this shows the modification I made to my Tron Mini cabinet. In the coinslot on the right, you can see the wire hanger bit that i installed. All you need to do is press the left coin return button on the front of the coin door to "drop a credit" into the machine
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A better image, showing the same hack to my Fullsize Tron machine. As the button presses in, the wire drops through the coin slot, pushing down the coin switch.
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A similar modification, this time done with my Scramble cabinet. I had to be creative as to where to hang the wire from. It works pretty well.
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For my el-cheapo Yie Ar Kung-Fu cabinet, i was missing the lock for the coin door, so i decided to go a different route. I found that the older leaf-switches required the same size hole as the door lock, so i wired in this hack. Yes. I soldered the wires on. It's not like i was destroying a classic or anything. At least I didn't drill any holes.
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The top of the machine. (eventually, all three of these will be mosaiced together.
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The middle.
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The bottom
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A shot showing a general overview of the inside of the cabinet. It's mostly empty space. From here you can see the rechargable battery that i installed so that high scores are saved yet again. (That's the small yellow brick on the left side, on top of the foot pedal mechanism.
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Same thing, different angle. I did my best to clean it up when i got it, but it's still pretty nasty in there.
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One of the problems with these boards is that they draw more current than the edge connect can handle. The edge connect or the board eventually burn themselves off, and no longer exist. A previous owner made this modification, which is about what i'd do, although i'd drop another molex connector in there so i could remove the board completely. Hey.. It gets the job done.
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My Tron mini cabinet. Currently, it houses Satan's Hollow.
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A shot showing the main board sandwich.
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A shot showing how tight the inside of one of these Mini cabinets really is.
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The power supply I added in a few years back. I was all proud of it back then, but i really screwed up. I should have left the originall harness intact, and added my powersupply on non-destructively. Oh well. Can't do anything about it now. I'll restore it eventually.
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This is what Dig-Dug looks like. It's a huge board. Atari seemed to like huge boards. (That's a ruler next to it for reference.
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This is my DIG-DUG to JAMMA adapter. It has line connections for audio in and out to both sides. This leads off to a pair of amplified speakers inside the cabinet.
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My bootleg JAMMA ms-Pac board.
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Pengo. (I added the extra white duct tape over the eprom windows.)
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Pengo to JAMMA adapter
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The Scramble Cabinet
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Inside, with the dig-dug board installed. between the wiring harness and the board are: a konami to JAMMA adapter, then the above JAMMA to dig-dug adapter.
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The power supply I've got in there now. It's out of an old DIGITAL GiGi graphics terminal. Nothing fancy.
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The shelf inside the cabinet, showing the amplified speakers, coin drawer, and a bad power supply. I should just throw that thing out. heh.
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This is the Scramble/Konami to JAMMA adapter that allows the Scramble cabinet to run JAMMA games.
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu cabinet. This has the new plexiglass control panel on it that i made a few weeks back. It needs to have the buttons re-arranged though. It's a bit uncomfortable at times.
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