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| Loderunner:
I'm not sure if this is the right kind of forum for this post. If not, can someone re-direct. Anyway, I recently bought an old VS. Super Mario Bros. machine. The game itself is inside a cabinet originally built for VS. Hogan's Alley. Does anyone know what games I use with it with little modification (i.e. adding light guns, etc.)? If you could either post the list or suggestions or E-Mail them, that'd be great. Once again, if I'm at the completely wrong forum/site, could someone tell me a good website that deals with old arcade machines? Thanks. -Lode |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Loderunner on April 29, 2004, 06:06:10 am ---I'm not sure if this is the right kind of forum for this post. If not, can someone re-direct. Anyway, I recently bought an old VS. Super Mario Bros. machine. The game itself is inside a cabinet originally built for VS. Hogan's Alley. Does anyone know what games I use with it with little modification (i.e. adding light guns, etc.)? If you could either post the list or suggestions or E-Mail them, that'd be great. Once again, if I'm at the completely wrong forum/site, could someone tell me a good website that deals with old arcade machines? Thanks. -Lode --- End quote --- You're in the right forum - but the question isn't specific enough. First question, are you maming this machine, or using as is? If maming, you can do pretty much anything to the machine, but it will be a pretty extensive mod. As is, I think you can plug any Nintendo VS. system PCB in and play that game, and add any of the accessories (light guns, etc.) that THAT GAME used, but you would need a PCB for each game you wanted to play, have to unplug/replug boards to switch games, etc. I'm much more familiar with the MAME option, though. |
| Loderunner:
Hmmm.. ic ic. What would be nice is if I had the option to buy a "How to MAME it up" book and/or some sort of Nintendo technical book (E-Bay calls). Anyway, sorry I didn't specify. What I meant was as-is. And what I truly want to know, is if I bought a playchoice 10 cage and wires and figured some way to rig the cabling, is it possible for me to make a playchoice 10 game out of a VS. cabinet. Thanks. |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Loderunner on April 29, 2004, 07:28:59 am ---Hmmm.. ic ic. What would be nice is if I had the option to buy a "How to MAME it up" book and/or some sort of Nintendo technical book (E-Bay calls). Anyway, sorry I didn't specify. What I meant was as-is. And what I truly want to know, is if I bought a playchoice 10 cage and wires and figured some way to rig the cabling, is it possible for me to make a playchoice 10 game out of a VS. cabinet. Thanks. --- End quote --- Check back later this month when Project Arcade - The book hits the shelves (written by the owner of this site). In the mean time, AFAIK, this would be possible, although it's also possible the cage and cabling required would cost you more than a working Playchoice 10 cabinet :-(((. |
| paigeoliver:
Vs. is not the same wiring as Playchoice. Using Playchoice in that cabinet would require finding the rather uncommon single monitor playchoice hardware. Also, your cabinet was likely originally a Donkey Kong (or Popeye, or Radar Scope) of some sort, as dedicated Vs. machines only came as those double cabinets (either double uprights, or double cocktails). I would personally just stick with the Vs. stuff for your cabinet, it is plentiful and cheap. You can get the Vs. stuff as chipsets that plug into your main PCB, or (just as common) as entire PCBs that will plug into you wiring harness. If you planned on Maming that cabinet you would need to either replace the monitor, or come up with some solution to the problem that Nintendo cabinets use inverse monitors (any non-nintendo thing is going to look like a photo-negative on that monitor). |
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