There are a few things I'm going after at the moment and I could use some help with them or else I might only be able to get 1 of the items. First is an 80's Taito game, it looks like an undumped region and it also has an MCU that is needed for decapping to perfect the emulation. Second is an undumped System 573 game, a mildly rare one that is not DDR based. Lastly is what appears to be an undumped version of VS. Super Mario Bros. but because some of the sets weren't labeled correctly when dumped years ago, all the early Nintendo revision purchases are a crapshoot, but I can go for it if some donations come in. There are other possibilities as well like an old Data East game that is needed for decapping, a Sega System 32 revision, plenty of other stuff actually, if the first 3 all work out and there's more money left over. I can mention the game names of the first 2 in private messages.
Thanks so far for donations and pledges from:
Paratech F. Jérôme Kevin Eshbach Tormod cacis N. Garnier Gerald (COY) john666 gatt9 Charles MacDonald Gnoppi
Edit: We won the Taito game for decapping and we won the VS. Super Mario Bros. set that should, if we are lucky, be the fabled undumped original 1985 version. Also some other bits and pieces that I'll announce when they arrive. We could still use lots of donations, there's no shortage of available undumped stuff at the moment.
Edit #2: Something really interesting showed up and judging from where the price already is, we won't have enough to win it. So we need more donations if anyone can send some. I can mention the game name in private messages. I realize everybody is probably already tapped out but I might as well try anyway. The auction ends soon.
Edit #3: We were outbid during the auction. I had a bid in last night and then woke up early this morning to see if there were any new donations so I could raise the bid again. There was one so I could have, but the seller ended the auction early as to not give us a chance to do it. We were bidding under a popular exporter ID so they obviously didn't like that very much. So the game will remain in Japan to bitrot in a collector's hands instead of being preserved.
Edit #4: We won the System 573 game.
Edit #5: We got a hard-to-come-by CPS1 board thanks to cacis.
Edit #6: We got an undumped rev of a Sega game, unless a past dumper labeled some roms incorrectly... We also got a weird old pcb, I'm not really sure the game genre but it's undumped.
Edit #7: We got some more hard to come by games, I can't really say any details about them yet other than we got some more stuff.
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