Q*Bert's Qubes

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I was at Hershey Park yesterday and saw a Q*Bert's Qubes machine in one of their arcades. I noticed that the cabinet was a Q*Bert cabinet. Was this game simply a conversion kit kinda like Mrs. Pac-man from a Pac-man? If so, does any one have these available? I know someone was selling a multi-Q*bert on here at one point. Is it on there?
 
I was at Hershey Park yesterday and saw a Q*Bert's Qubes machine in one of their arcades. I noticed that the cabinet was a Q*Bert cabinet. Was this game simply a conversion kit kinda like Mrs. Pac-man from a Pac-man? If so, does any one have these available? I know someone was selling a multi-Q*bert on here at one point. Is it on there?

I could be wrong, but I don't believe Ms Pac was sold as a conversion kit. I think you actually had to buy a full machine from Midway. That's probably why there were so many Pac-Man hacks and conversion kits for Pac-Man cabs sold. I guess Midway finally got smart by the time they came out with Pac-Man Plus and Jr Pac-Man and sold those as conversion kits ;)
 
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To the best of my knowledge, all Q*Berts Qubes were conversions from Q*Bert cabs. I've never heard of a factory Qubes.

Kyle :cool:
 
This was definitley a Q*bert cabinet since someone had torn part a piece of the control panel art off and I could see Q*bert instuctions underneath. According to the folks operating the arcade the machine, along with it's many classic brethren, had been on site since it left the factory.
 
At one point, I had a converted Qbert Quebes. It still had the lower overlay from Qbert Quebes. I had plans to convert it back to Qbert but I had trouble finding a sound board and traded it off as a project.
 

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Same deal as what happened with midway and mappy cabs..they did factory conversion of mappy to Jr pac...even left the original mappy art underneath and just slapped on new jr pac art over top....My jr pac has the mappy art underneath..if you look closely from right angle you can see it under right light...

I have Qberts Qubes and the Qbert art is still underneath...seems they just took existing Qbert cabs and did the conversion at factory. The marquee has the serial number directly on corner of marquee to match the serial number sticker on back of machine..so its factory but just an existing Qbert cab...guess they used what they had and didn't waste anything...why build different cab..just design for cabs you already had surplus of..
 
The Qubes PCB is a modified Qbert PCB. You can convert a Qbert PCB to Qubes fairly easily and don't even need the daughterboard with ribbon cables that always fails over time. The main board conversion is documented in the Qubes manual. Instead of using the daughterboard with eight 2764s, just concatenate the foreground rom files into four 27128s and plug them into the main board. I always remove that daughterboard on any qubes PCB that I repair because it always fails or will fail over time and use the 27128s instead. So if you want to build a Qubes - go for it.

Bill
 
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