Today's Name that CPU Board!

Pinwizkid

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What the heck is this? Looks like someone put an adapter on it to play in a... atari 2600? I'm confused.

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Thanks,
-BB
 
I ran into one that looked similar a while back, The one I ran into was a Donkey Kong boardset that was running in a Congorilla cabinet. The Atari cartridge looking part plugged into the Congorilla harness. I assumed it was a clone boardset, the levels played in different order than a normal DK board.
 
Agreed. Probably a bootleg Donkey Kong or something similar. That little board is just a fingerboard, a method of attaching a board like this to the edge connector harness in some other cabinet.

-Ian
 
Very well could be a bootleg. A few friends of mine thought it looked like a Nintendo board, but it has no markings or logos on it anywhere. Even the rom chips are just numbers.

-BB
 
Yeah, I'm also gonna say it's a Donkey Kong clone (but not Crazy Kong)...I have one that looks similar, although it's 3 boards, and the bottom board is huge. The top board looks just like the one in your 2nd pic (minus the little connector near the top...mine doesn't have those populated). I haven't fired mine up yet, but I got it from Steph, and he ran a few of the roms thru romident and said it was DK. It's got the same sound processor as DK (8035). CK uses an AY-3-8910 PSG for sound, so I know mine's not a CK clone.
 
I've yet to actually see any boards that had "Congorilla" in the game itself. I believe that was just used for the marquee and artwork. All the Congorilla cabs and kits I've seen recently were all just Crazy Kong (some with different versions).
Also, after looking at mine, I believe these DK bootlegs are just clones of a real DK 4-board stack, but mine actually has the audio half-sized board and the CPU board together as one, so it's only a 3-board stack (like if you mixed one half of a 2-board stack, and the other half of a 4-board stack of a regular DK board)
 
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