goatdan
Member
Hey everyone - I'm new here, but not new to arcade collecting. I'm actually one of the guys behind the MGC, so you may have met me there. I recently picked up a couple games with a buddy of mine, and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on them.
The games were purchased ultimately from someone who bought a house from a programmer at Williams. I don't know how long ago this was, but the two machines are both JAMMA four player cabinets. One of them is a prototype (with the "X" in front of the serial number) and it had a working NBA Jam board in it. My buddy took that one.
The game that I kept isn't a prototype, but it has in it a funky board. This board isn't firing up -- it has chips in it that was "WWF Dev Chip" and it also has a bunch of "2-on-2 Open Ice" chips in it. The board itself appears to be something like those two JAMMA boards, except on the side opposite where the JAMMA plug is, there is a little board that seems to be like an interconnect or something. It also is totally filled with chips where those two boards aren't. Off the interconnect board are two extremely long ribbon cables -- so long that I can take them from the back of the machine out to the control panel. They look like they are from hard drives or something similar, but neither Wrestlemania nor Open Ice used those.
Just in case this board has something funky and / or cool on it, I want to be careful about what I'm doing. If I plug in another JAMMA board, it boots up just fine. With this board in, I get the sound "bong" and no picture. Any ideas on how to proceed with this? I'll try to get a picture up in the not too distant future, but I don't have easy access to do that right now...
The games were purchased ultimately from someone who bought a house from a programmer at Williams. I don't know how long ago this was, but the two machines are both JAMMA four player cabinets. One of them is a prototype (with the "X" in front of the serial number) and it had a working NBA Jam board in it. My buddy took that one.
The game that I kept isn't a prototype, but it has in it a funky board. This board isn't firing up -- it has chips in it that was "WWF Dev Chip" and it also has a bunch of "2-on-2 Open Ice" chips in it. The board itself appears to be something like those two JAMMA boards, except on the side opposite where the JAMMA plug is, there is a little board that seems to be like an interconnect or something. It also is totally filled with chips where those two boards aren't. Off the interconnect board are two extremely long ribbon cables -- so long that I can take them from the back of the machine out to the control panel. They look like they are from hard drives or something similar, but neither Wrestlemania nor Open Ice used those.
Just in case this board has something funky and / or cool on it, I want to be careful about what I'm doing. If I plug in another JAMMA board, it boots up just fine. With this board in, I get the sound "bong" and no picture. Any ideas on how to proceed with this? I'll try to get a picture up in the not too distant future, but I don't have easy access to do that right now...

