Is it possible to "Phoenix" an already dead CPS2 board?

[SpiralSage]

Lets say I had a Progear board that was dead; would I still be able to phoenix it or would it be too late?

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

That was the whole point of Phoenixing, to bring them back from the dead. Converting live to zombie does nothing but hurt the value to collectors unless you convert a game to a different game much more in demand. But in the case of Progear, it's the most in demand CPS2 game. Maybe Hyper Street Fighter 2 is about even.

The answer is yes if it's the battery that suicided being the reason it died and not something else on the boards going bad.