Had a "pal" join me in my arcade today

flynn54321

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Got this one up and running today. Had riptor repair the board for me, and found a working power supply board in a box of spare stuff I had laying around. I don't really know much about this game, or what the story behind it is... Does anyone know much about it? Either way its a cool game to add in to my collection.
 

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Damn! Isn't that pretty freaking rare? I have never seen a PCB, let alone a cabinet running it. Played it in MAME. Not bad. I would like to have one just for the sake of collecting Pac games. What pinout does it use. Does it have its own or is it pin compatible with Super Pac?
 
Damn! Isn't that pretty freaking rare? I have never seen a PCB, let alone a cabinet running it. Played it in MAME. Not bad. I would like to have one just for the sake of collecting Pac games. What pinout does it use. Does it have its own or is it pin compatible with Super Pac?

It's the same pinout as a super pac.
 
Correcting myself, the Wikipedia entry says it runs on Super Pac-Man hardware. If its just a ROM swap, I have an extra Super Pac PCB.
 
I got a Pac & Pal board from Riptor too. I think it is a very cool game. I'm building a dedicated cabinet for one from an old converted Super Pac cabaret cabinet. (Sadly gutted and converted to a Trivia Whiz...)

There is also another variant of the same game called Pac Man & Chomp Chomp:

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8957

It is cool to own such a rare variant of the Pac series. I can't wait to finish the cabinet. I originally found the game on a Wii Namco Museum game. I had never heard of it before. When I saw a board pop up for sale I jumped on it!
 
Huh, was something in the air to get us to all want a Pac & Pal game? I also bought one from Riptor.

Hey flynn54321, did you need any other boards other than the one Riptor sent you to get it working? I thought I read somewhere that Super Pac-Man has a second board doing something (not power) and now I can't find any evidence of that being the case.
 
Wowser! That's quite something. You should make that a custom dedicated US version.
 
Designing a Miru and eyeing the instruction card for fun with goofy Engrish translation (reference picture is too blurry to copy the Japanese).
I've taken on a random project for fun to design full art for this special game, starting with the instruction card.
 

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That game is A LOT of fun.

Gary at Funspot made a cabinet for it at the most recent ACAM tournament. I really liked how it turned out. Really made me want to build one. He made it look like a NAMCO style Pac-cabinet. It was sweet.
 
Saw this video. Wonder if the marquee is a legit one...

http://youtu.be/CISGsngSXmQ

I wonder. White coin door, style completely from the flyer, but still Namco cabinet and CPO. I believe it was a custom job.

That kind of idea was one of my initial ideas for a marquee but instead I made it minimalistic. :)
 

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I wonder. White coin door, style completely from the flyer, but still Namco cabinet and CPO. I believe it was a custom job.

That kind of idea was one of my initial ideas for a marquee but instead I made it minimalistic. :)

That's the one Funspot made that I was talking about!

It's fictional. They made the artwork up from low-res scans of the flyers and created their own color scheme. It's GREAT.

I'm sure Gary could chime in with better details how they went about it.
 
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