A mate asked if I could do CPS2 conversions and I’ve previously done them so I said I was happy to do it for him.
He wanted to convert his SF2 New Challengers board to something that he would play more – enter Progear. It also helps to convert as the original Progear with the simm module costs big dollars.
Upon inspecting, the B board is as expected, it was really clean (compared to the one in my previous post 
) and a Rev 3 which installing a jumper wire from the PAL chip to J17.
One of the things I noticed with this paritcular board was the roms that weren’t used weren’t socketed like every other CPS2 B board I’ve seen/worked on. Instead they were factory sealed. NOT GOING TO BE FUN!!
With this conversion, I only needed to desolder the sound data area 11 and 12 – thank goodness for that as they’re a PITA to desolder
Flux, solder, solder sucker, solder wick – rinse and repeat 84 times!
Once she was nice and cleaned, I installed sockets on them and burned all the necessary roms and installed them accordingly
Closer look at the PAL install to J17
Had a spare Japanese Progear label and also installed it for my mate
Everything working fine!
