given that the pang set had apparently pretty much the entire code in a battery backed RAM chip I guess there isn't much hope for it.... we'd have to find a non-dead copy of the exact same bootleg.
why bootleggers wanted to go to such extremes for such a widely bootlegged game I really don't know, that kind of suicide battery makes your bootleg far less desirable than the others, and it's not like it was a very difficult game to bootleg in the first place. actually makes me wonder if it was ever really a pang bootleg, or some gambling game using pang data roms + gfx that they actually wanted to protect or something. (I'm told that such suicide methods were quite often used on gambling games)
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