Pacland Upside down Picture

Ironmike20

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I just got my namco jamma adapter in the mail today, so I wanted to try out my never tested pacland board. The game plays fine, just upside down lol. I figured it was some cocktail setting or something. I checked the dip switch information online, but none of the switches seem to apply to fixing the screen. I even played around with a few of the switches, but nothing helped. I'm sure it's something stupid, I really wish I was more knowledgeable about these things. I'm trying to get back into the hobby, so far I keep running into trouble with a lot of my old boards. I did a bunch of searches, it seems like a lot of you have this pacland, but no one mentioned this issue.
 
There was no standard until Jamma and many vertical games were programmed upside down, I guess some horizontal games may have been as well?

Anyway, you can swap the pic around by flipping you horizontal and vertical yoke connectors on the monitor chassis...
 
Thank you for your help guys. I read bob roberts page on yoke swapping. I doesn't sound too difficult, but it might become annoying going back and forth with it. I only have one cabinet, so it's not gonna be a dedicated Pacland. The problem is that it's my girlfriends favorite game. Bob mentions on his page that there is a "switch" that you can install. Do u know if any place online sells a switch I can install, or if I'd be able to buy one off anyone on the forum?
 
You could rig up a toggle switch and relays to do it. Thats how I would do it if I were planning on changing it back and forth.
 
You could rig up a toggle switch and relays to do it. Thats how I would do it if I were planning on changing it back and forth.

That would work, but it would be easier (skill level wise) just to make a mini connector cable that did the swap. So you just put the cable in-between the monitor chassis and the game board to flip the signals when you swap the board in.

-VJ
 
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