Revolution X 3 Player in a Terminator 2?

[danielm7999]

Wondering if its possible to connect the REV X boards (3 player) to a T2 cabinet with only 2 guns? Im thinking it shouldn't be impossible... but I've done a ton of looking and found no real definitive answers. Wondering what it would take to make it work, if its possible. I found that someone posted these Rev X settings options somewhere in an unrelated post:

Dip Switch 1 (U105):1 = OFF
2 = ON
3-8 = OFFDip Switch 2 (U108):1-2 = OFF
3 = OFF/ON [No Bill Validator/Bill Validator]
4 = OFF/ON [1 Coin Counter/2 Coin Counters]
5 = OFF/ON [3 Players/2 Players]
6 = OFF/ON [Revolution X Cabinet/T2 Retrofit Cabinet]
7-8 = OFFThe following settings must be changed within the Service Mode;Game Difficulty: Medium

Does this mean its just a matter of changing these settings to get it to work?

Thanks!

[Malenko]

gun pin out is different (8pin vs 5 pin me thinks)

Rev X 3 player is the same as 2 player, its just a dipswitch setting.

[danielm7999]

Thanks for that info man! So do you know how I would go about getting those T2 guns hooked up correctly to the Rev X boards? That might be a stupid question

[Malenko]

either splice, or make your own adapter.  They use dot sell T2 to RevX conversion kits, but theres enough info to make your own

[danielm7999]

Cool, I can do that. Thanks for all your info man!

I've heard about the conversion kits but could never find any. I thought they were some fancy complicated setup... all the conversion kit consists of is an adapter for the guns and thats it? So if I splice or make an adapter for the gun pinouts and change the dipswitch settings to 2 player then completely Im good to go? I expected a lot more difficulty than that.

I dont have the manuals with me at the moment, so I cant check the power specs on the guns, but it seems like I read that the 2 games use different power for the guns. I need to remember to look into that as well..

[Malenko]

the first set of RevX 2 player cabs were factory T2 conversions.

[kb50]

I have the opposite question. I want to take a 2 board (Logic & Sound) Revolution X arcade game and install it into a 3 player cabinet. OR I want to take a 2 player cabinet wiring, install it into a 3 player cabinet, and pull the 3rd player gun interface plug, and wire it up for 3 player. The reason being that the 3 player cabinet Logic Board and monitor are both shot, has defective ? Vram failure, and no longer goes past the failure screen. He claimed it was a working game, but I have not yet ever been able to get it past the failure screen, even boosting up 5 volts to 5.25 volts, a new power supply and reseating all of the socketed chips.
If not the owner may just live with the 2 player game, which is probably in better physical condition and has a working monitor as well.
Then the 3 [;ayer game may end up getting junked and scrapped out for spare parts instead.
The owners 3 player game cabinet is in much worse condition than the 2 player, and thus will cost more to repair it back to good condition, than vs buying the 2 player one, which he can get locally.
He has sentimental attachment to his 3 player game, because he has owned it for nearly 20 years.
Myself I would just go for the 2 player game, and be done with it.
Besides that he also has a spare 27 inch monitor for the 2 player, where the 3 player one uses a 33 inch CRT monitor.
Funny how people develop a love for certain things. He owns a Skating Rink which he closed this summer, and wants to put these certain games into his home to create a sort of museum.

I downloaded for free online the 2 player manual, and he is also ordering the 3 player manual. The differences seem to be mainly the 2 player version has the separate sound card. That would simply mean to bring the boards over to the 3 player cabinet, and wiring changes are mostly data cable to the sound board, speaker cable to the speaker(s) and P2 cable to the 3rd gun, and change the dip switch to the 3 player setting.

To restore the 3 oplayer is that it needs first a working logic board and tested out to assure all controls etc are working. Then his Hantarex Polo 33 monitor board, blew the fuse. I did a recapping of it. However something changed, as it was only ticking before a sign of a bad P/S but after carefully recapping it now tried to come on, and blew the main fuse instead. Nothing ventured nothing gained there.

So I can get the monitor fixed, as there is a service on Ebay that will do that. But before even doing that, have to get to a working rest of game situation.