Help needed to identify or find more info

[megasdkirby]

Many years ago, a local video rental store was going out of bussiness and I was able to score some free "dead" Genesis carts. One of them was a bootleg/pirated version of Double Dragon.

Whenever I tried to play the game on the Genesis, it would hang at the title screen, or just freeze at the intro of stage 1.

I always wanted to find a way to repair this game, or at least try to find a replacement copy...hell, or even play the ROM, as from what I can remember, it was different than the Accolade version.

Here are some screenshots of the PCB. Sorry for the dust...it's been stored for over a decade in a box.

https://app.box.com/s/3drqcpqohkj9824khd43ha5soqz13bpl

Any ideas?

[kai123]

Check for broken traces first. Clean around the chip pinouts and maybe trying retinning some of the solder pads on the chips. Anywhere the solder looks dull. That is what I would try.

[xelement5x]

Was Double-Dragon one of those unlicensed Genny titles that Accolade made early one before the TMSS? Have you tried it through a GameGenie before?

[bust3dstr8]

This is a unlisenced Master System game on a Genesis pcb. By the looks of all the Goldstar logic I would guess Korean.