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danp:


--- Quote from: MameMaster! on May 05, 2008, 03:07:46 pm ---see the tutorial on retroblast.com---

http://www.retroblast.com/Articles/RetroBlast-Article-Converting-to-Token-Operation.php

that's how I wired mine. Good luck...it's actually pretty easy.  :applaud:

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This is exactly what I needed!  Thank you very much for referring me to the site.  :applaud:

GAJoe:

If you don't have or want to get coin mechs, or you want to use any kind of coin/slug/token, you can add an extension to the coin chute that directs all coins across the microswitch lever.  I couldn't find the project where I'd seen this done, so no pictures to share, but  I believe the guy just bent some thin sheet metal into a kind of tube and glued it to the chute.  You could probably do it even easier and cheaper with some tin foil, carboard, or paper.

protokatie:


--- Quote ---If you don't have or want to get coin mechs, or you want to use any kind of coin/slug/token, you can add an extension to the coin chute that directs all coins across the microswitch lever.  I couldn't find the project where I'd seen this done, so no pictures to share, but  I believe the guy just bent some thin sheet metal into a kind of tube and glued it to the chute.  You could probably do it even easier and cheaper with some tin foil, carboard, or paper.
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Odd that you bring that up, that is exactly the thing I was going to do before thenasty offered the coin door/mech/etc thingy I bought off of him. I was planning on using cardpaper myself. It seemed the best suited for such a hack (also it is "free" since once you go through a lined paper pad you have the card paper backing).

As per the seperate coin inputs for player one and player two, there are a good number of 2 player games out there that do rely on which coin slot you activate. I will actually have to do a little modding of the coin system I got from thenasty as it is wired up for a game that didnt care which slot the coin went into and I intend on having it support 2 seperate coin inputs. (BTW, thenasty, any idea what game that system came out of? Just curious)

Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: GAJoe on May 06, 2008, 07:59:32 pm ---If you don't have or want to get coin mechs, or you want to use any kind of coin/slug/token, you can add an extension to the coin chute that directs all coins across the microswitch lever.  I couldn't find the project where I'd seen this done, so no pictures to share, but  I believe the guy just bent some thin sheet metal into a kind of tube and glued it to the chute.  You could probably do it even easier and cheaper with some tin foil, carboard, or paper.

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Yeah..... That was me..... but the tubes are made from cardboard. The only downside is that you get no coin reject and it'll take anything. At home that's not a problem. The reject pushes are also connected to the microswitch lever via a piece of coat hanger wire, so you can get a credit by pushing reject as well.

I've got a lot of mechs hanging about, but I'm just too lazy to be bothered with them.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

protokatie:


--- Quote ---I've got a lot of mechs hanging about, but I'm just too lazy to be bothered with them.
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Im much more of a newb than you! And Atleast I will be dealing with coin mechs!
* protokatie takes away your ticket to the next showing of Yahtzee-on-ice.

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