Question about Leland Quarterback Cocktail (Cabaret)

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Question about Leland Quarterback Cocktail (Cabaret)

Picked up a cocktail Leland Quarterback with a bad board, and bought a board to replace it with... can somebody who's got the cocktail let me know, is the game play slightly different?

Reason I ask is because the second springstick doesn't work, but I think it's because the upright only had 1 (you swapped sides during gameplay). Does the cocktail not work like that? Anybody know?

I can see there's two sets of roms in MAME, so maybe it's a rom swap?
 
You are correct about the upright only having one stick.

I dont think there are dipswitches on this game. I think you enter the adjustments menu by pressing the service button and then the red button. There might be a setting in that menu?

Are you sure it needed a Quarterback board? Maybe it used John Elway QB or All American QB. But I have no idea on any of that.

Good luck.
 
Yeah, no dipswitches. I can't get into the service menu either... I've seen that menu on like Off Road, but no matter how I press the credit button and the buttons on the control panel I can't seem to get in.

I found an old picture of a Quarterback PCB on Quarterarcade that says "QB Coc" on the roms, so I'm thinking there may be two different board sets.

Can somebody who has all the MAME stuff try pulling both rom sets up and see if it appears to be any different?

I don't think it original had team quarterback, there's no John Elway stuff on the titling, so I think it came out with just a quarterback board before Team was released.
 
Oh and if anybody CAN pull it up in MAME, the difference would be this:

In the upright, when you lose the ball, it tells you on screen to switch sides. It means to physically move to the second player side (one side always plays defense, the other side always plays offense, the side with the springstick).

On the cocktail, my theory is in a two player game, it never tells you to swap sides (since you're sitting down), since both sides have a springstick.

It's labeled Quarterback Rom set 1, and quarterback Rom set 2, but doesn't say what the difference is.
 
Cool game, I always wanted to play one of these.

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Thats strange, I had a Quarterback before I got my All american QB, and I know thats how you enter the service menu. I wonder why yours isnt working.

Really nice looking cabinet you got though!

Yeah, no dipswitches. I can't get into the service menu either... I've seen that menu on like Off Road, but no matter how I press the credit button and the buttons on the control panel I can't seem to get in.

I found an old picture of a Quarterback PCB on Quarterarcade that says "QB Coc" on the roms, so I'm thinking there may be two different board sets.

Can somebody who has all the MAME stuff try pulling both rom sets up and see if it appears to be any different?

I don't think it original had team quarterback, there's no John Elway stuff on the titling, so I think it came out with just a quarterback board before Team was released.
 
I figured out how to get in the service menu,... you hold 1 player start, then press test, then let go of both. There's no cocktail option though... I guess when I get time I'll burn the other roms and see what that does.
 
Update on this: Both of the MAME rom sets are for the upright... also Team Challenge won't work in this cabinet because Team Challenge is set up for 4 players... you can play it in a two player cabinet but it's not ideal.

Anybody have the cocktail roms, or a cocktail board?
 
The cocktails are pretty rare from what I know, so good luck, I mean that in a nice way :)

Whats the negative to using a John Elway QB or All American Qb board in it?
I would think you could wire it up and it would be good, if not better?

Update on this: Both of the MAME rom sets are for the upright... also Team Challenge won't work in this cabinet because Team Challenge is set up for 4 players... you can play it in a two player cabinet but it's not ideal.

Anybody have the cocktail roms, or a cocktail board?
 
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I'll probably have to go that way, but the way it looks to me, if you put a team q.b. board in it, the whole game it's going to be prompting you to play as a team, but you can't because of the way the cabinets wired. On team q.b. (I think) you have a quarterback and a halfback on each side, so it'd either be wired to play two player games on the same team all the time, or play two player games without the halfback each time.

So it'd kinda be like putting a 4 player teenage mutant Ninja Turtles board in a 2 player game... and then nobody can ever be Donatello or Raphael. It works but it's kind of 'uh'
 
I might be reading it wrong, but i think you are mistaken here.

If you got a 4 player QB game, and wired it up on your cabinet so that player 1 was a QB and player 2 was a QB, Thats how your game should be.

On your cabinet there is never a running back.

So I guess what you would do is have player 1 as player one, and player 3 as player 2.
(because player 2 on a 4ply cab is the RB)

Your cabinet is never (unless im wrong) a 2vcomputer game, so it should always be 1v2.

Am i missing something?

I'll probably have to go that way, but the way it looks to me, if you put a team q.b. board in it, the whole game it's going to be prompting you to play as a team, but you can't because of the way the cabinets wired. On team q.b. (I think) you have a quarterback and a halfback on each side, so it'd either be wired to play two player games on the same team all the time, or play two player games without the halfback each time.

So it'd kinda be like putting a 4 player teenage mutant Ninja Turtles board in a 2 player game... and then nobody can ever be Donatello or Raphael. It works but it's kind of 'uh'
 
I think it could be wired that way, but I'm just saying it would still be a 4 player game in a 2 player cabinet. I'd much rather have it playing the right board than the wrong board... I may not have a choice though.
 
I understand, Good luck tracking it down. Let me know if you ever find the right board/roms.


I think it could be wired that way, but I'm just saying it would still be a 4 player game in a 2 player cabinet. I'd much rather have it playing the right board than the wrong board... I may not have a choice though.
 
So here's a question: how does one flip the control panel on these up? There don't seem to be accessible latches and I'm debating removing the brackets.....
 
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