> Thank you for the answer.
>
> > This is the hardware country setting I think now your board is hardware
> setting
> > for USA (i need to check).
> > just like the saturn bios can be JP/USA/EURO and the board can be set to
> > different region. some game will check bios region, other (sfish2 on stv side)
> > will check board region.
>
> > That board came from a photo machine, the input is from a camera and the
> output
> > goes to a priner, like snk neoprint that use a mod neogeo board.
>
> Interesting... the bios seems to be a japan bios because it says at boot time it
> is intended to be used in japan only.
> So I deduce the jumpers has been changed to USA region in order to make such a
> game which checks the board region to works, while keeping the japan bios.
> If I understand correctly, I may then reset the jumpers to the configuration
> described by the service manual. May I?
> Can you please tell me the other jumpers setting meanings?

I know only setting for japan and export.
You can set the jumper as described by the service manual with no problem.
But You can't remove the second board it has something like a bus terminator on it; standard stv board have a dummy connector pluggend in.

> Furthermore, I understand sfish and sfish2 are cd-rom based games, so they
> require a cd-rom controller board.
> If this video board has been intended to be used with one of those two games,
> there is a thing it is not clear to me:
> According to the layout of this video board and according to the cd-rom
> controller picture I could see from system16.com, these two boards are not
> supposed to be used together in a tower configuration because they does not
> provide any CN type connectors on the component side, so they are mutual
> exclusive.

Yes you can have cdrom inerface OR video in/out inerface not both at the same time.

> This makes me puzzled on the kind of game this board has been designed for.

It's designed for game like this:
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