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Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - SUCCESS!!
« on: May 17, 2005, 03:10:04 pm »
I am currently building a Mini-Pacman cabinet for my son Ryan's birthday in a couple of weeks.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2005, 03:20:04 pm »
Wow.

It would be worth $14 to me to go get a Pav-TV with the big red joystick and nice labeled places on the PCB to solder/splice to.

Your deductions look right to me, but I only have your pictures to go from.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2005, 03:29:06 pm »
Quote from: MinerAl on May 17, 2005, 03:20:04 pm
It would be worth $14 to me to go get a Pav-TV with the big red joystick and nice labeled places

Do you mean the Pac-TV? 
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2005, 03:31:25 pm »
Heh... these stupid fat fingers of mine...

Yeah, the PacMan/Galaxian/DigDug/Bosconian/Rally-X 5-in-1 TV Game.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2005, 03:48:53 pm »
I think I saw one at Gamestop.  If I fry this one, I'll get the new one.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2005, 06:01:33 pm »
it looks like you're spot on for the direction buttons and from my experience hacking controls [pc , dreamcast , psx , ms pac] all the grounds have been connected.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2005, 06:17:55 pm »
Quote from: greven grevs on May 17, 2005, 06:01:33 pm
it looks like you're spot on for the direction buttons and from my experience hacking controls [pc , dreamcast , psx , ms pac] all the grounds have been connected.

I agree about the common grounds.

It's hard to tell about the directions since the front and back aren't perfect overlays.  Could you solder a jumper wire and tap the 4 suspected contacts while you have it turned on?  That way you won't spend all your time and found out that it was wrong.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2005, 06:43:05 pm »
Quote from: fl0yd on May 17, 2005, 06:17:55 pm
Quote from: greven grevs on May 17, 2005, 06:01:33 pm
it looks like you're spot on for the direction buttons and from my experience hacking controls [pc , dreamcast , psx , ms pac] all the grounds have been connected.

I agree about the common grounds.

It's hard to tell about the directions since the front and back aren't perfect overlays.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2005, 07:35:21 am »
Common Ground - Just use a Multimeter on the Ohms setting and touch the two points - if it zeros, they're common.

Old school gamepad hacking trick - You can carefully score (using a knife or preferably a Dremel) between the contact points - pink lines on attachment.  This give you a large area on either side of the score line to solder to, or at least allows you to be sloppier with your soldering.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2005, 09:24:36 am »
Your deductions are right

Go ahead and start soldering and enjoy :)
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - PCB HACK QUESTIONS
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2005, 09:43:13 am »
Thanks everybody for your help! 

Please follow this project in Project Announcements starting next week as I should have more questions/results.
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Re: Hacking Namco 5-in-1 Pacman - SUCCESS!!
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2005, 11:50:02 am »
MiniPacman has now been successfully hacked.
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