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Title: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: DiskTwo on May 10, 2010, 01:05:17 pm

I have a friend who is looking to get a Jamma switcher, and attempting to pack as many of the Mortal Kombats, as he can fit into a single cabinet.

I am not very familiar with switchers, or with the control panel layouts of the various mortal Kombats.

I was wondering if anyone wouldn't mind giving some advice on this. Any disadvantages, problems, perks etc? and Which cabinet would be best to host them?

Title: Re: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: DiskTwo on May 10, 2010, 01:12:41 pm

Ok my first google searches failed miserably. However I stopped being stupid and remembered klov.com :notworthy: it looks like MK 1, 2, 3, U3, and 4 ALL use the exact same cabinet and control panel. this sounds a lot easier than I thought.

Title: Re: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: severdhed on May 10, 2010, 01:42:46 pm

not exactly, the first 2 MK games had 5 buttons per player, MK3 added a 6th RUN button....so don't forget to take that into consideration

Title: Re: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: Turf on May 10, 2010, 01:46:22 pm

Go over to retrowaretv.com.  Ito (the site's co-creator) did just this and made a video of it.  If you send him an email he'll help any way he can.  Ito's a good dude.

Title: Re: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: HaRuMaN on May 10, 2010, 01:56:30 pm

One of the members here did it, too.  

After a quick search:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=92493.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=92493.0)

Title: Re: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: DiskTwo on May 10, 2010, 02:07:30 pm

Awesome thanks. I sent my friend the video. Once I'm finished helping him, I plan to do one myself now.

Title: Re: Question - Multiple Mortal Kombats, One Kabinet.
Post by: Malenko on May 10, 2010, 07:11:04 pm

the only thing that pops out about the wiring of this is the resistors on the kick harnesses (and MK1 having a different harness then the others) and the -5V mod to the jamma switcher.  I was going to get a cheap PC and put it in my MKII machine and run all the MKs since there's like 20 including hacks and rom revisions. be sure to post something in the project section when you get started!