TerryMasters
Noob
http://cgi.ebay.com/Midway-MORTAL-KOMBAT-video-arcade-game-pcb-JAMMA-/310264703319?pt=UK_Video_Games_Coin_Operated_MJ&hash=item483d37a957
I'm a collector of special game boards; prototypes, betas, bootlegs, the works. What I do, is dig into these boards to find the differences between them. And if my theory is correct, this board is a prototype.
If you look at the board you'll see it's clearly a Y-Unit - the older version of the board. In the video of the Proto 4 thread, you can see the title screen text is colored green. The next highest up, emulated version of the game (Proto 8 ), has blue text, and this trend stayed with the game through every revision until 5.0. This board has green text.
Which means for this Y-Unit board to have green text, it would have to be anything Proto 7 or under. So unless MAME is emulating the title screen incorrectly, this board is an undumped beta.
I wanted to post this before it fell through the cracks.
I'm a collector of special game boards; prototypes, betas, bootlegs, the works. What I do, is dig into these boards to find the differences between them. And if my theory is correct, this board is a prototype.
If you look at the board you'll see it's clearly a Y-Unit - the older version of the board. In the video of the Proto 4 thread, you can see the title screen text is colored green. The next highest up, emulated version of the game (Proto 8 ), has blue text, and this trend stayed with the game through every revision until 5.0. This board has green text.
Which means for this Y-Unit board to have green text, it would have to be anything Proto 7 or under. So unless MAME is emulating the title screen incorrectly, this board is an undumped beta.
I wanted to post this before it fell through the cracks.