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Title: Nintendo Arcade game swapping question
Post by: Radford119 on September 13, 2010, 09:22:32 pm

I am picking up a Nintendo VS. Top Gun game tomorrow and was wondering if it is possible to swap board sets from a Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr or Popeye directly into the VS cab? I know the monitor is horizontal in the Top Gun game, but that aside I was just wondering what the options are for a different game. Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: Nintendo Arcade game swapping question
Post by: knohbody on September 16, 2010, 09:48:45 pm

Not a straight swap. The pinouts are different in significant ways.

Here's the pinouts, via mikesarcade.com:
Nintendo VS cab:
http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=pinout&page=VS_Unisystem.html (http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=pinout&page=VS_Unisystem.html)
Donkey Kong Jr. (Nintendo Classic)
http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=pinout&page=Nintendo_Classic.html (http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=pinout&page=Nintendo_Classic.html)

The VS cab has a two edge connectors. One of them is a 44 pin, like the Donkey Kong one, but after pin 5 and pin E, they're completely different.
You'd definitely have to do some rewiring of the edge connector for pretty much anything you put in there that's not a Nintendo VS.

Title: Re: Nintendo Arcade game swapping question
Post by: Radford119 on September 18, 2010, 01:13:14 am

Thanks knohbody for your help, I appreciate it.