Red Tent Jamma Setup

Torin

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Just got a Red Tent and it has been converted to jamma and has TMNT installed. It's pretty cool to play 4 player TMNT on it but I want to convert it back to original Nintendo vs.

What would be the easiest way to do this?

1. Get a harness and completely re-wire?

2. Is there a Jamma to Nintendo Vs. adaptor that works for a dual system?

Something else, perhaps?

It's a pretty damn cool machine that has been in a dentists office for years. Just not a huge TMNT fan.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Torin
 
Expensive deconversion. The red tent is cool and a curse, you'll never resell it for what it costs to restore.
 
Yeah, it will be expensive but not too much if I can find out if there is a Jamma to Nintendo Vs adaptor that can work with a red tent and play both sides.

Anyone know?

I'm not worried about re-sale value. I got the red tent for under 100.00 and it is working 100%. It just has a jamma setup and I'd like to know what my options are and what others would do.
 
I don't see it costing too much to get a red tent wiring harness ($20-50). I would guess that the transformer/iso is still there ($15-35). The game power supply might even be the same or would still work for a VS system ($20-35).

Did they change out the controllers or anything like that? The Vs game boards are not usually crazy priced depending on the game you want ($30-200). And if you sell the TNMT conversion parts that would bring some of the money to get it back to a VS.

Seems like there are rashes of simple red tent parts that happen fairly normally around here. And don't forget about ebay. Though ebay prices seem to always be the highest.

Good find. Pending on the screen's burn, they are easily worth the $100 you paid.

Post some images.
 
I don't see it costing too much to get a red tent wiring harness ($20-50). I would guess that the transformer/iso is still there ($15-35). The game power supply might even be the same or would still work for a VS system ($20-35).

Did they change out the controllers or anything like that? The Vs game boards are not usually crazy priced depending on the game you want ($30-200). And if you sell the TNMT conversion parts that would bring some of the money to get it back to a VS.

Seems like there are rashes of simple red tent parts that happen fairly normally around here. And don't forget about ebay. Though ebay prices seem to always be the highest.

Good find. Pending on the screen's burn, they are easily worth the $100 you paid.

Post some images.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I'll need the wiring harness. The ISO is still there and I believe the PS is still there but I don't have a key to the access door. There is a switcher installed for the jamma setup. I have an upright Vs cabinet and so I have a few of the boards already. One chassis needs to be rebuilt. I pulled that monitor already. Screen burn is there but not outrageous. The controls (sticks) are intact but I will need to re-do the control panel artwork. The hardest to find and most expensive part might be that they switched out all the nintendo buttons for crappy newer ones.

All in all, I think I got a good deal. I just have a lot of rewiring to do.
 
i would take some finger boards from bob roberts, cut them down to fit the versus harness, and split it off into a jamma or two jamma harness, i would not cut, mame, rewire a red tent, unless some person had already destroyed it.

my 3 cents.
 
KI4SWY, I think this red tent has already been JAMMAified and rewired. So to deconvert it, really the easiest course would be to rewire it back with a Nintendo Vs. harness. What I am wondering is where they put the inverter for the two monitors and to split the video to the two so both sides see the action.

This is an interesting conversion, but I don't think it would be awful to deconvert back. That being said, I would agree that you are probably going to pay more to restore it than you could ever resell it for (counting in your initial proceeds in). That is unless the JAMMA board was Turtles in Time, in which case selling that board will pay for the entire Red Tent :)
 
I've completely restored this back to a Nintendo Red Tent. Bought a harness and re-wired the cab. The monitors are XM-1801's and so there is an inverter switch right on the chassis. No inverter board! Totally easy. I modified the harness to plug into the switcher that had been installed for the TMNT. Everything else was plug and play as the person who did the jamma conversion kept all the original connectors going to the switches, control panels, speakers etc. Pretty slick actually as far as conversions go. It is nice having it back to its original form but having TMNT or The Simpsons in there is cool as well. I kept the old harness just in case but I doubt it will ever happen.

Torin
 
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