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Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« on: January 15, 2005, 11:07:49 am »
I bought my first arcade game yesterday, Gauntlet legends, in great shape.  All the controls are responsive and the game plays nicely.  Some scraches on it due to it being in a regular arcade but not too bad.  Bought it for $600.


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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2005, 12:58:55 pm »
Congrats!  ;D
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2005, 01:10:19 pm »
Very nice.
What plans do you have for it?
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2005, 01:12:13 pm »
Good looking cab there! Gauntlet Legends is a great game in my book... a real modern day classic.  ;)

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2005, 01:48:09 pm »
I am thinking of hooking up a computer to it so I can play some other games on it without gutting it out.  Still leaving it in its original form.

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2005, 02:14:44 pm »
Very nice...
Order yourself the J-PAC & Arcade-VGA & you should be pretty much ready to go! That's exactly what I'm doing with a gutted Street Fighter II ce.  I gutted it to replace all of the wiring... It's been hacked up a few times & I wanted to start over with a clean slate. I'm planning on putting a Multi-Jamma board in it so I can play real Arcade boards in it as well (without getting into the cabinet too much ...)

Have you had a chance to look into everything you need/want to do with it?

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2005, 03:58:11 pm »
your going to have 1 problem with ghe cab if your gonna mame it, the joysticks are 49 way optical  ones so ull need a converter you can get help  from here (a felow forumite is doing the same thing to his gl cab!) http://www.dragonslair.be/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6 hope this helps you :D
other than that, the cabs are exellent!!

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2005, 04:06:13 pm »
Say, did you think about measuring the cab and sending it to jakobud, so he can post 'em on his site? That would be nice...  :)
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2005, 07:00:15 pm »
You paid $600 bucks for it, and you want to throw a TV in it?
And one that doesn't even have Component video, to boot?

Spend PART of the $168 bucks the TV costs, and pick up the ArcadeVGA.
That'll leave you some left over for the controls, PLUS it will let you put it all back in case you ever want to sell the cab.

I can't see spending that kind of money on a cab, and then spending MORE on top of that to make it work WORSE.


And those things had a MARQUEE on them.
I thought I went big, sizing mine at 10" High.

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2005, 08:54:40 pm »
You paid $600 bucks for it, and you want to throw a TV in it?
And one that doesn't even have Component video, to boot?

Spend PART of the $168 bucks the TV costs, and pick up the ArcadeVGA.
That'll leave you some left over for the controls, PLUS it will let you put it all back in case you ever want to sell the cab.

I can't see spending that kind of money on a cab, and then spending MORE on top of that to make it work WORSE.

good advice there arcadevga is a class product

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2005, 11:24:28 pm »
Arcade VGA it is :D

Any other things I should get?

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2005, 11:32:15 pm »
You'll want to look into the adapters mentioned above for the 49 way sticks, or replace the sticks with Happs, & you'll probably want a J-Pac to interface the controls with your PC. The easiest way by far... It will allow you to take advantage of the wiring already in the cabinet.

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2005, 02:59:37 am »
Isn't Gauntlet Legends a medium resolution (25Khz) game?  If so, I don't think the ArcadeVGA will work with it.  I may be wrong.  I'm sure if I am, someone will correct me.
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2005, 03:34:03 am »
Oops.

It is listed on KLOV as medium res.
Definitely something to check into before ordering.

I'd get hold of Andy at Ultimarc, and see what he recommends.

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2005, 04:31:54 am »
Isn't Gauntlet Legends a medium resolution (25Khz) game?
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2005, 01:05:55 pm »
It won't work... You need happs adapter...

And the happ adapter is here: http://www.happcontrols.com/monitors/96058300.htm...
Should work with low res and med res monitors...

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2005, 02:35:34 pm »
I was doing a little more research.

I think that Gauntlet Legends can be run with a Standard -or- Medium resolution monitor.

It's possible that the cabinet has a Standard res monitor in it. You should check.

