Anyone have a single cab for multiple PCB's??

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Maybe I am not wording my question so its understood lol. What I want to do is take an empty cab that would have a PS, monitor, and basic control panel IE (joystick and two buttons) with JAMMA harness,and use it to play spare PCB'S. Instead of buying multiple cabs I want to be able to swap the PCB and marquee every few months to something different so that once in awhile I have a new game in the same cab while taking up no more space. I do not want a multigame as I dislike them. Anyone here have something like this?
 
multijamma or a cab that allows you to easily swap PCBs.

BrentRadio used to have a picture of a closet full of PCBs that he would swap into a Double Dragon Cabinet.
 
Maybe I am not wording my question so its understood lol. What I want to do is take an empty cab that would have a PS, monitor, and basic control panel IE (joystick and two buttons) with JAMMA harness,and use it to play spare PCB'S. Instead of buying multiple cabs I want to be able to swap the PCB and marquee every few months to something different so that once in awhile I have a new game in the same cab while taking up no more space. I do not want a multigame as I dislike them. Anyone here have something like this?

I don't have one, YET, but I've been toying with a number of ideas for a custom multi-game cab to hold a ton of PCBs. Everything from having a rotating monitor for different game configurations, to making a "cartridge" mount to where I could easily swap boards on home-made mounting cards that slide into a fixed JAMMA mount. Hell my "dream cab" would have support for twelve PCBs using two multi-JAMMAs, a rotating monitor, the 60-in-1 multigame and Arcadeshop's multigame PCB. There are also various multi-JAMMA switches out there that can support up to six games, but be careful because I hear the quality of some of them really suck.
 
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I try to keep at least one Jamma cab readily accessible to test out/play different boards in. Of course most of my cabs are Jamma so this isn't too difficult especially with the adapters that are readily available. A Dynamo with pullout drawer is ideal for this sort of use.
 
This is exactly what JAMMA was meant to be.

No wire swapping or cutting or altering control panels. Just swap the board and a minimal amount of artwork and it's a new game.
Sounds like the way you want to go.

Some of those games on your want list could work in the same cabinet too.
Atari System II-
720
Championship Sprint
APB
Paperboy

They all have DRASTICALLY different control panels, but the same basic harness will work. There are extra harness pieces between the games, but if you've got all the parts, a swap from one to another would take less than a half hour.

720 does have that giant control panel though- I don't know if a smaller version was made to put into a 'standard' System II cabinet.

Several Taito games will work in the same cabinet- Jungle King/Hunt, Elevator Action, Tin Star, Sea Fighter Poseidon (!!), Time Tunnel (!!!), Front Line, Wild Western. The rotary controller is hard to find though. I've got several, but I'm not selling :)

Another nice one is Konami- Amidar, Pooyan, Time Pilot '84, Super Cobra, what else? Megazone? Legendary Wings? - not too sure about that last one. At one time I had one of those cabinets and ten boardsets that would fit. Track and Field will boot up, but you can't control it with the standard CP of course.
 
I have a Moonwalker that was converted to MvC2 tha I use for this purpose. It is also my test bench when I need to test monitors or circuit boards.
 
I have my JAMMA cabinet set up with a Multi-JAMMA for 8 boards at once, or I can switch in a single JAMMA board through the front drawer. This is an old picture of the back, but gives you an idea of how I'm housing multiple boards in one cab.

PCBs.jpg
 
I only have 5 machines and 2 of them are Dynamo cabs. One vertical and one horizontal. I have over 30 boards for these 2 cabs and change games like I change my underwear. How often that is, I'll leave up to you. My horizontal was a Street Fighter so it has all the buttons I'll ever need. And my vertical has 2 buttons. I intend to add a 3rd when I get around to it.

I'm not into the mutligames either so this works out great for me.

Hec
 
I have my JAMMA cabinet set up with a Multi-JAMMA for 8 boards at once, or I can switch in a single JAMMA board through the front drawer. This is an old picture of the back, but gives you an idea of how I'm housing multiple boards in one cab.

PCBs.jpg

Wow! thats crazy!! Never seen anything like that before
 
I only have 5 machines and 2 of them are Dynamo cabs. One vertical and one horizontal. I have over 30 boards for these 2 cabs and change games like I change my underwear. How often that is, I'll leave up to you. My horizontal was a Street Fighter so it has all the buttons I'll ever need. And my vertical has 2 buttons. I intend to add a 3rd when I get around to it.

I'm not into the mutligames either so this works out great for me.

Hec

Yeah I don't plan to change boards allot. I just wanna keep things fresh for when the homies come over so they are not playing the same games every time they come back.
 
I had a Jamma cab years ago I used to swap boards in . I built a shelf , just a cut piece of plywood and put it right above the power supply so when switching boards I just laid them on the shelf inside instead of having to mount them . I fit three boards on it and I could reach in the coin door and swap the harness to another game . I sold it and got more into dedicated classics but my next plan is to pick up two 19 inch monitor Jamma cabs , one vertical and one horizontal and then pick up a bunch of PCB's to play in them . Really with all the adapters for all the classic games , in reality all you need is two Jamma cabs and you can play almost every game .
 
Really with all the adapters for all the classic games , in reality all you need is two Jamma cabs and you can play almost every game .

Or a single machine that has an easily rotatable monitor.
 
I had a Jamma cab years ago I used to swap boards in . I built a shelf , just a cut piece of plywood and put it right above the power supply so when switching boards I just laid them on the shelf inside instead of having to mount them . I fit three boards on it and I could reach in the coin door and swap the harness to another game . I sold it and got more into dedicated classics but my next plan is to pick up two 19 inch monitor Jamma cabs , one vertical and one horizontal and then pick up a bunch of PCB's to play in them . Really with all the adapters for all the classic games , in reality all you need is two Jamma cabs and you can play almost every game .


Yeah, this is true. I build adaptors for many classic boards when I work on them. Most classic machines used the standard +5, +12, and -5 vdc that Jamma uses. Some oddball games use different voltages though, +24 vdc is pretty common but it usually only goes to the coin counter so I just ignore it.
 
I have my JAMMA cabinet set up with a Multi-JAMMA for 8 boards at once, or I can switch in a single JAMMA board through the front drawer. This is an old picture of the back, but gives you an idea of how I'm housing multiple boards in one cab.

PCBs.jpg

Awesome! What did you mount the PCBs on? Looks like of like fiberglass sheets in the pic
 
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