identifying old unknown pcbs

[Blair Ally]

Hey Guys,

I have a huge collection of old arcade PCBs that we're sorting through at our shop. I'm wondering what are your favorite resources for identifying rare and unknown PCBs. The more common and collectible ones seem to be easier to identify but, I have dozens of non-JAMMA and hard to ID boards and am looking for good, updated online resources.

Thanks in advance for any tips,
Daniel
blairally.vintage.gaming at Gee-Male

[Joe Magiera]

Post by Blair Ally
I have a huge collection of old arcade PCBs that we're sorting through at our shop. I'm wondering what are your favorite resources for identifying rare and unknown PCBs. The more common and collectible ones seem to be easier to identify but, I have dozens of non-JAMMA and hard to ID boards and am looking for good, updated online resources.

There is a very good, accurate and relatively easy way to do this, but you’d need to have an EPROM reader. If you do, you can read a ROM and there are several ways to do a search on the ROM image to determine what game it is. I won’t go into explaining it here, but if you have an EPROM reader, let me know and I’d be glad to go through it with you. email me for details (***@ameritech.net).

If you don’t have an EPROM reader, then you are in for a most tedious task! There are a few decent web sites out there to help you. They are all set up a bit different, so you might want to take a look at all of them to see which works best for you…

http://arcadecollecting.xmission.com/pcbpics/
https://www.crazykong.com/pcbs/
http://www.arcaderestoration.com/Content/PCB+Identification.aspx
http://www.arcaderestoration.com/FindPcbs.aspx
http://www.wolfgangrobel.de/arcadetalk/pcbgalerie.htm

Joe (joemagiera at Ameritech dot net)
***@ameritech.net

[John Robertson]

Post by Joe Magiera

Post by Blair Ally
I have a huge collection of old arcade PCBs that we're sorting through at our shop. I'm wondering what are your favorite resources for identifying rare and unknown PCBs. The more common and collectible ones seem to be easier to identify but, I have dozens of non-JAMMA and hard to ID boards and am looking for good, updated online resources.

If you don’t have an EPROM reader, then you are in for a most tedious task! There are a few decent web sites out there to help you. They are all set up a bit different, so you might want to take a look at all of them to see which works best for you…
http://arcadecollecting.xmission.com/pcbpics/
https://www.crazykong.com/pcbs/
http://www.arcaderestoration.com/Content/PCB+Identification.aspx
http://www.arcaderestoration.com/FindPcbs.aspx
http://www.wolfgangrobel.de/arcadetalk/pcbgalerie.htm
Joe (joemagiera at Ameritech dot net)

What Joe is speaking of is ROMIDENT - where you read your EPROM and
compare it to the library. Look it up!

John :-#)#