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Mame and Original In One??
terabit:
I just scored a mint condition Heavy Barrel cab. A friend told me that someone had put it on the side of the road. I figured I would pick the thing up up for spare parts and when I plugged the thing in it fired right up. It is in great shape. I am going to paint the coin doors, replace the side art (it is faded) and add wheels to the bottom. I want to keep it original, but I would like to able to play other rotary games like Ikari Warriors and Victory road. Is there any way to do this?
These photos are before I cleaned it up.
http://www.lhdesign.net/heavy_barrel2.jpg
http://www.lhdesign.net/heavy_barrel.jpg
later
Glenn
pointdablame:
You could do it with a multi-JAMMA board. Run the real Heavy Barrel PCB on one slot, and a PC through a JPAC for the other... although there might be some complications with the rotary sticks... not sure about that though since I have no experience with them.
Mark70:
--- Quote from: terabit on October 13, 2005, 12:21:24 am ---I just scored a mint condition Heavy Barrel cab. A friend told me that someone had put it on the side of the road. I figured I would pick the thing up up for spare parts and when I plugged the thing in it fired right up.
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...but of course you couldn't pick it up in your lamborgini, so you had to drive home to get the hummer, which your supermodel wife was driving, so while you waited for her you had a snack on the side your house since everything is made of chocolte and you don't mind waiting because you haven't used all of your six months of vacation this year....
Seriously though, nice score. Luck is running your way.
terabit:
--- Quote from: Mark70 on October 13, 2005, 12:19:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: terabit on October 13, 2005, 12:21:24 am ---I just scored a mint condition Heavy Barrel cab. A friend told me that someone had put it on the side of the road. I figured I would pick the thing up up for spare parts and when I plugged the thing in it fired right up.
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...but of course you couldn't pick it up in your lamborgini, so you had to drive home to get the hummer, which your supermodel wife was driving, so while you waited for her you had a snack on the side your house since everything is made of chocolte and you don't mind waiting because you haven't used all of your six months of vacation this year....
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You are very close, but I got rid of the supermodel and picked up the Playboy Pet of the Year, and it wasn't my Hummer, it was my Gold plated flying car.
Later
Glenn
RayB:
Someone needs to learn what "mint condition" means. Faded sideart is not "mint condition". But criticism asides... ;D
Nice find! I would buy the other JAMMA boards and use a multi-jamma adaptor. I think using a PC might really complicate things because of the way the rotaries work and that the PC uses a different power supply, etc, etc...
Actually, come to think of it, even sticking to jamma boards might be a problem. The JAMMA standard and harness does not support rotary joysticks. Chances are that those are hooked up to a seperate harness. Now, who's to say that that extra harness is even compatible with those other boards?
So not only do you need a way to switch between game boards, but you'd also need a way to switch the rotary harness to the different game boards. You might be able to do this with one of those old Printer (parallel port) switchboxes and hacked parallel cables. Sounds like alot of work though!
;D