Hello,
I'm going to buy this single sit down arcade cabinet with Sega Le Mans 24 in it. I know it is a Model 3 1.5 game.
I just want to know if it is possible to play Daytona Usa 2 and Sega Rally 2 in it?
These games are also Model 3 games but other revisions.
Can I use the same wiring and hardware to play them if I swap Le Mans 24 with Daytona USA 2?
Thanks for the feedback.
I just picked up a Japanese cabinet of this very game from a friend. Mine is the "special" model, which used a Model 3 drive system with a servo driven force feedback motor and the Ketz wheel. We split a whole twin cabinet together; one had a bad video board with polygons. I was pleasantly surprised how easily this cabinet got through a doorway of only 29-30" width, when my buddy and I stripped down to the monitor frame, base, and seat, then loaded it in a pickup truck with a utility trailer. It required 2-3 people.
If your Lemans is the 'Normal' model (with the Model2/Indy 500 drive system), you may have a problem getting force feedback working in the other Model 3 racers, but they will be (mostly) direct swaps.
For example, Scud Race will run, but you will initially have no music with no DSB sound board present, and the shifter is a 4-gear shifter with 3 microswitches, so you will likely need to install a logic board that emulates the 4 gears. I have assembled one myself (there are boards online you can build on your own), and built a custom wiring harness to the cab that allows the two pins from the shifter to be converted to 4 gears in Scud Race, without cutting any of the cabinet's internal wiring (I did have to hack into the power supply to "power" it though)
If yours is the Special model with Model 3 drive board, then you're in luck with regards to Daytona 2. FFB works very well in the cab. I was able to hack the power supply (I didn't WANT to do this but AMP UP connectors are generally obsolete in US and expensive) and also get full sound working with the DSB2 sound board, but I did have to do some mixing to the connectors by changing the pins using depinning tweezers with cab wiring still intact.
Sega Rally 2 uses a different eeprom for force feedback and I've heard it wasn't fun to play with the Scud Race eeprom, but I've read you can replace the chip or erase it and burn the SR2 drive board eeprom and still have FFB in all other Model 3 racers. I do not own a Sega Rally 2 but it has been on my list of ones to get.
With a cabinet like this, you have around 6 or 7 different games that you can enjoy, especially by doing the aforementioned mods. I have one fully populated Model 3 cage and swap all my driving game motherboards into the same cage. All I do basically is change out two connectors for the shifter. It's my first arcade cabinet and been my absolute pride and joy after collecting Model 2, 3 and Naomi boards/carts for quite some time.
Which Lemans do you own?