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Ok, I know SNK makes rotary joysticks but there is also other on SNK games like Heated Barrell that take a LS-30 Rotary and Touchdown Fever takes LS-40. What is the difference and can you swap these sticks around> I want to put a SNK into a Heated Barrell. Can I do this?
 
Do you mean Heavy Barrel? If so, yes, the LS-30's will work with Heavy Barrel, Time Soldiers, Ikari Warriors and others.

The Touchdown Fever sticks are different (optical rotary vs. the mechanical LS-30 rotary). There is also another kind of optical rotary stick (Loop-24) that is used for Caliber .50
 
Yes, I meant Heavy Barrel by Data East. What are the dedicated SNK rotary joysticks called? L-30?
 
I want to put a SNK into a Heated Barrell. Can I do this?

SNK LS-30 rotary joysticks work fine with Heavy Barrel. I know this because I have a Heavy Barrell PCB for my Ikari Warriors cabinet (which has LS-30 sticks), and it works.

Others I also have (and also work with the SNK LS-30s):
Ikari Warriors
Victory Road
Guerilla War
Time Soldiers

Others I don't have, but I think will work with the LS-30s:
TNK III (any one have one of these to sell me?)
Gondomania
World Wars
DownTown
SAR: Search and Rescue
 
SNK LS-30 rotary joysticks work fine with Heavy Barrel. I know this because I have a Heavy Barrell PCB for my Ikari Warriors cabinet (which has LS-30 sticks), and it works.

Others I also have (and also work with the SNK LS-30s):
Ikari Warriors
Victory Road
Guerilla War
Time Soldiers

Others I don't have, but I think will work with the LS-30s:
TNK III (any one have one of these to sell me?)
Gondomania
World Wars
DownTown
SAR: Search and Rescue

Thanks got a dedicated Victory Road (really weird voices in the game) that I have ready for Time soldiers too. And knew some of these others like Ikari warriors/Heavy Barrell but thanks for the others mentioned because they will help me in my future overspending!

Do you have all of them or just one dedicated?

Wondering if anyone will ever do a Jamma 10 or less in one with all these titles??
 
search SNK on after looking up one of these titles within arcade machine lookup section, might find some others?? keep in mind it's jamma so you can use a s-ton of other titles. have a 60 in 1 for the last few days in mine currently, kind of pain with the rotating sticks with pacman and others but it works fine too.
 
Do you have all of them or just one dedicated?

Wondering if anyone will ever do a Jamma 10 or less in one with all these titles??

I only have 1 cabinet. I swap in different PCBs from time to time. To tell you the truth, the only ones I really enjoy are Ikari & Victory Road.

You mean set up a JAMMA-switcher to allow switching between these PCBs? Or a single PCB with multiple titles? Either would be challenging. The multi-JAMMA approach would require dealing with the two 13-conductor cables for the rotary sticks. The single PCB is hard because the games, while using the same sticks, run on VERY different hardware. If anyone ever made a multi-game for these, it would probably be a sucky MAME-emulated type thing.
 
here's another i found that in theory should work:

Bermuda Triangle (seems interesting)

EDIT (be mindful when picking the right machine/boards when swapping)
 
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I only have 1 cabinet. I swap in different PCBs from time to time. To tell you the truth, the only ones I really enjoy are Ikari & Victory Road.

You mean set up a JAMMA-switcher to allow switching between these PCBs? Or a single PCB with multiple titles? Either would be challenging. The multi-JAMMA approach would require dealing with the two 13-conductor cables for the rotary sticks. The single PCB is hard because the games, while using the same sticks, run on VERY different hardware. If anyone ever made a multi-game for these, it would probably be a sucky MAME-emulated type thing.


Yeah the single PCB w/mult titles that include all the rotating sticks or maybe a couple of other nice vertical jamma titles (non rotating stick ones). maybe a scrolling fighter special with people and plane/ship based. I think that could be a good seller if feasible (not sure about all the logistics) Yeah I found some issues already with the 60 in 1's. mainly sound issues but some ghosting of graphics from time to time.

Not familiar with a Jamma switcher? is this a something built into boards or a connector you can buy. Anything to save me time with switching boards or leaving multiple in at one time would be pretty cool.

me kinda noob must research more!
 
Not familiar with a Jamma switcher? is this a something built into boards or a connector you can buy. Anything to save me time with switching boards or leaving multiple in at one time would be pretty cool.

There are at least two that I'm aware of. They're add'l boards, into which multiple JAMMA games are connected. It handles switching the connections to your cabinet's harness. Note that I do not own either of these, nor have I ever actually used them (I just know they exist):

http://www.multigame.com/jamma.html
http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=DBLJAMMA

There are probably reviews of them on the KLOV forums; I've never searched. Of course, neither will handle the 13-pin rotary stick connectors of the subject games; but it might be possible to create a homebrew splitter that would allow each stick to be connected to multiple PCBs at the same time.

Anyhow, those were designed mainly for plain-vanilla JAMMA PCBs. Another concern I'd have about that type of setup would be the potential need for monitor adjustments when switching games. Almost every time I've ever switched games of any sort in any cabinet, some monitor adjustment seems to be needed (size, centering, brightness, etc.) If you can find a happy compromise, or don't mind making the adjustments every switch, I guess it's no problem.
 
here's another i found that in theory should work:

Bermuda Triangle (seems interesting)

EDIT (be mindful when picking the right machine/boards when swapping)

Thanks. Not sure how Bermuda Triangle missed getting into my post; it's on my list :)

Another that I once read uses LS-30 sticks, but I've been unable to verify, is Sky Soldiers.

And one that I'm pretty such uses the LS-30 sticks, but has a horizontal monitor, is Midnight Resistance.
 
Here's a link to one member's site that had every rotary game: http://www.mn-rocketry.net/misc/arcade/ls30/ls30

The best are Ikari Warriors, Heavy Barrel, Time Soldiers and Gondomania. Ikari Warriors has two different board types- the original is not JAMMA. I'm still looking for an Ikari JAMMA board.

I plan to make a harness to deal with the rotary operation and then use a JAMMA switcher, but that has yet to happen.

I currently switch between Heavy Barrel and Time Soldiers. Time Soldiers currently occupies my cab. I need to get my custom cpo printed too.

heavybarrel+007.jpg
 
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