPU that bolts to the bottom of the cab.

Mike looks like this one....
SuperCobra_1.jpg


But the one on crazykong.com does not have the "black box"
SuperCobra.pcb.jpg


I tried using a Z80 in there....... but no go... I lost interest in loosing the box... next I was going to try re-burning roms, thinking I may have encrypred roms, and the cpu box somehow fit into the picture that way.

Probubly didn't, but hope this helped...

-Mike
 
My Scramble board has a normal Z80 CPU... My Super Cobra has a ribbon cable and a big black block CPU that bolts to the bottom of the cab.

Mike looks like this one....
SuperCobra_1.jpg


But the one on crazykong.com does not have the "black box"
SuperCobra.pcb.jpg


I tried using a Z80 in there....... but no go... I lost interest in loosing the box... next I was going to try re-burning roms, thinking I may have encrypred roms, and the cpu box somehow fit into the picture that way.

Probubly didn't, but hope this helped...

-Mike

The board on top is a Konami version, and the board on the bottom is a Stern version. They are NOT interchangable. You can swap them in a cab, and that is about it.
 
So based on the above post, it appears that I can't put Super Cobra ROMs in a Scramble boardset, is that a correct interpretation?

Oh well.

Thanks
 
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