As you note, this one is already dumped and emulated, you could revision check it if you want though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gc-d-uqYwA
In this case I believe the sub-board the glob is on just has the same pinout as a standard ROM type, so it got dumped that way. Both Sean Riddle and Team Europe can handle this kind of setup quite easily (the later JAKKs cases where the globs are directly on the PCB with only very, very fine traces between them and no TSOP pads are much trickier)
The 2003 version of Spongebob (and 2003 Namco unit) remain undumped, yes, it seems likely they use CPUs with the ROM onboard, in the same glob, at least based on Sean's analysis of them. (There aren't really enough lines going between the globs on the PCB for one to be acting as ROM)
|