Are carts/motherboards region locked?
I have a bootleg Cyvern that I got in part of a trade, it started showing one of the roms was bad on start-up. So I had JP roms burned to replace them, but now it doesn't boot at all. What I didn't think of at the time is I don't even know what region the boot was. Maybe it needs US roms burned instead?
Kaneko Super Nova question
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Re: Kaneko Super Nova question
Yup. As per the Arcade Otaku wiki:
Regions are not cross compatible and have their own BIOS. The region Regions by color coded cart:
White = Japan
Light Blue = Europe
Dark Blue = USA
Green = Asia
Red = Korean
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Re: Kaneko Super Nova question
Well that's useful to an extent, but how do I tell what region the motherboard is?Hokuto wrote:Yup. As per the Arcade Otaku wiki:
Regions are not cross compatible and have their own BIOS. The region Regions by color coded cart:
White = Japan
Light Blue = Europe
Dark Blue = USA
Green = Asia
Red = Korean
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Re: Kaneko Super Nova question
There is a socketed eprom on the motherboard which stores the bios/region. From what I remember, the label tells you which region and revision you have (iirc it goes something like SKNSXX, where the first X is the region and the second is the revision).
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Re: Kaneko Super Nova question
SNKSJ1. So I'm assuming it's JP. Which means that my conversion is just toast at this point I guess.Hokuto wrote:There is a socketed eprom on the motherboard which stores the bios/region. From what I remember, the label tells you which region and revision you have (iirc it goes something like SKNSXX, where the first X is the region and the second is the revision).
If putting the legit roms in the two eprom sockets on the cart doesn't do it, then the code on those must be altered for the conversion... And I sure don't have those...
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Re: Kaneko Super Nova question
If you look at the solder part of the board (the bottom) it should have a silkscreen in one of the corners saying what region the board is. It's HUGE, you can't miss that
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Re: Kaneko Super Nova question
There is absolutely nothing silkscreened on the bottom of my motherboard. And I mean literally nothing, not just no region marking.RMRM wrote:If you look at the solder part of the board (the bottom) it should have a silkscreen in one of the corners saying what region the board is. It's HUGE, you can't miss that