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Re: Are Arcade PCB's & Original Arcade Cabinets Numbered in Order?
12/05/11 09:48 AM
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> > > Interesting...yea, I've noticed that the arcade-museum (Klov) is a really good
> > forum
> > > and website.
> >
> > The forum is decent. The website still needs work. For information on emulated
> games,
> > go to MAWS instead
> >
> > - Stiletto
>
> yea I know. I've been using MAWS since I started playing MAME. MAWS is essential. The
> members of Arcade-Museum (KLOV) are arcade cabinet/pcb collectors, hobbyist, etc. and
> there are some interesting conversations on the forum.
Game ROMs don't generally have a serial number (some do, for example Namco System 12), and I don't think they would be burned onto each chip (or else MAME would have literally millions of ROM sets to find and dump!). A cabinet serial number wouldn't mean anything if the game was converted. For example, Radar Scope to Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong to Mario Bros, Mario Bros to a Nintendo VS. system. Same with PCBs - there are way too many Pac-Man conversions to write here.
Slot machines have cabinet serial numbers, but again, just about every machine will end up converted into a newer or more popular (or more profitable) game, for example, the Aristocrat MKV (series 1) cabinet has been known to have MK4 boards, MK5 boards and MK6 boards installed in them, and with any of these, all you have to do is swap EPROMs, artwork panels and button labels (if required) to install another game on the same hardware. Additionally, the MK4 board is also backwards compatible with older MK2.5 games.
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