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Rare MKII Revision 1.1 Roms finally surface

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bulldawg

Noob
I was going to post this earlier, I saw them and sent the link to smittdog @ mame. I asked the guy with the listing how much for them straight out and he said he would take them down for $250.00 geez.
 
YourMKArcadeSource

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He's never going to get asking price without proof that they are what he says they are. Without pictures to backup the roms, they could be ANYTHING. I think it's a scam.
 
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bulldawg

Noob
MK3fan said:
He's never going to get asking price without proof that they are what he says they are. Without pictures to backup the roms, they could be ANYTHING. I think it's a scam.
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Best thing to do is put in last minute bid if they are going cheap and hope for the best.
 
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xDisciplex

Mortal
I just got an email from him responding to my question to post pics or a video of the revision 1.1 coming up on screen. He then wrote back saying he's out of town and willing to do it but it won't be till Saturday when he gets back after the listing is over.

He did have the buy it now at 195 earlier today before anyone bid and I asked if he'd sell a backup or the 1.1 roms seperate and he said no, only as a lot.

We could hope it's a 1.1 set, but more than likely it's not.
 
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john2kx

Mortal
Yeah, paypal heavily favors the buyer in that situation.

I'm gonna watch this auction.... very interesting! :)
 
TerryMasters

TerryMasters

Mortal
I love how the only people outbidding each other for these, are us :p

For the record, I could dump these roms the day they get delivered provided they are what he says they are. If it gets too expensive though I won't bid for them. Kind of risky all things considered, the reprinted labels especially.
 
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bulldawg

Noob
TerryMasters said:
I love how the only people outbidding each other for these, are us :p

For the record, I could dump these roms the day they get delivered provided they are what he says they are. If it gets too expensive though I won't bid for them. Kind of risky all things considered, the reprinted labels especially.
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Well the thing to do in this situation is to decide on who is going to try to get them, aint no use in several of us bidding on them for the same cause and just giving this guy more money. If you are going to definitely bid then I want. I was going to put like a 50.00 max bid on them. Also the 3.2 roms could be the usa version and if so they are not dumped yet only 3.2 euro. Just let me know either way and if you dont and I get them i will send them to smittdog like I did the 3.00 mk2 roms.
 
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xDisciplex

Mortal
Yeah lets pick someone - I'm sure it was one of you who outbid me this morning :) I only put 10.75 in the other day and was gonna go quite a bit higher at end, but if bulldawg or Terry wants to go for it, that's cool with me. It's for the community anyway you know, that is IF they're legit.
 
TerryMasters

TerryMasters

Mortal
I don't mind going for it. I do think you guys should PM me with your thoughts though, just to be safe as I don't want any final bids to get out in the open. You know if I did and word got around that all of a sudden the auction would mysteriously be at a dime over it :p

Though I don't know what to do personally... should we keep quiet about this too? Normally I'd spam the crap out of some friends with this info but I think the more people that know about it the less chances we have of grabbing it. All we need is for someone to hoard em.

Edit- Not sure if this matters, but a lot of MK2 boards have roms with 1.1 labels on them, just not on the program ones. I'm really taking a risk because he specifically mentions sound roms in the auction as well, which I don't see in the picture (unless I missed it). Though all I've seen of them so far are U roms, which is a good thing if this guys custom printed labels are correct (J and G).
 
TerryMasters

TerryMasters

Mortal
I'm gonna go for them. I'm still pissed about that MK1 board... nobody seems to know what those roms are. Haven't heard back from the MAME team about them yet either but that's another story.

If this guy isn't getting home until Saturday it could be up to a week before they get to my house, but here's hoping for the best. Again these 1.1 roms, strangely only labelled J and G, could just be game roms as the original MKII boards had 1.1 J's and G's found slightly under the program ones:



It's a huge gamble, but what can I say. I live for danger *cool shades*
 
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iammud

Apprentice
I have a feeling this is legit! (watch it ends up being a complete scam, heh :D)

An arcade buddy of mine says he's seen the same stickers on other burned eproms from the 90s. If this is the case, those likely came from a professional bootlegger. In the 90s there were places to mail order bootlegs of eproms, which is what we're assuming these are from.