And even if it is a Medium res monitor, they can often be switched to Standard res via a jumper on one of the monitor boards.
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2005, 10:55:55 am »


not a bad deal for $600 , thats one game i would love to get working on my cab but it's horrably emulatuted ( tried both DC and PSX vers , both are junk ) ... whatever you do , dont mess with the game it's self , you'll regret it if you ever do.

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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2005, 11:53:05 am »
hey nice cab, my first cab was a gauntlet dark legacy. mine was a conversion though and used a big 4 player Xmen cab running a standard monitor, which is fine for MAMEing. but yours is dedicated which would make me think that monitor is medium res and youre not going to be able to arcadeVGA that. also look at the bottom of your joysticks, do they hit little microswitches or are they 49 ways? if theyre 49 ways another bad thing for MAMEing.

basicly, that cab is not suited for MAME at all and youre better off buying an empty cabinet for 50$ and making that MAME then converting that nice machine you have. Thats what i ended up doing
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2005, 01:02:26 pm »
hey nice cab, my first cab was a gauntlet dark legacy. mine was a conversion though and used a big 4 player Xmen cab running a standard monitor, which is fine for MAMEing. but yours is dedicated which would make me think that monitor is medium res and youre not going to be able to arcadeVGA that. also look at the bottom of your joysticks, do they hit little microswitches or are they 49 ways? if theyre 49 ways another bad thing for MAMEing.

basicly, that cab is not suited for MAME at all and youre better off buying an empty cabinet for 50$ and making that MAME then converting that nice machine you have. Thats what i ended up doing
If it isn't a conversion, the screen is med res. The joystick should be optical... There is this other guy that converted this to a mame cab, and darkmavis linked to him...
There is an adapter made by happ that allows you to connect a med res (or low res) monitor to your PC...
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2005, 01:11:35 pm »
I did read the whole thread, I dont see what you dont like about my post?? I went through the same thing as this guy, at the time I assumed my monitor was medium res, so i was facing the same video problem also. All im saying is that this is the worst possible thing you can buy to MAME, 49ways + medium res, where if it was standard/8ways would be half the work.
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2005, 04:44:14 am »
I did read the whole thread, I dont see what you dont like about my post?? I went through the same thing as this guy, at the time I assumed my monitor was medium res, so i was facing the same video problem also. All im saying is that this is the worst possible thing you can buy to MAME, 49ways + medium res, where if it was standard/8ways would be half the work.

But it wouldn't look as good! ;)
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Re: Just bought my first arcade cabinet, Gauntlet Legends!
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2005, 10:34:17 am »
What I would say.

1) Dont do anything for 3 - 6 months.  Since it wont' be a straight swap back and forth... Play a great game for a while... 

2) Decide how much you like the game.  It might be a good party favorite... You might want to rig it to swap back/forth.

3) Consider spending the $220 for the happs card.  But make sure first (by getting the actual monitor part number inside) that it can't handle standard resolution.  Many can...  Easy enought thing to find out if you know exactly what it can handle if you know exactly what it is.... (but I don't think you will get any luck)... 

But knowing this will change how easy it is to jump back to the original.

Next..

Do you want to keep the original joysticks?  It will cost you a bit...  4 of Daves boards... Then each joystick will act as an alalog joystick.  GREAT for some games.  People give them good reviews for most 8way and 4way games... but I hear they suck for fighting games... I have Daves board but a sinister joystick with a spider... so its hard to compare them.  btw... each board also handles 14 inputs.  So you should have more then enought inputs for coins, starts, ect... And even adding a few replacement 8way joysticks in another control panel later.

If you DONT use them.  Build yourself another control panel and just unplug that one and set it aside.  So you can go back at any point.  This can actually make things a little easier (no interfaces to mess with).

Your probably be about done at this point.


but what did I start off saying.  Dont do anything for a month and play a great game...

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« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2005, 12:00:28 pm »
yeah i ended up playing my machine for a good couple months before i actually went and got my 2nd cabinet. i didnt want to MAME it its too nice
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