Knowledge Base
1996.09.29 GUIDE TO LOWER MAINLAND ARCADES
VERSION 1.0a : 1996.09.29 by Glenn Tarigan Additional comments by "Moby" Henry Kong Andrew Chang Feel free to distribute this document. Make sure the credits remain intact. I'd like to get some comments, especially from people who have been to any of the arcades mentioned here. What can I do to improve this guide? Do you have any details or opinions to add? Note: "Lower Mainland" refers to a southwest portion of British Columbia, Canada. The major arcades listed so far
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Sheet3
Sheet2
Sheet1
_0000年不明
_1971_1975
_1976_1978
_1979
_1980
_1981
_1982
_1983
_1983_1
_1983_1
_1984
_1985
_1986
_1987
_1988
_1989
_1990
_1991
_1992
_1993
_1994
_1995
_1996
_1997
_1998
_1999
_2000
FoxVideoGames/Taito
Hyper Olympic (UK)
Vastar
パチフィーバー
三機電子
バッグマン
Stern/Taito
Bad Lands
バトルクルーザーM-12
ハリウッド
バンポリン
Hammer Car
ピタゴラスの大占術
Pitchman
ピット
Pit&Run
ファイアーフォックス
FightingRoller
Phozon
ブラスター
Pro Soccer
プロフィーバー
Professor Pacman
プロボウリング
ベビーパックマン
Bally
Pole
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Taito Board ID List
V5.0 Mar 28, 2001
Sorted By ROM Number
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Prom Stickers Board Number Game Notes
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?? M6100130A Nunchackun
067 M6100654A Xexex Konami 352898B
1-13 M6100047A Ninjakun (1984) (UPL84003A)
1-17 M6100168A SRD Mission (1986) CVG-48C
1-17 M6100213A Darkmist (1
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Arcade PCB Pinouts
Arcade Pinouts
1,003 Entries
Last Updated: May30, 2003
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/monitortech/gwoodcock_xyhelp.txt
HOW TO DIAGNOSE, REPAIR AND UPGRADE YOUR
AMPLIFONE AND WELLS-GARDNER COLOR VECTOR (XY) MONITORS
version 6.1 (4-6-96) by
Gregg Woodcock (woodcock@nortel.com)
This article is Copyright worldwide 1991, 1996; all rights reserved.
OFFICIAL CYA LEGAL WARNING AND WAIVER:
Although I have made every effort to be precise, this article may
contain errors. Even if it does not, some people may still damage their
machines or themselves while using the
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1.0) Conversion FAQ:
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1
REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4},
Added a few words on manuals in {7.3}
and analog controllers in {8.1.3})
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only)
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir
THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes,
To
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/williams_conversion.txt
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| SWITCHABLE CONVERSION BETWEEN ROBOTRON, JOUST, AND STARGATE |
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COPYRIGHT 1994
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 (Minor bug fix: Line 976 now shows the
correct "Y7-X8" connection, not the bogus
"Y7-X7" connection from 1.0)
REVISION DATE: 20 Oct 1994
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys
STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
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The author hereby grants permission to r
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/dragonsl.air.txt
From: dover@ll.mit.edu (David Humphrey)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Subject: Finally DL is done, here is some info
Date: 8 Jun 1995 16:16:23 GMT
Well, I finally have a Dragon's Lair running up to the point where I
am confident that I can successfully complete the game. Thanks to
"Blind Guy" Chris, Jim Rogers, and yes, even John Pierce at CPDIST,
for all of the input on how to jumper the boards, make the cables
and dissect the LDV1000 player (forgot... thanks to the Pioneer
Industrial di
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Typical Failures of Early Williams Games
From: woodcock@crchh75b.bnr.ca (Gregg Woodcock) Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting Subject: Re: Typical Failures of Early Williams Games Date: 22 Feb 1994 23:29:15 GMT richard.l.schieve (rls@cbnewsc.cb.att.com) wrote: > Several people have asked me to repost some of my old articles. > I suspect many have seen the following which was one of my first > "Tech Tips" ;-) Sorry to do this to you again, Rick, but I have added a BUNCH of stuff to your file and would like to "share", too (I c
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Technical Information
Note: The information and links on this page might get moved around quite a bit before things get all sorted out. I'm just going to start putting up all kinds of information that I've had archived away, so please pardon the mess! :)
Identifying Unknown Board Sets Back in 1994, Rick Schieve wrote an article about how to
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Taito Board ID List
If you have info for this Taito Board ID list, please submit to this site.
Submitted by Unknown
V1.9 May 19,1998 Sorted By ROM Number ==================== Prom Stickers Board Number Game Notes ------------- ------------ ---- ----- 21J Double Dragon A03 Water Ski A14 - A22 Sea Fighter Poseidon A24 M4300018A Birdie King (198?)
