Does anyone know about Point Blank dedicateds

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So I'm doing some research cause i'm used to seeing the white one like this.

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I have also seen a Yellow trimmed one like this more than once so I don't think it's a conversion but an alternative one built. Does anyone know any history or what the differences between these two, outside of the obvious marquee box differences? Most kit art use the 2nd one shown's variant of marquee art.

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Imported vs US built cabs?
 

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The 2nd one is a Lethal Enforcers conversion.

It's the Dynamo-built US dedicated cabinet -- they aren't terribly common and are radically different from LE.

The first one is the Japanese cabinet that wasn't officially sold here, but some Japanese stuff always seems to find it's way to the west coast.
 
It's the Dynamo-built US dedicated cabinet -- they aren't terribly common and are radically different from LE.

Different yes but I wouldn't go as far as saying radically different. They both have the curve in the front and guns and holster mounted on the panel the same way. The Point Blank cab has a steeper angle on the back where the mirror is mounted, other than artwork I would say that the cabinet design is similar.

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Different yes but I wouldn't go as far as saying radically different. They both have the curve in the front and guns and holster mounted on the panel the same way. The Point Blank cab has a steeper angle on the back where the mirror is mounted, other than artwork I would say that the cabinet design is similar.

Right, they're different enough that a casual glance is enough to discern them from each other as they have different features for retrodisplay gun cabinets.
PB deds aren't that common so if you haven't seen one before a LE might seem close.

I had been trying to track down a ded PB since it was released, basically. I found a couple in the late 90's but nobody was willing to sell regardless of offer. I came upon one about 8 years ago from Namco, back when they had 500+ arcades and a Point Blank in most of them, though they only had 3 dedicated machines in total -- everybody, including Namco themselves, went with kits. To put that into perspective, they had just as many Ridge Racer 3Ms (3-monitor version) back then -- I doubt anybody here has even heard of one of those :( (somebody sell one to me!)

And I suppose that first import cab PB pic is probably a UK release, as the game was called GunBullet in the rest of the world.

All of that series of gun cabs from Namco are pretty cool looking..

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Let us know if you find out anything else. Among the mysteries, system16.org says Gunbalina is Namco system 11, but the PCB that came with mine (formerly dirt's) is clearly marked system 10. System 10 boards appear to be daughtercard swappable, as I was able to play a Mr. Driller 2 on the same System 10 PCB that came with Gunbalina.

The one dirt traded me is a converted Point Blank/Gun Bullet, FWIW. Has the original Point Blank side art with a Gunbalina sticker over it and the Gunbalina marquee. There are flyers showing full Gunbalina side art. The hookups are jamma with an adapter to a mini harness. The adapter is part of a PCB cage that also has hookups for what I assume to be the gun PCB. I can post pics if needed.

I was able to track down a Point Blank 1 PCB on eBay and plug it in. Got video but the guns don't work. I also got what looks like the correct PB1 interconnect board that I haven't plugged in yet (the PB3 interconnect is slightly different, although it seems like everything from PB1 plugged in OK via the PB3 interconnect board). These cabs have a 29" monitor. It's a Toei IIRC. Don't think it's tri-res, might be dual res, but I don't recall being able to find any info when I googled the model number.

Here's the flyers:

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Oh, the PB1 PCB I got is system 8 or 9, very large, and less surface mount stuff. It doesn't at all fit in the cab's PCB cage, which leads me to believe different Point Blank PCBs were made for conversion kits and dedicateds.
 
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