Space Duel Conversion to Black Widow

Black Matrix

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Hey all,
Can you convert a Space Duel cabinet to Black widow. I've seen pics of the dedicated BWs and they all have that speaker at the top and bottom of the cab. I know the SDs have the 4 speakers and I wasn't really familiar with the SD system. So can a BW board be dropped into a SD and if so, will it use all 4 speakers. Also, is the pinouts on the two fairly similar. I recall reading that BW and Gravitar are the similar, and I think I heard that Major Havok and Quantum were as well. So anyone do this conversion before or know whats involved. I may have an abundance of SDs in the very near future.
 
Black Widow and Gravitar are the same PCB with different ROMs installed. IIRC, Space Duel has a similar pinout to that PCB. I couldn't tell you about the speakers, though.
 
Yep you can do it. I used to run Space Duel, Gravitar and Black Widow in my Space Duel. I didn't even need to hack the harness. You can make an adapter for Gravitar, but as I recall, you have to run a few wires to the edge connector for BW, as the pinout of the finger board is different. Grab yourself some schematics and take a look. Oh... and the sound will come out of all four speakers. The AR board from the Space Duel will work and the sound is just routed to all four speakers.
 
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