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HOOK arcade HELP!!! who doesnt love Robin Williams? ***brand new to these forums
Faxanadu Champ:
oh man- looked it up..i guess it is!
but Hook is a 4 player game anyway, so I assume there HAD to be official 4 player cabinets out there somewhere (still cant find any evidence of one though) :banghead:
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I have the idea to convert this cabinet to a 3 or 4 player.. would it be as simple as just MODing the overlay to house 3 joysticks and button configurations, then just wiring them to the board and switching the dip switches to 3/4 players?
the game is up to 4 players, so as long as I have the correct number of joysticks wired up to the board and the dips are set, thats all that I'd need to do, right??
SirPeale:
You wouldn't want four players on that cab - way too narrow. Heck, two is pushing it. It was a cabinet based on one person standing in front of it.
You could move the kit over to a four player cab. There are plenty of them around. You'd have to come up with new graphics, but the ones on that cab are pretty generic anyway.
Also: make sure that this board supports four players. I don't know if there are two and four player versions of the board.
opt2not:
--- Quote from: Faxanadu Champ on April 04, 2010, 02:22:20 am ---oh man- looked it up..i guess it is!
but Hook is a 4 player game anyway, so I assume there HAD to be official 4 player cabinets out there somewhere (still cant find any evidence of one though) :banghead:
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I think Hook was just an upgrade kit, so arcade ops would install them in any given cabinet they could. I highly doubt there is an "official" cabinet.
--- Quote from: Faxanadu Champ on April 04, 2010, 02:22:20 am ---------
I have the idea to convert this cabinet to a 3 or 4 player.. would it be as simple as just MODing the overlay to house 3 joysticks and button configurations, then just wiring them to the board and switching the dip switches to 3/4 players?
the game is up to 4 players, so as long as I have the correct number of joysticks wired up to the board and the dips are set, thats all that I'd need to do, right??
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I'm with SirPeale on this one, this cabinet is good for a single player layout only...you'd probably have to do a lot of work to get this to turn out the way you want, and even then it will probably not be too comfortable.
If i were you, I'd gut this cab and grab all the Hook parts, then trade this cabinet for a more suitable 4-player cabinet. I'm sure you'd be able to find someone looking for a Robotron cabinet to restore or turn into a multi-williams. My El Diablo Mechanico machine (in my sig) is an example of a decent 4-player machine. They're pretty generic, so you shouldn't have a hard time finding one.
Faxanadu Champ:
Thank you so much for all your help! :lol
Now my next question is: Could anyone help me with instructions on how to install a power supply??
Is there a site/list of kind of general steps on what to do to install?
The seller of the Hook cab told me that it is about 10 wires to hook it up- but I know NOTHING about any of this :dunno
is it a pretty simple process? (i hope ;D )
opt2not:
--- Quote from: Faxanadu Champ on April 07, 2010, 12:41:34 pm ---Thank you so much for all your help! :lol
Now my next question is: Could anyone help me with instructions on how to install a power supply??
Is there a site/list of kind of general steps on what to do to install?
The seller of the Hook cab told me that it is about 10 wires to hook it up- but I know NOTHING about any of this :dunno
is it a pretty simple process? (i hope ;D )
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Try here.
You can also try a search on the forums, google, etc...
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