Rotary Multigame?

Agreed. If I had room I would definitely do that. Instead, I just swap out kits in my Jamma cab when the rotary bug hits. Anyway...

Mechanical rotary games (LS-30 or other)
Bermuda Triangle
Downtown
Gondomania
Guerilla War
Heavy Barrel
Ikari Warriors
Victory Road
Ikari III (horizontal)
Midnight Resistance (horizontal)
SAR Search and Rescue
Time Soldiers
TNK III

Optical rotary games (Loop-24 or other)
Note – not sure, but I've heard the Cal 50 Loop-24's will not work with TD Fever and vice-versa)
Caliber 50
Touchdown Fever
Touchdown Fever II

Oh, and I think both GGG and Ultimarc have rotary interfaces. Here's Ultimarcs: http://www.ultimarc.com/rotary.html

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Yes this would be awesome. I have thought about it myself. LOVE Midnight Resistance, Heavy Barrel and Ikari! :)
 
What about TopGunner - doesn't it have the option of using a rotary stick? Which one does it use?
 
This has been thrown around a bunch of times. I planned to try and make a harness, but just never got around to it. I have Heavy Barrel, Time Soldiers and Gondomania that I swap in and out of my rotary cab. MAME would probably be a simple solution.
 
Mechanical rotary games (LS-30 or other)
Bermuda Triangle
Downtown
Gondomania
Guerilla War
Heavy Barrel
Ikari Warriors
Victory Road
Ikari III (horizontal)
Midnight Resistance (horizontal)
SAR Search and Rescue
Time Soldiers
TNK III

Add "World Wars" (alternate name for Bermuda Triangle).
Is "Sky Soldiers" LS-30?
Also worth noting that Ikari III requires one more button than most (all?) of the rest of them.

Also, FWIW, getting back to the OP: They actually aren't "8-way" sticks. They are technically 12-way rotary switches. The games typically just interpret the change in input position, and display the player in one of 8 orientations, creating the illusion of an 8-way switch.

Try it yourself, it takes 12 clicks to fully rotate. There are also 13 pins on the connector, ground and one for each of 12 positions.

In any case, yes a multi would be very cool. However, the hardware varies pretty widely. There may be some pairs that might be nearly identical, and thus ripe for multi-game. For example Ikari Warriors and Victory Road; I'm not sure if there's anything different in the JAMMA versions aside from the ROMs. I'll take a closer look...
 
Couldn't you have a rotary harness from each board that comes together at each joystick and use a multi jamma switcher for the pcbs?
 
What about TopGunner - doesn't it have the option of using a rotary stick? Which one does it use?

From what I read, the original Top Gunner doesn't, but there's a bootleg that does; and the bootleg is LS-30.
 
They actually aren't "8-way" sticks. They are technically 12-way rotary switches. The games typically just interpret the change in input position, and display the player in one of 8 orientations, creating the illusion of an 8-way switch.

They are 8-way sticks. You can use them as you would any old 8-way stick. They just have the addition of the rotary component. So 8-way for movement, and 12 way for orientation (as you mentioned).

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From what I read, the original Top Gunner doesn't, but there's a bootleg that does; and the bootleg is LS-30.

Ah, thats where my confusion comes from. Played TG a lot BITD and occasionally would come across a machine that was different (no rotary!) I think the rotary made the game better, IIRC.

One of these days I'll pick up a set of LS-30s/etc and play Heavy Barrel all the way through. I can't remember if we ever made it all the way through BITD!
 
One of these days I'll pick up a set of LS-30s/etc and play Heavy Barrel all the way through. I can't remember if we ever made it all the way through BITD!

I have LS-30's in my machine, but I have an extra set of the Data East rotary sticks if you want them- cheap too!
 
They are 8-way sticks. You can use them as you would any old 8-way stick. They just have the addition of the rotary component. So 8-way for movement, and 12 way for orientation (as you mentioned).

Good point. Thanks for the clarification.

I read "8-way rotary" all together, and interpreted the OP as implying that the rotary was 8 directional.
 
I have LS-30's in my machine, but I have an extra set of the Data East rotary sticks if you want them- cheap too!

Did Data East also make rotary sticks? I've seen the SNK LS-30, and Wico branded LS-30-compatible sticks.
 
Did Data East also make rotary sticks? I've seen the SNK LS-30, and Wico branded LS-30-compatible sticks.

Here they are- they have the DE logo on them:

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I'd love to play Victory Road and Midnight Resistance the proper way again. Those games were so fun!
 
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