I also have my own type geek theory to back this; the font used for the 1.1 roms is Comic Sans, which was released in 1994. During that time EVERYONE was using that font for everything, it was ridiculous. Now a days the only people who use it are kids, and old people. I just can't imagine anyone now a days using it to print labels.

Plus, If he did dump a whole bootleg set of the eproms, and threw a fake 1.1 in there for good measure, why wouldn't he include 4.1?

*edit - Another thing, saving the original box from an official midway eprom set seems like someone who was serious into collecting. Plus dude's feedback seems pretty legit to me.

bulldawg said:
Also the 3.2 roms could be the usa version and if so they are not dumped yet only 3.2 euro.
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I'm pretty sure 3.2 was just a european release. There's no euro versions of 1.1-3.1, so chances are you had to import them till 3.2 was released there. Can anyone confirm any differences, or if there were earlier revisions marked for euro distribution?
 
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X820

Noob
Rev 3.2 is the only Euro version of MK2, and those are rare, even in the arcade days.

We had the same revisions you guys had (USA).

Rev 3.1 and 3.2 are to my knowledge identical.
 
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iammud

Apprentice
ScheissNussen said:
It looks like whoever made them just used a piece of junkmail and a drunken hand to cut the paper up.
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I felt the same way at first, until my buddy pointed that out. He's pretty legit on arcade stuff, with a near rainman like memory, so I trust his word. Plus, all 90s unofficial arcade stuff was ghetto like that.

I'm just trying to determine for myself if it's legit or not, cause I may go for this at all costs. My collection so needs to be one of the few with a 1.1 romset, just for a little while. :D Plus I'm drooling over that official midway eprom box!
 
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xDisciplex

Mortal
I think it'd be best if we can get one of us here to bid on it so we don't hike up the price for the cmk members here. If you're going for it mud, that's cool but you and Terry should sort it out, as long as this gets dumped if it is real that's all that matters to keep it preserved.
 
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iammud

Apprentice
I figure at 5:30pm anyone who is bidding on it will be here. I'll be honest in saying that if I get it I'll want to hoard it for a while, since I love having rare games. So it might be better if someone else gets it.
 
TerryMasters

TerryMasters

Mortal
Yeah, I thought we had established that I'd go for it... I'm just in this for the 1.1's preservation. I don't need any of the others so I may put them back on eBay, and hoarding isn't my thing to be honest.

I wouldn't want to be one of, 'those guys' - you know, one that tells everybody about the cool new board he got (say for instance, oh I don't know... a super rare 4.0 prototype of MK1) but then doesn't dump the roms for months after specifically mentioning he owns a rom burner.

I mean, how much would that guy suck? ;)


And I'm still skeptical about this. Even if it appears to be legit (the box could be from NFL Blitz for all we know), I don't think the guy selling it knows what he's talking about only because he mentions, 'sound and boot roms' though there are no sound roms in the picture. Like I said before, the rarity of the 1.1 program roms and the conveniently missing rom locations from most of the labels make me worry that the 1.1's are actually game roms which are found on most MKII boards. I don't know. I'll try to win the auction, like I said I can dump them the same day they get delivered. I'm just not getting my hopes up, but you never know.

Edit- Also, the 3.0's are missing from that set I believe.
 
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xDisciplex

Mortal
Nice burn Terry - but I am going to dump them, I get distracted easily here with my little one, almost 14 months old now. So she gets in everything now and I can't do anything arcade/game related with her during the day she throws this.

Hopefully I can work on it this weekend, sunday probably Saturday I'm watching my instructor fight on the main card of UFC 122 (Nate Marquardt).
 
TerryMasters

TerryMasters

Mortal
Haha I was just messin. It's almost over soon, here's hoping it's not too expensive... I'd hate to tell my mother I got her socks for Christmas because some douchebag put roms for sale (jk)
 
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