WTB Jamma Pac or Ms. Pac Bootleg

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Hi everyone, I'm looking to get another Jamma Ms. Pac (and regular Pac-Man) bootleg.

I have the "Made in Greece" bootleg of Ms. Pac and another one of those or one of its variants (some of them have "ELECTRONICS" or "FORCE ELECTRONICS" printed on the board) would be really helpful.

I know some variations of this board run regular Pac, and because I don't yet have just Pac it'd be nice to have as well.

Not sure if a Pac Plus bootleg exists but I doubt it, which is a shame since I actually prefer that version of standard Pac-Man.
 
Why not a regular Ms. Pac/Pac with a JAMMA adapter?

That's a good question. The reason is because the bootleg board I currently have has a slightly screwy color palette (you can see this in mame if you load up "Ms. Pac-Man Made in Greece Bootleg") and I wanted a duplicate of this board to figure out how to correct the colors, since I think it has something to do with a set of resistors on the board being the wrong values.

A regular Pac/Ms. Pac with a jamma adapter would be nice but I'm not sure yet if I need it, since it'd end up being a trail of expenses in an "if you give a mouse a cookie" kinda way.
 
... ISTR there may be two colors swapped at the edge connecter also. Its been a long while since I modified one to match the original.

Looks like it was not resistors, but a bad 82S123 color prom.

Updating with my notes from fixing these:

GRN, BLU - They come with the blue and green colors swapped on
the JAMMA connector. Best way I've found to fix this
is to cut on the back of the board from where the resistors
all connect near 7F. Swap the 2 pins with the 3 connected
pins, by cutting the traces and jumpering between them.
Colors - Bad 7F prom. You can actually reburn the one that
is there, if you disable the blank check on you programmer.

Hope this helps.
 
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