Dig Dug up grade to 60 to 1

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I am new to this site, and have a Dig dug machine, and want to play other games and was wondering if this is even possible to do the Jamma up grade on this Please advise??
 
I am new to this site, and have a Dig dug machine, and want to play other games and was wondering if this is even possible to do the Jamma up grade on this Please advise??

Yes it's possible.

There exist at least two different varieties of Dig Dug: Atari and Namco. Atari Dig Dugs have a single large PCB. Namco Dig Dugs are multi-board rigs with interconnect cables. They, of course, have different pinouts. If you're handy with a soldering iron, you can build your own adapter (I built one to play Namco Galaga in my Atari Dig Dug cab). If not, Mike's arcade sells JAMMA adapters (both for Atari and Namco Dig Dug): http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=DIGDUG2JAMMA and http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=NAMCO2JAMMA

Don't forget that Dig Dug only has one "fire" button (aside from the little 1 player and 2 player buttons), so this will limit the JAMMA games you can play (well). Of course, you're also limited to vertical montior games.

Good luck, and welcome to the forum (from another relative newcomer here).
 
The adapters from Mike's arcade will allow you to play your Dig Dug board in a Jamma wired cab, but they won't help you convert your Dig Dug cab to play jamma boards.
 
Ah, yes. You are of course correct. Oops.

So it looks like you'd need to make an adapter to plug JAMMA boards into your Dig Dug harness. Not very difficult if you have soldering equipment. You should be able to find the parts you'll need from Bob Roberts (http://www.therealbobroberts.net). You'll need a 28/56 solder eyelet edge connector for the JAMMA boards to plug into (http://www.therealbobroberts.net/solder_eyelets.jpg), a 22/44 fingerboard to connect to the Dig Dug harness (http://www.therealbobroberts.net/solder_eyelets.jpg), and some wire. Google the pinouts (check several sources) and solder away.

A more destructive alternative would be to cut the wires from your existing connector (one at a time) crimp on new pins, and insert them in the appropriate place in a JAMMA connector housing (http://www.therealbobroberts.net/jamma_ecs.jpg). Not so easy to turn back with this option...

PS-don't connect pin 3 to the JAMMA connector, it has 36VAC used by Dig Dug for the high score save chip.
 
A more destructive alternative would be to cut the wires from your existing connector (one at a time) crimp on new pins, and insert them in the appropriate place in a JAMMA connector housing (http://www.therealbobroberts.net/jamma_ecs.jpg). Not so easy to turn back with this option.

Or the easiest way would be to just install a completely new JAMMA harness without altering the original Dig Dug wiring at all, except for the control panel and coin door (although you can just unplug them from the existing harness and connect your JAMMA harness wires and ground directly to the switches) and monitor (just make a new monitor connector on the JAMMA harness wires and plug it where the current connector is). Install a switcher, disconnect the connectors on the ARII, and you'll have a working JAMMA cab. Install an extra button on the CP if you wish, or use one of the Start buttons as an extra button.

This way you can turn it back into a Dig Dug pretty easily...
 
I've got an already butchered Dig Dug control panel if you don't want to destroy the one on your machine right now. I think this one had two joysticks and several buttons added to it (was converted to a Ring King). I think I completely stripped it and found a complete one before trying to restore it, so it's just bare metal.

Anyhow, it's yours if you want it.

- JM
 
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