trying to use shuuz in a rampart cabinet.

mrbill2084

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I picked up a shuuz and I wanted to use it in my 3 player rampart cabinet. Plugged it in and it mostly works.. I was hoping it would work no hassle since both are atari games from 1990. It tries to work on the left player trackball, but the wiring is wrong.

After looking into the wiring, I think its 2 pins off. pins 19 and 20 would need to be flipped..

I would think building a jamma adapter would be the better way to go. I guess you could make a molex adapter for the trackball. Just looking for some options..

http://www.crazykong.com/pins/Rampart.pin.txt
file:///C:/Users/BILLES~1/AppData/Local/Temp/Shuuz.pin-1.txt

SHUUZ
PARTS SIDE
------------
18 TBALL X DIR
19 TBALL Y DIR
20 TBALL X CLK
21 TBALL Y CLK

rampart 3 player
Parts Side
---------------
18 L X Dir
19 L X Clk
20 L Y Dir
21 L Y Clk
 
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Do you plan to swap back and forth between games often? If so I would build an inline adaptor at the trackball connector itself and plug it in whenever you swap to the Shuuz board. The parts are pretty cheap since it is just crimp connections, and you don't permanently alter the Rampart.
 
Do you plan to swap back and forth between games often? If so I would build an inline adaptor at the trackball connector itself and plug it in whenever you swap to the Shuuz board. The parts are pretty cheap since it is just crimp connections, and you don't permanently alter the Rampart.

the plan is to swap it occasionally. I do not want to alter the rampart in any way. I was thinking of doing it the way you suggessted, but it would be more long term hassle to get into the panel to swap the inline adapter.

The easiest way would be to cut the traces on the pcb and remap it that way, or cut the 2 wires in the harness and swap them with a quick disconnects, but I don't want to do those either..
 
thought I would bump a really old thread rather than start a new one..


I was looking through some trackballs and I found a 3" one with screened pcbs on it that said something like '90 shuuz atari games. Did Atari order a custom trackball for shuuz? The optical boards are much larger and they have jumpers on them. The pcb works with a 60 in 1.

I will add pics in a bit. I was just a little curious and thought to ask about it.
 
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