chopperthedog
Well-known member
When I did my run of control panels I got to meet some cool folks in the Vectrex community and was presented with the opportunity to purchase the elusive VecFever cart. The cart is pretty damn slick with not only the games that the dev programmed and packaged on the cart, it also has high score tables for all the original GCE games and some homebrews.
Got to know the cart dev a little and he's also into coin op as well. He showed me a sweet defender cab he obtained in Germany with a stainless steel coin door, all cab art was perfect, but the cab was jamma converted, so marquee, bezel were gone and the control panel was completely butchered. I led on like I had some parts to send him, but I actually had enough parts from 4 shit panels to make a complete original defender control panel and sent it off to him for free as a surprise. He was genuinely blown away and I feel good that that panel will be mated with a cab and used again. Plus I doubt he would've ever been able to locate parts like that in Germany. So I racked up some good coin op karma points there.
About 4 months ago some videos popped up on youtube showing off mame vector games being displayed on a vectrex, what tha, who tha, how tha...... I thought this cart was a /mic drop when I first got it and now this, wow. Sold some overlays recently to him and sent out a fat pack for him and he sends me an email with some bread crumbs in it on how to upgrade my cart to have the serial port, ummmm fuck yeah.
Cut a clean slot in my cart and added the uart pcb to my cart, loaded his special version of mame and started a game and boom it launches on the Vectrex. The most impressive part is you use the Vectrex controller to play the games, control commands are sent from the cart to mame. I've got mame set up on a windows tablet and bluetooth can speaker with the mgalaxy front end and when a game is started it launches behind the front end screen and when you quit the game control of the front end is put back in focus. I also came up with custom images that have the control scheme for each game next to the screen shot.
Very impressive piece of hardware. Normally I'm years late to the party on cool stuff like this, but the stars lined up for me perfectly on this one.
good day.
Got to know the cart dev a little and he's also into coin op as well. He showed me a sweet defender cab he obtained in Germany with a stainless steel coin door, all cab art was perfect, but the cab was jamma converted, so marquee, bezel were gone and the control panel was completely butchered. I led on like I had some parts to send him, but I actually had enough parts from 4 shit panels to make a complete original defender control panel and sent it off to him for free as a surprise. He was genuinely blown away and I feel good that that panel will be mated with a cab and used again. Plus I doubt he would've ever been able to locate parts like that in Germany. So I racked up some good coin op karma points there.
About 4 months ago some videos popped up on youtube showing off mame vector games being displayed on a vectrex, what tha, who tha, how tha...... I thought this cart was a /mic drop when I first got it and now this, wow. Sold some overlays recently to him and sent out a fat pack for him and he sends me an email with some bread crumbs in it on how to upgrade my cart to have the serial port, ummmm fuck yeah.
Cut a clean slot in my cart and added the uart pcb to my cart, loaded his special version of mame and started a game and boom it launches on the Vectrex. The most impressive part is you use the Vectrex controller to play the games, control commands are sent from the cart to mame. I've got mame set up on a windows tablet and bluetooth can speaker with the mgalaxy front end and when a game is started it launches behind the front end screen and when you quit the game control of the front end is put back in focus. I also came up with custom images that have the control scheme for each game next to the screen shot.
Very impressive piece of hardware. Normally I'm years late to the party on cool stuff like this, but the stars lined up for me perfectly on this one.
good day.
