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Title: Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 08:24:29 pm

Just a quick question about my Cab........I have a Leyland World Soccer Finals Video game. Everything works 100%. Its a 4 player with 2 buttons for each player.

Here is a pick of the cab and Control Panel.......Can the board in this game be swapped out with a GAUNTLET board with no problems? If so then I would like to make this a GAUNTLET game and convert another cab I have to a MAME cabinet :-)

Thanks

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 08:25:26 pm

Board

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 08:30:00 pm

Another

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Scott84 on September 17, 2003, 09:13:24 pm

I dont have an answer to your question but that is one clean looking arcade!

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 09:30:51 pm

LOL......Thanks.......I bought it on e-bay and the guy said the monitor did not work......When I got it home and broke the lock open I opened it up the PLUG was disconnected. LOL...To bad for him......It was MY GREAT $60 STEAL !!!!

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: crsdawg on September 17, 2003, 10:07:49 pm

you could convert it to gauntlet, but i believe it'll be a little harder than just plugging up a gauntlet board. that looks like a proprietary harness, and i know guantlet also has a special harness.

you'll have to make a harness for the atari board. you could probably just use the existing harness and put in a edge connector that fits the gauntlet pcb.

from what i understand, it's possible to run gauntlet off a switching psu(which is what's in there), this  helps. finding a working atari psu might be a bit difficult and expensive.

you might also be able to make some sort of gauntlet to jamma adaptor, and then jammatize the cabinet. then you could swap out jamma boards in there.

do a search on google groups. i'm sure there's a ton of info about this. you should be able to find pinouts for both games as well. here's a link:

[url http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=rec.games.video.arcade.collecting] rgvac[/url]

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: crsdawg on September 17, 2003, 10:12:21 pm

here's a better link.

rgvac (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=rec.games.video.arcade.collecting)

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: paigeoliver on September 17, 2003, 10:18:27 pm

Gauntlet doesn't have an edge connector. Like many of the mid 80s non-Jamma atari titles it is all feature connectors. It makes wiring it from scratch a real pain in the butt.

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 10:22:50 pm

So It looks like I would be able to plug the gauntlet board right in huh?

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 10:24:35 pm

BTW, this cab was made in 1990

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: DarkKobold on September 17, 2003, 10:26:01 pm

Didn't you just have artwork made to turn that into a mame machine?

Didn't you also post about adding controls? You seem to have no idea what your doing with it.....

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: paigeoliver on September 17, 2003, 10:49:44 pm

Quote from: Bobby115 on September 17, 2003, 10:22:50 pm

So It looks like I would be able to plug the gauntlet board right in huh?

No, you would have to make a Gauntlet harness from scratch, which would be very time consuming, and would require buying a lot of special little plastic connectors.

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: BobA on September 18, 2003, 01:36:34 am

Here is info on converting a Gauntlet to JAMMA,    If this was done you could rewire your cab for jamma and connect many boards very easily.  The soccer board you have is not standard JAMMA and I could not find the wiring for it after a short search.   It might be easier to change to a jamma harness and ignore the soccer board unless it is a superset of jamma but hard to tell from the picture.  


http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/gauntlet/jamma/ (http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/gauntlet/jamma/)

BobA

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: SirPoonga on September 18, 2003, 02:05:22 am

I agree, you can convert it to gauntlet (I prefer Gauntlet II).  It looks like fromt he pic the right edge connector is JAMMA and the left is the JAMMA+ part.

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Bobby115 on September 18, 2003, 07:54:59 am

Thanks for te help..............I was very curious about this...........If it was a simple swap I would have done it, but it makes more sence for me to keep it a MAME :-)


Thanks for the help

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: paigeoliver on September 18, 2003, 07:57:24 am

Quote from: Bobby115 on September 18, 2003, 07:54:59 am

Thanks for te help..............I was very curious about this...........If it was a simple swap I would have done it, but it makes more sence for me to keep it a MAME :-)


Thanks for the help

Looks like a nice fully working dedicated game to me. Makes more sense in my eyes to leave it alone.

Title: Re:Can this be converted to Gauntlet?
Post by: Lilwolf on September 18, 2003, 09:23:59 am

btw, I have a gauntlet cab.  The cab itself is different.

You can convert it... but it won't look like a gauntlet cab... close...

The control panel is the first thing I notice.  Gauntlet has a flat control panel that goes over the sides by an inch or so.  The front is flat also.

NOTE:  this one is more practical and you should have a little more room... but it wont' be a gauntlet cab...  (ie, not a bad thing... just not the original).

If you don't have the board itself... I would go with a dedicated 4 player cab mamed before buying a gauntlet board and putting it in in the wrong cabinet.  Get some gauntlet side art (should fit) and you will have the look with more functionality.  

Remember... Simpsons is down right a fun game with 4 people... especially if they are all drunk!