Nintendo VS - can I adapt it to other game card interfaces (Universal, etc.)

[brunoman]

NOTE TO MODERATOR:  After re-reading the group description I don't think this is the appropriate place
for my question.  Alas, I can find no 'Delete Post' button......

Good day!  First post here, hopefully this is the correct forum for my question.  If it isn't I'm sure someone (or several)
will point it out!   

I'm a long-time player of arcade games (played one of the early Pong machines back in the day). I've often
thought that it would be cool to have my own machine so when I saw that someone down the street was
tossing out an olde arcade cabinet I grabbed it and installed it in my garage.  The front graphics indicate
that it is (or was) an Atari R.B.I Baseball game.  Further inspection reveals that :

1) The cabinet was made by Nintendo (model MGS-UP-US).
2) There are no game circuit cards inside; only the power supplies, CRT, the CRT control card and the wiring harnesses
    for the coin slots, the CRT control card and the game cards.
3) I looked on-line and determined that the wiring harness is of the type 'Nintendo VS'.

So, now to my question:

Is there any way to adapt non-Nintendo game cards (Mr. Do by Universal, any JAMMA, etc.) to the existing wiring
or do I just have to bite the bullet and replace everything?  I've looked on-line and have found lots of adapters
but so far nothing for the Ninendo VS series.  The big unknown, at least for me, it what to do about the video signals.
 If I understand the way arcade games work most of the other connections are just NO switches that need to
be routed to the appropriate pins on the game card.

Regarding the CRT - the operational status of the CRT unknown at the moment.  I'd rather not have to replace
it if possible (at least not right away).  Unfortunately without a game card I don't know of a good way to test it.

All of the above being said, just gutting the unit and installing a nice LED display and one of those multi-game
cards does have a certain appeal from a simplicity point of view.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?

Thanks!

[PL1]

NOTE TO MODERATOR:  After re-reading the group description I don't think this is the appropriate place
for my question.  Alas, I can find no 'Delete Post' button......

No worries -- moved and approved.   


Scott

[keilmillerjr]

You can save your Vs harness and use a jamma harness. Congrats on keeping the crt!