MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: DU: A royal pain in my ascot

> > I've honestly no idea what constitutes a complete set for a lot of these tho.. it
> > seems each game was a unique setup, so unless somebody has one working to know
> > exactly what boards were where then it's still going to be a bit of a nightmare.
> >
> > still, the more dumps the better.
>
> What I know about these satellite terminal games in general:
>
> Networking is the same on their respective hardware. Royal Ascot links the same way
> as with other Sega X Board games like Super Monaco GP albeit the use of ten boards.
> The "server" board and roms has its link id set to master while any other boards,
> client or live, would be set to "slave". I'm pretty sure the program roms would
> determine their network id and function but idk if it's the case for all games.
>
> I can't tell how Royal Ascot will turn out. I like seeing network emulation done but
> satellite terminal games are a bit overkill to me.

well the ones we do have board lists for have a central board, the board for the main screen, a board for each of the terminals, a board for the mechanical parts etc.

some of them will probably never be emulated; that Sega 'Pontoon' thing we have a dump of is likely a screen for a setup that likewise requires more boards, and that scarily used one of the encrypted FD1094 CPUs

due to their size, and long term cost of maintaining these, vs. the fact that they're unlikely to be profitable anymore (maybe not even legal) puts them highly at risk, so it would be nice to see complete setups emulated one day.

Taito made some too..