WTB: Working Sega After Burner PCB

There's a guy that makes a kit for Afterburner where you can play space barrier and a couple other games if you wanted to skip replacing your pcb
I think it's called smarty pi.
 
There's a guy that makes a kit for Afterburner where you can play space barrier and a couple other games if you wanted to skip replacing your pcb
I think it's called smarty pi.

Unfortunately the SmartyPi kits haven't been available for a while now. you would need to fab one.
 
Well that's unfortunate! Here that was always an idea in the back of my had if I found a deal and some hidden square footage.
 
First time I hear about this, so its basically a replacement for the real pcb and can also play other games?

If so, wish they would make more, would like one for super hang on and after burner.
 
I have these for afterburner and super hang on. Great option. you do need the "filter" board that goes between pcb and cab wiring (bunch of headers etc) with afterburner so you can in effect replace pcb in cage with supplied extensions with this but you can't plug it directly into the cab without that board.
 
I have these for afterburner and super hang on. Great option. you do need the "filter" board that goes between pcb and cab wiring (bunch of headers etc) with afterburner so you can in effect replace pcb in cage with supplied extensions with this but you can't plug it directly into the cab without that board.

I hadn't heard of this, just for a knowledge interest can you expand on this and why Afterburner is different? Fascinating.
 
I hadn't heard of this, just for a knowledge interest can you expand on this and why Afterburner is different? Fascinating.
I think they all need the filter board between them. It's more of an interconnect really. The reason I listed that specifically is because I had purchased the smartypi after getting my AB boards fixed and upgraded to the plus romset. I expected I'd be able to plug directly into cab but you can't. You need to use the interconnect board from the cage to interface between smarty and the cab.

I am not sure that super hang on requires the same but expect it will. I have not yet installed smarty in SHA as I want to get original boards working 100% before I unplug them and use smarty in its place for reliability but also for other games. I expect it will be the same install as AB
 
Thanks for the info. My goal is to have modern backups for all my games even if they aren't perfect, I don't want my games down while the board gets fixed.
 
Waiting for the open source version of SmartyPi. In the mean time looking for an original PCB.
 
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