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> > There were a LOT of these "SNES game on arcade boards" around back when I was in
> high
> > school, in Mexico. I remember seeing a Toy Story one and a Mortal Kombat 3 one. I
> > really wish those were still around, they're probably the same as the SNES game
> > but... it's still curious as hell.
>
> That was pretty common a lot back then. Many of us knew about Super Mario Bros. not
> because a friend next door had a NES at home, but because there was a NES adapted
> Arcade machine near our schools, convenience stores and tortilla shops... along with
> Atari 2600 adapted Arcade machines. For us Cabal were always a joystick game and we
> didn't know there was a real Arcade version of Kung-Fu Master. We only knew about the
> NES version played at Arcade places. The tradition continued with X-BOX first
> generation and Xbox 360 adapted Arcade machines with lots of console game emulators
> when they aren't plain PCs, but only before places renting gaming computers and home
> consoles became popular.
>
> Legend in photo: "Did you know... in the nineties this was: 'going (buying) for
> tortillas'?".

The SNES single board ones tend to be actually modified to accept credits ingame etc. tho rather than just having an external credit circuit or bolted on timer like a lot of the modified things you saw. (system11's current blog update details a SNES one that was just a multigame with timer and some automatic inputs for recognized games)

Also a lot of these chinese ones have other features hacked in, like the stupid 'press start to change character' function that seems to have been in the majority of Chinese SF2 hacks too etc. (to me that's a complete anti-feature, but the community there seem to go mad for it)