MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Versions?

> Horseshit on the last chance/gone forever. We have 2 full units for sale found by 1
> person in little time. Does that sound like it's about to disappear forever?
>
> It's a dart board with a screen. It's not even a videogame and there is no dart board
> to hook into mame. If anyone wants to pay $1,000 for it (Goldarts) you can - paypal
> me the money with a note saying it's for Goldarts and I'll forward the money on to
> buy them. I'm not blocking the purchase, I simply think everything has a price, this
> one is way too high for the benefits to mame, and it's so absurd that it isn't worth
> me entering into a fundraiser that I think will surely fail.

Well the other thing with these is that they need doing while there is still a setup to do them, and while the techniques are still fresh enough in the minds of those doing them. Morten is less likely to be involved in the future too (I'm not going into reasons, he just is) and the work done for the previous ones was teamwork. Just sourcing the parts for the dumping rig will be difficult if it gets to the stage of needing to build a new one (was difficult enough buying the ones they have)

$1000 is a bit steep if that's just for one yes, I think I was told they were around 300 euros. That might be the price they are tho, as they're not likely to really be sold as loose PCBs. There might also be an MCU of some kind in the board that needs decapping. In reality the board probably just sends an input for each segment, so could be simulated with the artwork system.

Just because a few are showing up at once tho doesn't mean much. Back in the day 2 'Play 2000' (the video poker with Dallas) showed up, although one had a dead dallas, and the other had corrupt program roms. We've not seen a single one of those since, and it's been almost 10 years.

Keep in mind that with SFEX clones the regions are literally a 1 byte change tho, we've never seen an exception to that, so unless the clones in question are actually interesting / significant for other reasons Moogly is correct, those aren't worth donations, let alone donations to the tune of hundreds. Even if they are unique revisions, hundreds is somebody overcharging, those things typically go for almost nothing.