Does anyone know anything about the Cabal Joystick version

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Does anyone know anything about the Cabal Joystick version

Any help figuring out how to get Cabal running as a joystick game would be appreciated. I've never seen a joystick board and wonder how they did it. Bootleg? MAME lists both boots and normal joystick roms.

I was originally trying to build myself a Cabal HS1 Trackball cab but I have a problem where I like to have my machines able to swap boards and change. I have all of the stuff to dress a machine as a Blood Brothers but the problem is that it would be useless to put Cabal in there unless I had a joystick version of the board.

I have 3 Cabal Trackball boards and 2 of the trackball adaptor boards need to put a WICO trackball on it. I really just want a joystick version of the board cause I think it plays just as fine as a Joystick game. The fact is that I mostly played it as a Joystick game. My brother and I became just pros at the game and would almost play it daily with one quarter each. We got to the point where we finished it with just one man each and would have a massive surplus of grenades even after finishing the game.

It's not everyone's grail game but it's special to me and my brother so I thought that eventually I would love to have a nice HS1 that I could swap from Cabal to Blood Brothers.
 
I understand it not to be a ROM swap but a third-party adapter board.
Have not actually seen it.
 
Not sure, but if you're looking to buy a Blood Bros. PCB let me know, I think I still have one that I don't use much. I've only played Cabal as a trackball, and Blood Bros as a joystick game. I prefer the trackball controls.
 
I have 2 blood bros, I assume that the cabal (joystick) board is straight for the joystick version because it works fine in MAME as joystick.

There's no info in the manuals i've seen for joystick controls for Cabal.
 
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This is on the wikipedia page for Cabal:

"The arcade cabinet is a standard upright. Each player uses a trackball to move the player from side to side, and move the crosshairs about the screen. On later board revisions, a joystick was installed instead with an optional sub-pcb for use with a trackball. With a trackball, rolling (an invincible movement during which the player could not attack) is done by pushing the trackball to maximum speed."
 
I could see using a trackball being a lot of fun. But I always played it on a machine with joysticks.
 
This is on the wikipedia page for Cabal:

"The arcade cabinet is a standard upright. Each player uses a trackball to move the player from side to side, and move the crosshairs about the screen. On later board revisions, a joystick was installed instead with an optional sub-pcb for use with a trackball. With a trackball, rolling (an invincible movement during which the player could not attack) is done by pushing the trackball to maximum speed."

Hmmm my boards seem unresponsive to standard Joystick movements.

I'll probably have to test them all again.
 
I could see using a trackball being a lot of fun. But I always played it on a machine with joysticks.

The big difference is diving to dodge. On the joystick it's a button press. With the trackball you wildly spin into a lower corner, which made frantic dodging that much more fun.
 
yeah but I just want to be able to get it in a cab and not dedicated the whole cab to just that game.

If I put it in a 3 button cab I can use the cab for other decent 3 button JAMMA games. I have all of the art for Blood Brothers.
 
I have two variants of Cabal pcb and both don't work straight plugged into a jamma joystick cab
 
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