> If you think that's packing it in tight, try finding a PCB picture of Excellent > System's Witch, whose ES-9104 hardware appears to be vaguely descended from the > ES8611 hardware of this game. For Witch, Excellent replaced most of the fat SRAMs > with skinny-DIP ones, replaced the two 8255s with one equivalent M5M82C255ASP, > upgraded the PSGs to YM2203s and supplemented them with ADPCM. The resulting > complexity is vaguely intimidating.
Yep, definitely more tightly packed. Flyer covers part of the board, but I assume from what you say that is just as populated as the rest.
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