Hm, for anyone who’s familiar with capcom “official” conversions of cps2 boards. have they ever flashed a rom on the wrong region case?
I just received an xmen vs sf (at a steal, so I don’t really mind if it isn’t original, I was planning to let it suicide and try flashing differing roms on it)
Here’s the thing. The case is japanese (green board) the B board it came with is yellow (rental) (not that that means anything) When I boot up the game it’s the hispanic rom and the test menu is a bit glitchy (directional controls won’t work unless I hit the test menu button AGAIN). The game sticker is clearly stuck over another label.
I opened it up and the original battery is infact, intact and my multimeter reads the voltage at 3.6v.
I just got a bootleg right? But it’s odd, because it’s one of the cheapest games, there aren’t many games worth less than xmenvssf and why boot into that? why not a progear or HSF? (or even ST now that there’s a rom that doesn’t need a daughter board)
I’ve heard from many arcade collectors that Hispanic Capcom distros did crazy mix match stuff with their hardware. The fact that it’s still running on a battery tells you that it’s not a bootleg, it’s an “offical conversion” as you say. Just a wonky one. Is this one of those off of ebay? I see a seller on there with a few other Hispanic Rental boards. I was half tempted on a couple of the least beat up ones, but not at those prices.
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It was listed as a japanese board =/ I got it along with the A board for $70 + shipping. I really have no use for so many A boards. I have about 3 or 4 now. how much are you buying them for to make your UD-CPS2s?
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/141490931486?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649
That’s the listing I purchased the board from.
also I got a bit of help with this on facebook too. I’ll quote it below for people who might run into this in the future
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