Sky Shark PCB: bootleg or not

antron · Post by **antron** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:12 pm

one in question:

crazy kong's image:

notice on the one in question the missing key slot, the romstar sticker, and taito lable. some chips have been replaced with daughter boards.

most chips are the same, and where different sized chips where used the pcb is painted for chip placements identical to the real one. that is, it looks like they used the layout mask for the original, but ran different traces and drilled different holes. (see the L-01 and L-02 chips)

is this a re-release?

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:27 pm

my PCB is exatly like the second one (krazy Kong).From my experience with arcade PCB The light green color of the first PCB screams "Bootleg" to me.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:16 am

Here's a picture of my bootleg:
http://www.pici.se/192553/

antron · Post by **antron** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:36 am

emphatic wrote:Here's a picture of my bootleg:
http://www.pici.se/192553/

looks a lot like the one in question.
how do you know it is a bootleg?

robivy64 · Post by **robivy64** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:15 am

The first one is definitely a bootleg. Taito boards of that era always had the Taito logo silk screened on the board. Also, Taito boards had notched JAMMA connectors.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:13 am

robivy64 wrote:The first one is definitely a bootleg. Taito boards of that era always had the Taito logo silk screened on the board. Also, Taito boards had notched JAMMA connectors.

This