Untested Boards WTF

butthead

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Ebay Untested Boards Sell As Much As Working!!
I am going to shove rams,roms and whatever into my Untested Boards.
What do you need Untested?
 
Ha I know what you mean. I generally assume untested just means not working, but I did get lucky with an untested Skull and Crossbones pcb that turned out to work fine.
 
i sold a non working bagman board on here, then bought one from quarterarcade, and dude gets the board and it works.. wtf! It wouldn't work in my machine, but the one i got from quarterarcade did..
 
I haven't bought any untested from ebay, but I did from USENET years ago, and one recently from a KLOVer. The one from the KLOVer worked, but had a bad sound chip (AY-3-8910, a fairly common one). Swapped in a known good one and it was 100%. The other board I had for years before actually being able to test it. When I finally did test it, it had graphical glitches and also a bad sound chip (and missing some of the sound samples, unrelated to the sound chip). It was, however, a version of a game not in MAME, so even though the board didn't work 100%, I was glad I got it :) Unfortunately, it was supposed to be working 100% when I bought it.
 
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