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Mario Bros in Red !
Level42:
So.........was this first a Radarscope that got converted to a Donkey Kong and then to a Mario Bros.........or......was this a Radarscope that was directly converted to a Mario Bros..... ?
Anyway it looks VERY nice and it's MINE :D !!!
YES !
Just one slight problem........no PCB :'(
Anyone got a Mario Bros PCB for sale ? :D
EDIT: TO DO LIST:
- get a capkit and a width-kit for the Sanyo 20C
- install capkits
- mount the new audio amplifier properly
- repair side damage (need PAINT for that, trying to get some from Darthnuno :)
- repair kickplate damage, only then can I reinstallg the coindoor
- fix the coinmech frontplate or get a new frontplate or entire mech.
- get CPO overlay (ordered with Mamemarquees since there are no silkscreened repro's of the narrow-body MB CPO.)
- get CP carriagebolts THANKS LUIGI !!!
- get coinmech bolts
- get 2 orange NINTENDO push buttons
- get a 4-way restrictor for one joystick
- dissassemble and check/fix joysticks
- try to do a leaf switch hack for the buttons. (Yes I AM willing to sacrifice originality for this !)
- polish the bezel more
- paint the foot black
Damn, that's a lot more than I thought !
After the restore is complete I will be searching for a way to get the following running:
- MB PCB (already in there 100% OK.
- Popeye bootleg PCB. Working and on it's way from Germany. Hope I can select video inversion on that one.
- DKjr bootleg PCB. Working already here. Needs video inversion. Sound was OK on JAMMA, seems to be a problem with it on the Nintendo cab (weird)
- DK (original) -4 board (unknown if it works)
I even got an original DKjr board here now, but it's completely dead. This one has the audio amp on board ! (Which is pretty rare AFAIK).
Anyway, for all this I need Mark Spaeth's Nintendo switchers which are not available yet....
leapinlew:
I've seen the orange version in the wild. I think they made some like that and some powder blue. It looks like the wide body version to me. I think Donkey Kong was narrow nintendo cabinet.
Congrats! It's an awesome game.
Kevin Mullins:
That's an original Radarscope cab......there was another game that used that cab as well, but can't think of it off the top of my head.
Note how many slots are on the speaker grill and that it has only one coin slot, defineately an early Nintendo cab from when they went to that cab design.
Are there any metal tags on the back of the machine? (top area)
Level42:
Thanks leapinlew.....an extremely rare find here !
Check out KLOV's info about Mario Bros:
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The game was originally released in the dedicated wide-body cabinet seen above. Many later games were built as conversions, often using other Nintendo cabinets like the orange Donkey Kong Junior cabinet shown on the right.
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The conversion kit came with the control panel assembly, front plexiglass, marquee, sideart, hardware to re-orient the monitor, the PCB and the wiring harnesses. It was designed to quickly convert Donkey Kong and similar Nintendo series cabinets.
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This is what the wide-body looks like:
You can see the following differences: The speaker is in the center pn the wide body, and the marquee is different. The conversion-kit has a text balloon on the left saying: 2-player feature !
KLOV also says that the early Donkey Kongs were red, instead of the famous blue because of the Radar Scope conversion....
Oooooooo wellll I'll have to wait to wednesday when I'm going to pick it up :D
Level42:
--- Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 05, 2007, 10:28:38 am ---That's an original Radarscope cab......there was another game that used that cab as well, but can't think of it off the top of my head.
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Don't you mean that the not-selling Radar Scopes were converted to DK ? I thought Radar Scope was Ninteno's first arcade game ever ?
Note how many slots are on the speaker grill and that it has only one coin slot, defineately an early Nintendo cab from when they went to that cab design.
[/quote] Well remember I'm in Europe so it could be because of this that it only has one coin mech. F.I. the Galaxian I've got also only has one coin-entry/mech, while every other Galaxian I've seen (on the internet) so far has two...
--- Quote from: Kevin Mullins on February 05, 2007, 10:28:38 am ---Are there any metal tags on the back of the machine? (top area)
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Can't answer that until wednesday I'm afraid.....will let you know !
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