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FAQ: Buying Games at an Auction
Submitted by Doug Jefferys (dougj@sco.com) and Steve Ozdemir (ofoz@ihlpb.att.com)
NOTES FROM THE AUTHORS
The principal authors of this FAQ were Doug Jefferys and Steve Ozdemir . Although we did most of the writing work ourselves, we couldn't have produced this FAQ without the help of our loyal reviewers, a few of whom include:
Hedley Rainnie (hedley@iit.com), Steve Phillips (phillips@tegra.com), Jeff Turner (jeff@msc.edu)
If we missed any names in that list (and we probably did), let ei
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Forgotten Realms strategy and cheats
Submitted by David Hsu
If you are playing 2 player, when you get to the boss in the boat-like contraption which has gravity wells, guns, falling pointy things, if both of you are on the right wall (which blocks you from the boss), one person can shove the other thru the wall so that you can't be attacked by any of the things on the other side (named above).
There are several sections where one can go either up or down depending upon which barrier is shot first (top or bottom). If you shoot the bot
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/cinematronics-history.txt
THE HISTORY OF CINEMATRONICS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR VECTOR GAMES
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COPYRIGHT 1994, 1995
REVISION NUMBER: 2.0
REVISION DATE: 23 December 1994
REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (02/11/92 - First attempt at listing and ordering
all Cinematronics games.)
REVISION HISTORY: 2.0 (12/23/94 - Rearranged sections, added new sections
for Barrier, Speed Freak, Boxing Bugs,
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| SWITCHABLE CONVERSION BETWEEN GRAVITAR AND BLACK WIDOW |
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COPYRIGHT 1993
REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 (first public release)
REVISION DATE: 17 March 1994
CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys
STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
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The author hereby grants permission to reproduce and distribute this
document for personal use, subject to the condition that the document
(alon
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---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------.
Title : Arcade Game Pinouts :
Date : 09-January-2003 :
Source : taken from the Conversion FAQ v1.1 :
by Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir :
and pinout identification by Tim Lindquist :
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Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
From: rls@intgp8.ih.att.com (-Schieve,R.L.)
Subject: Re: how do you find the +5,+12,-5 voltages on a board, don't
have pinouts?
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 18:20:21 GMT
In article <5i2SznW.bubsy@delphi.com>, <bubsy@delphi.com> wrote:
>How do you find out which pins are which voltages on a board that you
>have no pinouts for?
>erik
Here is an old posting of mine that many have seen but maybe some
of the new people are interested:
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Dragon's Lair
Cinematronics Inc., 1983, pp. 6-9
The connector from the DL CPU to the disk player is composed of a ribbon
cable, a 24-pin DIP ribbon connector, and a 24-pin Centronics ribbon
connector. The #1 wire of the ribbon cable may go to the #1 pin of the
centronics connector, but then must connect to the #12 pin on the 24-
pin DIP connector. Yes, surprise me, but the cable is reversed.
LDV1000 connection DL M/B connection
(Pioneer manual description DL manual schematics)
DIO1 1
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Arcade Game Cheats
--- 720 --- (Contributor: unknown) In the ramp section, levels 8, 9, and 10: holding down the kick and jump buttons simultanously on the lip of the ramp will boost your air. This trick only works when you're going the correct speed (usually your third or fourth jump), and only once (as far as I can tell) per ramp session per level. ----------- Afterburner ----------- (Contributor: Anthony D. Chen) key: S - start button V - vulcan cannon M - missle F - foot sensor (only on sit-down version) stag
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Yet Another List
O-Taito is the Old Taito pinout on wiretap. N-Taito is the New-Taito pinout (Like Elevator Action). Quote by R. Schieve: "Taito.pin will match most for power, ground, monitor, and speaker connections but inputs are usually quite different." DECO/Data East is the Data East pinout. See Ring King.pin or KarateChamp.pin.I AtariV is Black Widow and Gravitar and Space Duel Konami if the Konami pinout. See Konami\Rush'n'Attack.pin. BZone is Battle Zone and Red Baron Tehkan games seem to follow th
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Hyper Fighting: Ken Strategy Guide
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Army Battlezone (Atari, 1980/1981)
Submitted by Unknown
"Army Battlezone remains a mystery, even to those of us who worked on it." Editor's Notes: I recently had the privilege of discussing Atari history with a member of Atari's development team. This individual worked at Atari for a period of several years, including the "Golden Age", and was a major contributor on many of the classics we've come to know know and love. A note of thanks to him, not just for the information on these pages, but for hours of fun in the arcades.
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/starwarstoesb.txt
Converting a Star Wars to an Empire Strikes Back arcade game.
