arcade JAMMA boards
Today, while cleaning out the closet, I have found two old jamma arcade boards.
I bought the boards a few years ago at "Mercatino del Bastione" in Cagliari but then moved to Germany and ended up never playing with them :( There are many tutorials online on how to connect a Jamma board to a standard TV via SCART. One day, when I have time, I will create the converter to finally test them.
Both games are today perfectly emulated by M.A.M.E.
The first arcade board should be Final Crash, a bootleg created by the company Playmark during the 90s. It is actually an illegal copy of the famous CAPCOM's arcade game "Final Fight".
some details of the hardware board
The board uses off-the-shelf components.
This is how the title screen should look like
which is actually a hack of the very famous game Final Fight
The CAPCOM logo has been removed and the title screen hacked (the game name changed from Final Fight to Final Crash).
Except for this, the game is identical to the original Final Fight.
The second board is an "almost" unknown game called "World Rally". I bought this board because it war original (read not pirated es Final Crash :P) and because it was in very good conditions (unused board still in it's original package).
The board is from 1993 (as written on the PCB). The game is developed by spanish company Gaelco, which also developed the more famous title "Radikal bikers", which I love, by the way! but was at that time hard to find :(
Here is the board, with also the plastic "feet" to fix the board to the arcade wooden cabinet.
My board is number 20796
Details of the chips on the board. Some of them are custom chips from Gaelco.
one of them says Portugal
The audio chip is also from Gaelco
It seems that Gaelco has invested heavily in R&D to create the custom hardware needed to run the game.
And finally, here is the game ...
I prefer Radikal Bikers :P
