Dig Dug and Galaga?

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Note sure if I understand this correctly, but I've read some comments before on other posts regarding a link between Dig Dug and Galaga, and I noticed some comments regarding Dig Dug in Galaga's MAME driver source. What's the story behind these two? Is Dig Dug compatible with Galaga in some way? Reason I ask is, I have a few Dig Dug boards I'd like to be able to test but don't have a DD cab (just the harness for).
 
Yes. They are closely related. They are both Namco games. (Although the uninitiated think of Dig Dug as Atari, and Galaga as Midway.)

As far as pinouts... Atari changed the pinout of Dig Dug, so unless you have a non-US DD board, it's not going to be plug-compatible with Galaga. You can make an adapter; I did (well, actually mine was to put a Galaga PCB in my DD cabinet).
 
Thanks for the reply Darren. Glad to know they aren't plug and play compatible at least. I have a DD harness...I'm just curious if it would easily wire up to my Galaga cab for testing purposes
 
I'm just curious if it would easily wire up to my Galaga cab for testing purposes

Afraid not. The similarities lie in the game hardware design itself (which chips are used, and how they're connected). The cabinet wiring--power supply, video & control connections, etc--were done by the licensing companies (Atari & Midway)... and done quite differently.

You might be able to frankenstein something up using the power brick & AR2 from your Tempest, and a monitor from one of your standard res games, and the DD PCB & harness... but it would probably just be easier to make plug adapter.
 
Afraid not. The similarities lie in the game hardware design itself (which chips are used, and how they're connected). The cabinet wiring--power supply, video & control connections, etc--were done by the licensing companies (Atari & Midway)... and done quite differently.

You might be able to frankenstein something up using the power brick & AR2 from your Tempest, and a monitor from one of your standard res games, and the DD PCB & harness... but it would probably just be easier to make plug adapter.


Crap...I didn't even think about buying an adapter from ArcadeShop. Good call Darren, since my SFII has the edge connector directly behind the control panel which flips down.
 
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