Quoted from cutlerkeith:However, while inspecting the game I also noticed that this sort of daughter board was wired into the reset circuitry. What is it? What were they trying to achieve? Anyone have a clue?
It's just a simple 555 timer circuit to substitute for the 3 pin PST518B. Maybe they didn't have the part or wanted to alter the watchdog timing.
https://wiki.neogeodev.org/images/1/1e/PST518B.pdf