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Credit LED support finally possible
Turnarcades:
--- Quote from: Waynetho on July 28, 2009, 03:01:26 pm ---There is a restaraunt (Texidelphia) near where I work that actually has a restored SNK cabinet (lousy restore, bad paint, damaged wood, old "SNK" side art on both sides) with a MultiCade marquee and a vertical monitor. I think it's a 16-game machine.
I have a wild suspicion that it is a MAME hack.
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There was actually 1 small arcade in Ilfracombe, North Devon, UK that I once visited about 2 years ago that had what I suspect to be some kind of mechanical or software restrictor inside and was playing Sega Megadrive games. At first I suspected it was a re-housed Mega-Tech or Mega-Play system, but it was running games that did not appear on those arcade systems. Once your money ran out it simply froze the screen util you added more money, as though the hardware was somehow paused. I didn't get chance to assess it for long enough to see wat it really was, though I did notice it had a very suspect looking coin door/mechanism area. The arcade is now closed down though, so obviously it can't have been that profitable!
jtslade:
Thank you for the feedback guys.
Do you know what hardware I would need to wire up MV-LED credit leds and start trying to figure out how they are driven.
I may need to take a couple months off of work.
Waynetho:
--- Quote from: jtslade on August 01, 2009, 09:35:36 am ---Thank you for the feedback guys.
Do you know what hardware I would need to wire up MV-LED credit leds and start trying to figure out how they are driven.
I may need to take a couple months off of work.
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You need the pinouts for the MVS board where these plug in. If you know which pin does what, it is possible to deduce how to drive it through Mame. It may be necessary, however, to add additional hardware to make them compatible with the PC motherboard. That may be the hard part. We just won't know until we know how the display modules are interfaced.
Candiman:
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on July 28, 2009, 08:40:44 am ---
You may not think it but it is more common than you think. We alone have several requests a month for this type of machine from various sources including these: chip shops, pubs, clubs, casinos, a recording studio (?!),
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You would be surprised how much down time there are for musicians in the studio. While the singer is doing vocal over dubs the rest of the band is twiddling their thumbs. Rinse and repeat for each person.
ryantheleach:
This is boring due to the credits not continuing from one game to the next, and loss of credits in game switching, let him do it if he wants, i came up with a very similar idea but never looked into it for the various faults it had, I'd rather have credits not even partially carry over then only sometimes carry over in specific circumstances, it just makes it look buggy in front of friends!