Galaga on Dig Dug hardware ???

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Has to be the weirdest thing I have ever seen in person.
I got the PCB, took it out of the box and had two thoughts...
"Why (and how) would anyone think of this?"
"There is NO WAY this could possibly work!"
Took it home and popped it into my Dig Dug and what d'ya know... it DOES work.
Little different... no starfield background... characters look a little different too.
The colors are whack but the monitor in the DD is pretty sketchy anyway... needs some love.
Sounds seem accurate and appropriate.
Here's a link to an album containing a video of my son playing it also:
http://s972.photobucket.com/albums/ae206/alejandro_madera/Arcade/Galaga on Dig Dug/
Without further ado...
 

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They were both from Namco, so it's not really a surprise.

I am very surprised. have you seen a Galaga boardset?
There is nothing in common between Dig Dug and Galaga EXCEPT who fronted the money for their creation (Namco).
Look at all the crap attached all over this PCB and then hidden in epoxy resin.
 
I am very surprised. have you seen a Galaga boardset?
There is nothing in common between Dig Dug and Galaga EXCEPT who fronted the money for their creation (Namco).
Look at all the crap attached all over this PCB and then hidden in epoxy resin.

Actually there's a lot in common between Dig Dug & Galaga. The Namco versions of the two look nearly identical (different video boards IIRC). Only the Atari version of Dig Dug (which this is) looks very different. Atari, I guess, at the time didn't care for multi-PCB configurations (and didn't mind making giant PCBs) so they layed it out on a single board. Same stuff though; 3 Z80s, same Namco customs, etc.

That said, that is still one of the wackiest mods I've ever seen. I wonder if it runs the original software, or if they had to modify the code too...
 
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Actually there's a lot in common between Dig Dug & Galaga. The Namco versions of the two look nearly identical (different video boards IIRC).
I've probably never seen the Namco version of Dig Dug... that's why I didn't know that.
How much do you have to know about this stuff to be able to make all that crap and string it all together?
Sheesh.
 
Nice mini Dig Dig.

What's it like playing Galaga on it? How's the joystick for it?
 
Hack

Buddy of mine has one of those hacked dig dug to balata pcbs.. He seems to think there was a "service" or guy who used to take pcbs from ops and hack them to work.. Man, that's a ton of work.. Guess original galaga pcbs were gold back then..
 
I've never seen one but I've seen pics of it. Its one hell of a Frankenhack alright. Not the kind of thing I would want to do. I would think it would be much easier and faster to just build a Galaga to Dig Dug adapter.
 
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