Re: Freeplay adapter board (was Re: Dig Dug freeze problem)

As a 'kit', this would probably be a fun project. Although most likely
easier to just hack program code and burn a new EPROM or two rather than
adding additional hardware.

Tim Lindquist has done some nice work thus far, as has Craig Aker.
Here
http://www.arcadecollecting.com/hacks.html

and here
http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/mcr/dot/index.htm

tm

solarfox@texas.net wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:53:34 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>
> >I like it when help I offer actually "works" - hehe!
> >
> >I'd like to add my hat to the "Free Play Hack" need. If the game used a
> >standard leaf switch as a 1 or 2 player start button, I would just stack
> >another "coin switch" with some fish paper like a pinball machine, but
> >micro switches prevent that.
>
> OK, I have a question here; this is a project I've been kicking around
> on paper for a while...
>
> How much interest would there be in a little PCB which could be fitted
> into a cabinet, in between the coin/player-start switches and the game
> board, that would automagically trigger the appropriate number of credits
> on the coin switches and then trigger the player-start switch whenever it
> detects the 1-Player or 2-Players button being pressed?
>
> (What I have in mind is something as "universal" and as minimally
> invasive to the original wiring harness as possible; ideally, all that it
> would require is for you to tack the PCB's player-start and coin-switch
> wires across the originals, without actually breaking or cutting the
> harness; the only wiring taps that might be needed would be to pick off GND
> and +5V from somewhere in the cabinet.)
>
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