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Getting 4 Player Games To Work With Single Coin Mech??

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leapinlew:


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--- Quote from: Crowquill on September 02, 2007, 03:55:22 pm ---The two-player version lets you pick your characters, but the 4-player is dependent on which coin slot you use. Even 4-player Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles is this way. It was a dedicated game so they didn't need to program in that flexibility.

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Nah the UK version (Teenage Muntant Hero Turtles) defently only had one coin slot. I think the best way is to connect my coin mech/credit board up to the other player start/credit buttons on my I-PAC as you guys suggested. Would it be possible to dasiy chain from P1 Start On the I-PAC to the other player start buttons, or would i have to run individual wires from each Player start input to my coin mech/credit board?

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Seems to me this might cause a problem. Some games may report a credit jam? I've had a problem with Cheyenne when I dropped quarters too fast. Other games may constantly flash "JOIN! PRESS START" for the other players. I don't know, doesn't seem that clean of a solution to me. perhaps a dedicated shift button and people can drop their own credits by holding the shift and selecting one of their buttons?

Malenko:

what if you set the start button to be the coin button and the start button, worst case scenario, you gotta hit start twice.

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: Malenko on September 03, 2007, 11:59:58 am ---what if you set the start button to be the coin button and the start button, worst case scenario, you gotta hit start twice.

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Then the game would register a credit and you would never be able to use the last credit.

lettuce:

Ok think ive worked it out, how about if in the 4 player games i want to work correctly, in this case TMNT, i go into the menu setting (tab) and change the player 2,3 and 4 start buttons to button '5' which is the credit input for player 1. This way when i insert a coin all player shall get a credit, will that work? I still cant work out why the UK version didnt work with just one coin mech, as the actual arcade game had only one coin slot

ahofle:

You mean just like Green Giant already suggested above?  ;D

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