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General Chat => Technical Area => Topic started by: Elgen on April 07, 2014, 12:43:38 AM

Title: Bubble Bobble Lost Cave & REDUX on same bootleg PCB
Post by: Elgen on April 07, 2014, 12:43:38 AM
http://elgensrepairs.blogspot.dk/2014/04/bubble-bobble-lost-cave-redux-on-same.html
Title: Re: Bubble Bobble Lost Cave & REDUX on same bootleg PCB
Post by: level42 on April 07, 2014, 11:02:21 PM
Nice !

Of course a well known trick but still nice to see it done and working.

Still have plans to do the same trick with "slow bullets" and "fast bullets"  Berzerk on one board...
Title: Re: Bubble Bobble Lost Cave & REDUX on same bootleg PCB
Post by: Elgen on April 08, 2014, 08:15:10 AM
Quote from: Level42 on April 07, 2014, 11:02:21 PM
Of course a well known trick but still nice to see it done and working.
You're quite right. However, it's not very often I see this done on arcade boards... Seen it done lots of times with BIOSes on Amigas, C64s etc.
Maby it's because the hardware has to be precisely the same, and that often is not the case with arcade boards?!
Title: Re: Bubble Bobble Lost Cave & REDUX on same bootleg PCB
Post by: level42 on April 08, 2014, 02:11:02 PM
Yes exactly. That's also why it won't be possible to do Frenzy on Berzerk hardware f.i., there is one board different. But two versions of Berzerk is very cool, it's actually amazing how much the games' character changes because of these pretty basic differences in behavior of some of the game elements.

Might have been handier to wire the switch to something you can reach easier on the cab ?
Title: Re: Bubble Bobble Lost Cave & REDUX on same bootleg PCB
Post by: Elgen on April 08, 2014, 02:34:00 PM
Quote from: Level42 on April 08, 2014, 02:11:02 PM
Might have been handier to wire the switch to something you can reach easier on the cab ?
Details smetails... I'm more of a proof-of-concept type-of-guy };-P