Version 1.1, Copyright Cliff Koch, 1996
Revision log:
1.0 Original Posting
1.1 Added the data bus wires on the daughterboard netlist (oops).
I. Disclaimer
Doing this conversion requires reasonable soldering skills. Incorrect
wiring could cause damage to the game boards. You do these
modifications
at your own risk. I did my best to be accurate at describing the
conversion, but could have made an
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Samurai Shodown Mini-FAQ
____ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ / ___/ / |/ v \| | | | _ \ / | | | |__ / | | | | | |_| |/ | | Samurai Shodown mini-FAQ \__ \/ / | | | | | | | _ </ / | | Release 10 ___|/ _ | |_| | |_| | | \/ _ | | 11-05-93 | __/_/ |_|_| |_|\___/|_| /_/\|_|_| |/____ _ _ ___ ____ ___ _ _ __ _ / ___| | | |/ _ \| _ \ / _ \| |_| | \| | | |__ | |_| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \__ \| _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ___| | | | | |_| | |_| | |_| | | | | | ___/|_| |_|\___/ ____/ \___
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How to WIN at NBA JAM! by Randolph S. Vance and William G. Henderson
E-Mail: RSVANC00@mik.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) WGHEND00@mik.uky.edu (NeXT Mail) Version 1.13 Revised: August 18th, 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Introduction. Are you tough enough to take on all 27 of the NBA teams? If you think you are, get set for the most intense basketball video game you'll ever play! ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------ History. Vers
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TIME CRISIS ENEMIES GUIDE
Written by Desmond Hew wilddog_tc@hotmail.com Jun 18, 1999 [PLAYSTATION and ARCADE] This FAQ may be electronically reproduced in whole or part, free of charge, as long as credit is given to its author, Desmond Hew. This FAQ is NOT to be altered in any way or used for profitable/promotional purposes of any kind. This document was created and is owned only by me [Desmond Hew]. You can e-mail me at wilddog_tc@hotmail.com on your comments or whatsoever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Addresses FAQ (North American) for rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Created and maintained by Tony Jones (tony@rtd.com) $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 1997/12/24 18:35:05 $ Thanks to: Rick Schieve Greg Woodcock (obsolete component vendors) If you have additions, corrections and (especially) more precise information about the products each supplier offers, please send me e-mail -- thanks! Contents: 1a) Game Manufacturers 1b) Game Manufacturers no longer in business. 2) Informational sources 3) Auction houses 4a) Distributors (Coin-op/United S
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Atari Black & White Vector Generator Theory of Operation
(Extreme thanks to Duncan Brown for passing along this time consuming information!!) VECTOR ROM OR DISPLAY LIST CODE (as seen by the State Machine): Byte 1 Byte 2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +--+--+- Y length (or rise) | | | | | | | | | | +---------------------------+---------- Overall scale factor | | | | | | | | (8 7 6 5)
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FAQ: Conversion v1.1
COPYRIGHT 1994 REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4}, Added a few words on manuals in {7.3} and analog controllers in {8.1.3}) REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only) CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes, Tony Jones, John Keay, Patti Ozd
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/woodcock_tempest_repair.txt
Troubleshooting your Tempest Machine, by Gregg Woodcock
This article is Copyright worldwide 1991, 1995; all rights reserved.
This is a file I have put together which should get you started on
repairing your non-working Atari Tempest game. It lists all the
problems I have seen and lots of information from the various manuals.
Monitor failures are much more common than game board failures (in fact,
I find the game boards to be fairly robust) and that topic is so lengthy
that it is covered in another
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Bally Midway MCR System Games FAQ
********************************* Bally Midway MCR System Games FAQ version 1.0 Writers Mark Jenison Clay Cowgill ********************************* I. Introduction II. The MCR system classes A. CPU's 1. MCR (I) 2. MCR II 3. MCR III B. Super Sound I/O C. Video 1. Video Generator II 2. Video Generato
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*********************************
Bally Midway MCR System Games FAQ
version 1.0
Writers
Mark Jenison Clay Cowgill
*********************************
I. Introduction
II. The MCR system classes
A. CPU's
1. MCR (I)
2. MCR II
3. MCR III
B. Super Sound I/O
C. Video
1. Video Generator II
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Street Fighter 2 FAQ
Rank Character Score %age Crushes Crushed by ---------------------------------------------------------------- - 1) Guile 71 59.2 Balrog (10) Sagat/Ryu (3) 2) Sagat 70 58.3 E. Honda (8) Blanka (3) 3) M. Bison 69 57.5 Balrog (8) Guile/Zangief (4) 4) Vega 68 56.7 Dhalsim (9) Guile/E. Honda (4) 5) Ryu 67 55.8 Balrog (9) Sagat (3) 6) Blanka 62 51.7 CL/Dh/Sag (7) Balrog
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A Random Games-list
Game Name Manufacturer Year Pinout Class ---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- V 005 Sega 1981 18 Wheeler Midway 1979 3D Bowling MED 1978 H 720 Degrees Atari Games 1986 800 Fathom USB 1982 H Aeroboto Willia
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