MAME: Donated hardware for dumping

I got two PCB:s in the mail donated by Robert Quenet who is building emulator cabinets out of some old fruit machines.

Since I think the old fruit machines are worth preserving I dumped the roms and put up one page each to collect the information for later use.

The one at left was made 1993 by Fun Tech and based on a Z8400 processor and has 4 roms. While dumping one of the roms were sitting tight and the top broke off, either because the chip was old and had a crack or because I was a bit too eager. When I read out the content of the rom the reader told me a checksum that was different form what the label at the top said which worried me a bit, but soon later it has been verified that the rom was ok, only of the wrong size hence the checksum was wrong.

The one at the right was made around 1997/98 by Subsino and had only custom labels on the chips, however this brand is well known and there are drivers in MAME already which may fit the roms.

Just a day or so after I published the dumps I got the first results from Haze who had tinkered a bit with the Funtech roms and found that they fit well into one of two different drivers already in MAME too. He quickly produced the following screens from the roms:

 

Sooner or later these old fruit machine may be playable by people again without loosing loads of money and we all remember them from pubs and casinos end of the previous millennia!

Update: Early binary of the MAME emulation is here