Cruis'n Exotica / Cruisin Exotica Link Cable, Ethernet, etc

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Cruis'n Exotica / Cruisin Exotica Link Cable, Ethernet, etc

Hello everyone,

A friend bought two Cruis'n Exotica sit downs that we are working on getting fully running.

I'm confused by the link cable stuff. The documentation is way nutty, and doesn't match up to the machine.



What I read from the official documentation:

* You can use a 10baseT ethernet hub to link up to 8 machines, of which 2 sets of 4 can be played multiplayer.

* There are cables and a crossover connector (which sounds like ethernet) included with the games

* There is a small box under the main board that has the RJ-45 connector where you plug in the ethernet cable




What I see in reality:

There is a firewire port on the board

Another friend with the game has 1 cabinet and it had a long cable with one end terminated with a 6 pin firewire connector laying in the bottom. I didn't see the other end of it, so I'm not sure if it had a RJ-45 on the other end.




We're going to try connecting the two machines with a standard 6' 6 pin firewire cable once the 2nd monitor is repaired.



But I'm curious, does anyone know if it's just ethernet on the wire? Was there an adapter on some of them that went from the firewire port on the system board to a RJ-45 ethernet jack?

There are no illustrations of detailed info in the manual on where the link cable plugs in on the main board.



It's far fetched but if it's ethernet there is some desire in our circle of friends to make a free software load for a off the shelf linksys routers that will make the games able to play each other across the internet. Maybe even a server where anyone with one and internet can join. Not sure the feasibility of this due to timing and due to the way one game is master but it's something we want to look at doing as a hackerspace project.
 
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I found some new information in a manual addendum that says that it's just firewire.

So I'm guessing the network hub for 4 players for the Cruis'n Exotica is a 4 port firewire hub?
 
just make sure you DON'T EVER roll over the link cable. If it shorts out, you can/will fry both pcbs..

No, I have not done it, but I know someone who has. So you need to be careful...
 
Interesting. The firewire cable won't physically roll, but if it was converted to ethernet it would.

I know in the manual they talk about a an adapter to connect two cabs together that goes between the cables, which sounds like an ethernet crossover cable.

I've been looking on ebay for pictures of inside the cabinets and such.
 
Bumping an old thread because I am still looking for this solution. Any hints on how to connect these machines? Perhaps I can grab a standard firewire cable and slice it open if cabling just needs to be interchanged?

From newsgroups.derkeiler.com in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting:
CRUIS' N EXOTICA link cable FOUND and here is the exact info

What is needed? A Firewire cable that is 6 pin male on each end.

It is suggested to buy a cable of 12ft.
 
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Did you try just plugging them together? Also do these run Windows? Windows will generally use fierwire cards as network cards.
 
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