multi game dedicated cab possible

[stan2323]

I was thinking this afternoon, dangerous I know, and I was wondering if anyone has ever added other original game boards to a dedicated cabinet.  What I mean is to put in set of shelf’s and put different original PCB boards on each shelve then wire it up so they can change between them with the flip of a switch or something.  I would think it would be possible to make or get a selector switch that would power one board at a time.  Get a switch with a common lead to one terminal and one contact at a time closed.  With the # of boards you intend to put in as the other connector.  Then you would need to wire the common lead to the power supply and the contacts to the power on the boards or the maybe even the on/off connects.  I have not looked in the back close enough to see if this is possible.  It would power one board at a time.

Then take a few old plugs that go into the PCBs and you could make a common terminal block for each wire that goes to the boards and you could wire up any # in theory. 

Turn the switch to the game they would want to play and turn it on. 

It would of course have to be the some kind of game for the control panel to be good for each game.  I mean games that use only Joy stick if that is what the control panel had or games that use track ball for one that had a control panel with only a trackball

By doing this you could have a muli game cabinet that is very much original and plays perfectly.

Would it even be possible?

This is just the musings of a board tinker.   

[vertygo]

Yup, there are actually multi-jamma adapters that you can daisy chain together. Then you select via some key combo and it basically loads the next game in a linear fashion.

[paigeoliver]

Lots and lots of people have rigged up machines to play multiple games. However, the more crazy you want to get with it the more likely you are to spend more money than a row of cabinets would cost, and the more likely you are to wire something poorly and toast everything. Multi-jamma kits exist, but last I heard they were very hard to actually get ahold of and they are fairly pricey.

Quick answer is that if you want a dedicated multi-cabinet than look really hard at six slot neo geo boardsets, jamma multiwilliams boards and Playchoice 10 machines, as those are your bests bets without getting into exotic wiring nightmares.

[MameMaster!]

http://www.arcadefever.net/MYPROJECT/MULTIJAMMA/MULTIJAMMA.html

this is just 1 example....the issue you'll have is one of power....and heat...but you can overcome both if this is something you really want to do.