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Be cool... that dude is a NARC
#389118 - 12/23/20 05:33 AM
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So The Dumping Union recently had the opportunity to acquire 2 separate Williams' Narc boards from the same seller. Both turned out to be formerly undumped versions. The two new versions are v4.00 and an early v1.80! The new v1.80 set has all new ROMs for both the program and graphics ROMs and plays a little different then the later sets.
Phil Bennett did a nice quick comparison / write up about the noticed differences here: https://twitter.com/PhilBennett3D/status/1341253902935584768
Definitely worth a the read.
Special thanks goes out to the DU members who pointed these boards out as well as CoolMod and Phil Bennett who had a major helping hand in acquiring these new sets!
Edited by BrianT (12/23/20 05:37 AM)
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Re: Be cool... that dude is a NARC
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#389122 - 12/23/20 09:29 AM
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>So The Dumping Union recently had the opportunity to acquire 2 separate Williams' Narc
>boards from the same seller. Both turned out to be formerly undumped versions. The two new
>versions are v4.00 and an early v1.80! The new v1.80 set has all new ROMs for both the
>program and graphics ROMs and plays a little different then the later sets.
>Phil Bennett did a nice quick comparison / write up about the noticed
>differences....definitely worth the read.
As noted, the tweets with comparison visual differences being displayed side-by-side makes it worth viewing and makes one wonder what were the reasons of why making specific changes besides the usual bug fixes issues.
>Special thanks goes out to the DU members who pointed these boards out as well as CoolMod
>and Phil Bennett who had a major helping hand in acquiring these new sets!
Agreed with appreciation of ongoing work with various DU members spotting items maybe others might have overlooked over the years. I'd like to believe there might be future success with someone from DU tracking down elusive Japanese region of Crazy Climber since it has somewhat different music audio sequence from what I had read in the past.
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Re: Be cool... that dude is a NARC
[Re: BrianT]
#389125 - 12/23/20 12:07 PM
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Awesome. I'm still hoping to one day to play that prototype with the helicopter level.
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Re: Be cool... that dude is a NARC
[Re: BrianT]
#389141 - 12/23/20 08:15 PM
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Cool ! I still get all excited when I see new arcade stuff!!
Thanks to all involved!!
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Re: Be cool... that dude is a NARC
[Re: BrianT]
#389158 - 12/24/20 04:18 AM
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Re: Be cool... that dude is a NARC
[Re: R. Belmont]
#389200 - 12/25/20 05:12 PM
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> The location test version is really interesting.
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> Fans of NARC and related games should check out the new Midway documentary "Insert
> Coin": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNKUArd7Q4
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> Aaron Giles is in the credits (as a Kickstarter backer).
Thank you so much for mentioning this, I had no idea it existed. I just bought and watched on Vimeo, and really liked it.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/insertcoin
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