Post by zerovision on Jun 17, 2022 19:05:30 GMT
During Toaplan's tumultuous Toaplan 2 hardware era (1991-1994), two of their arcade games went to waste. The first one is Dynamic Trial 7, which was a linkable multiplayer racing game; despite having all the advertising, it got a lukewarm reception at the location test and was shelved. The other is Genkai ChÅsen Distopia, a side-scrolling action game full of monsters; it was doomed by Toaplan's bankruptcy, and none of the splinter companies (Cave, Gazelle, Eighting, Takumi, etc.) picked it up.
While PCBs of both are known to exist, the two currently-known PCBs of either are in sticky situations. Finding an unreleased/prototype arcade PCB is harder than finding such a console or computer game, but from what I can tell, D-T 7's board number is TP-029 while Distopia's may be TP-028 in case you want to hunt these things yourself. If you are an active MAME contributor, I wish you the best of luck in hitting this jackpot.
While PCBs of both are known to exist, the two currently-known PCBs of either are in sticky situations. Finding an unreleased/prototype arcade PCB is harder than finding such a console or computer game, but from what I can tell, D-T 7's board number is TP-029 while Distopia's may be TP-028 in case you want to hunt these things yourself. If you are an active MAME contributor, I wish you the best of luck in hitting this jackpot.
