Street Fighter Zero - Phoenix it?

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I've got this Street Fighter Zero CPS2 board that I haven't been able to sell for the past year. I hate to leave it sitting around so I was thinking about Phoenixing the PCB. Thoughts?
 
Is it dead? If not, just replace the battery. You can always phoenix a board, but you can never go back to original.
 
Is it dead? If not, just replace the battery. You can always phoenix a board, but you can never go back to original.

That's the thing, its not dead so I would be killing a working board. I just figure if I can't sell the thing for $35 then I should just kill it and run another game.
 
That's the thing, its not dead so I would be killing a working board. I just figure if I can't sell the thing for $35 then I should just kill it and run another game.

It's a b board right, you shouldn't have a problem getting 35$ for it
 
Phoenix won't change it to another game. It just removes the need for the security key that is held working by the battery.
 
The only way I would consider doing that is if another game of higher value had an eat up board with a battery leak.
 
From a monetary standpoint, It's not worth it to phoeinix SFA... The b-board is worth $35 tops.

I'd only phoenix it if you were obsessed with SFA.
 
Its not as easy to convert the game to a different one as you may think. For one, Alpha uses a early revision of the b-board which requires hacking to get it to work with later games. Second, you need the pal chip that works with the game you want. Chances are the game you want has a different pal than Alpha. Third, you need to know the jumper setting for the new game.

As stated by Witchboard its really on worth trying if you need a donor and can just swap chips. I've done about 4 donor conversions. I've only done one complete conversion and that was making a SF Anniversary from a Vampire Savior. The parts alone cost over $100. Not to mention my programmer does 27C322 chips VERY slowly.
 
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