[Jun/13/97]

                        TURPIN - SEGA
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These roms came from an original Konami turpin board. As you may notice
when you run the game, it comes up copyright "SEGA". This is not the
first time there have been links between the two companies. My friend
has a frogger board ( original Konami PCB ) that comes up '(C) Konami' -
where we are normally used to seeing 'Sega'.

Also, if you check the graphic set with turpin, you will also see Konami
mentioned.
If anyone has any information on the links between the two companies,
I would be interested to know ....

This is a great little game. You have to pick up the baby turpins spread
around the maze whilst avoiding various baddies. On my board, the sound is
corrupt. Comparing the sound roms with that of 'turtles' - the american
licensed version - one rom is the same and the other different. Within
this set, I have copied the appropriate 'turtles' rom to the bad 'turpin'
rom and the sound now seems fine. The bad rom is included for interests sake.

Interestingly, the colours are PERFECT ( as compared to the arcade ) with a
popular and rather excellent emulator out there whereas the American 'turtles'
version looks like it may have the wrong colours.

Note that doing a byte compare of the turtles roms vs turpin roms revealed a
surprising number of differences.

The layout of the roms on the two boards are as follows:

Top board ( sound roms ):

     D1
     D2

Lower board:

     M1
     M2
     M3         C1
     M4         C2
     M5

All roms are 2732 apart from c1 / c2 which are 2716's.

These roms should be used only if you have the original board - okay ?

This set contains M1, M2 etc which are the letters written on the eprom.



[Dec/31/96]

ROMs for Konami's Turtles (c) 1981

These ROMs were pulled off of an Amidar style PCB (I wish they would have
used sockets on the ROMs and not just the processors & 8910s)

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[Jul/07/2005]

Tartaruga  
  
ROMs:
7x TMS2532 (t1-t2-t3-t4-t5-5tur-8tur)
2x AM2716 (4f-5f)  

NOTE:
Blister labeled "tartaruga su scramble" - "turtle on scramble"
It's a clone of "Turtles"  
 
Dumped 07/07/2005 

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