17 in 1 pcb

[Loris Biaggi]

Anyone tried this?

[matrigs]

WAT.

what shenanigans are these ? also why would someone add dangun feveron and fever sos when it's the same game. then it's basically 16 in 1 and you have one game less...

mind = blown

[emphatic]

I wonder how well the games are running off it? It would be cool to know more, would love to put Do-Donpachi Arrange on it and hide all of the other games if it can run Do-Donpachi well enough.

[monouchi]

Stay away,
I had one of those.
First I had hell to get it to sync. (I got the RGB ver)
Then the games had a lot of frameskip. really poor emulation.

I tried to get the software which you can change games with but no, "Then I as a customer could destroy the software"....

[shmuppyLove]

Shenanigans indeed.

I love the ".zip" after the game names lololol

Most likely running some kind of embedded linux and MAME, though Guwange with the .fba afterwards? Strange.

Very random assortment of games as well?

[Bananamatic]

it has Dimahoo

stay the fuck away

[Ed Oscuro]

Miss Bingo might be a hidden gem in there!

Can't see the CPU they are using...grr...doesn't look like it's running too high a speed though. Is this really emulating the games?

[CMPXCHG8B]

Can't see the CPU they are using...grr...doesn't look like it's running too high a speed though. Is this really emulating the games?

Only MAME is (AFAIK) known to use compressed archives with the zip or 7z extension for ROM sets.

Most likely running some kind of embedded linux and MAME, though Guwange with the .fba afterwards? Strange.

FBA is strange, that's from Final Burn Alpha, which is traditionally run on consoles (Xbox, 360, PS3). It is a separate project from MAME, but shares a lot of the CPU core code (as most of those emulators are fairly portable).

Given the size and package of the biggest chip on the PCB, I'd say that's either an x86 or ARM SOC. In either case, they're likely booting into a Linux kernel and running something like DirectFB to push pixels to screen. The whole shebang probably runs off an initial ram disk (initrd) loaded into RAM from flash by whatever firmware the board is using.

I'm assuming that the processor is sub-400mhz, probably less (might even be around 233mhz). That would explain why there's no heatsink and why performance seems to suck as Monouchi suggests.

-CMPX

[Ex-Cyber]

I like how the JAMMA edge key looks to have been removed in a hurry with a dull knife.

FBA is strange, that's from Final Burn Alpha, which is traditionally run on consoles (Xbox, 360, PS3).

It's also been ported to a few of the homebrew-friendly handhelds. It wouldn't surprise me if this board is using the exact same SOC as one of them.

[sven666]

"16 shots and miss bingo"
"shoot the core - miss bingo midnight stories"
"miss bingo - alot of bang for your buck"

im sure its a fantastic bingo simulator tho

[BPzeBanshee]

I guess this one's different from the multigame bootlegs that have ones like Galaga 2, Xevious and 1943 in them eh?

The one I played ran fine, but this one clearly has a few newer games than those and I can see it being a complete waste of time.

[spadgy]

Moved to Hardware. As you were!

[IseeThings]

They're probably the same basic tech as the Happy Fish / Blue Elf boards

underpowered ARM cpu, embedded version of linux, SDLMame Compile + FBA Compile.

if so they're hilariously bad, most games running half framerate (anything which flickers is invisible!) games forced to 60hz refresh instead of the correct refresh rates, horrible glitches, horrible load times, slow buggy menu systems... just imagine running a current version of MAME on a 300mhz processor, with various lame hacks applied in a futile attempt to get some performance out of it.

just *AVOID*