Galaxian Namco and Midway pinouts

[Belike]

If I remeber right, it is not exactly the same, my old friend rivired something on the edge connector when we exchanged the Midway pcb for the Namco, the screen was dissorted and there was no sound.

[Etienne MacGyver]

we need him as a new member here !

I love that dude 

[level42]

Taking the liberty of sharing some info that Andy (www.andysarcade.com) found out about and shared on Facebook.

It's differences in the video output and causes the games too look a bit different (in color I guess):

[Belike]

There was a nice tutorial with pics about converting a Galaxian board from AC to DC, anybody have the link?

[Belike]

Found it here:
http://www.arcades.plus.com/galjamm1.htm

[level42]

That's the quick and dirty way....this is the proper way:

http://www.arcades.plus.com/galjamm2.htm

[Laschek]

Bob has a way that leaves the PCB completely unharmed: http://www.therealbobroberts.net/adaptor.html

[Belike]

Finally I had the chance to test the pcb with Andre's Galaxian adapter.
Game keeps resetting, test mode shows bad rom for a second.
It is exactly this issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWMoIMuw5Pk
Reseated everything, tested the daughtercard socket's connection (all fine), nothing changed.
Anybody had the same issue?

[level42]

Compare the ROMs with http://romident.coinopflorida.com

[Belike]

Compare the ROMs with http://romident.coinopflorida.com

Don't have an eprom reader/programmer.

[level42]

Need one 

Or send the ROMs to me

[Belike]

Need one 

Or send the ROMs to me

I think I will try this single rom hack:
http://www.arcades.plus.com/galsingle.htm
I just have to copy the wiring hack of my Namco Galaxian pcb and ask somebody to burn me a 27128 Eprom.

[ckong]

I have a Namco galaxian board,  but the game is set to very hard to play and I only get a bonus ship at 10k. I never get so far!

So I want to change the game settings (the board has one dipswitch bank with six switches) but I can't find a wwwlink to the setting combinations.  Can somebody help me?

I found the midway board settings of course,  but they are not the same.

[level42]

It's not set to very hard, you are just a spoilt sissy Galaga player.










 

[level42]

Seriously: game difficulty is not set by dip switches, it just depends on the ROM set version.
The setting at which score you get an extra ship does not influence the difficulty of the game.


So.........my first reply is not just kidding


I'm not sure about Namco boards.....why is that in your Bally Midway cab anyway ? give that board to me and I'll buy you a Bally-Midway one so we will both have the original combination