what games can be easily 'morphed' into other games?

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what games can be easily 'morphed' into other games?

I'm not talking about chopping up the cab, I'm talking about examples like:

1. T2 can easily be made into another game with a board swap (the name of the other game eludes me at the moment)

2. alot of MCR games share the same boards- a ROM swap and a control panel swap and... you have yerself a new game mister.

3. Ms. Pac Man- pull the daughter board and whaddaya got? REGULAR Pac Man.

What others fall under this category of multigaming goodness (and I'm not talkin 48 in 1 crap)?
 
I'm not talking about chopping up the cab, I'm talking about examples like:

3. Ms. Pac Man- pull the daughter board and whaddaya got? REGULAR Pac Man.

What others fall under this category of multigaming goodness (and I'm not talkin 48 in 1 crap)?


aren't the roms different also??
 
You will need to swap the ROMs from Pac to Ms Pac. The Z80 comes off of the daughter board and gets installed on the main board.


PP and PPII are swapable I believe.
 
i can't remember if it's a straight swap, but pac and galaxian are similar.

mario bros from converted DK's are fairly straightforward, just pull the jumper harness off and plug in the DK board.

what about wizard of wor and gorf? same hardware, are those straight swappable?
 
DK - DK jr
DK 3 - DK - DK jr
Smash TV - Total Carnage
Cheyenne - crossbow - chiller
Champ sprint - paperboy (slight harness modification)
elevator action - jungle king/jungle hunt
venture - pepper II
zaxxon - congo bongo
most MCR game boards can be tested in other cabs to see if they boot but can not be played due to difference in control pin outs. (tron - spy hunter - tapper - satans hollow)
super cobra - the end
gauntlet - gauntlet II
 
asteroids and asteroids deluxe. The boards are swappable. You have to change a few pins in the cp harness as well.
 
Atari System 1, brother VG. MM, Road Blasters, Indiana Jones, Road Runner, Peter Packrat. But since it was designed that way, maybe that's not what you meant.

Maybe Tempest to Major Havoc? But that's a kit, so after that every kit game counts. :-(

Star Wars > ESB ?
 
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Atari System 1, brother. but since it was designed that way, maybe that's not what you meant.

The control panels must also swap for the game to play. Although it's possible TOD, peter pack rat and road runner might all be playable (to some degree) with cp's from the other games.
 
lets see
mcr - kick or kickman plays fine in a tron, however the screen is backwards as the roms are set up for a mirror.
Satan's hollow plays in tron as well, but you lose the shields.
All of the mcr2 and 3 games will boot in nearly any other mcr cab, but most likely won't play due to control panel/interface differences.
 
Namco made a kit to turn operation wolf/thunder cabs into steel gunner....
Nintendo made a kit to put a vs in a Midway.
SNK made a kit to turn old Merit bartops into Neo-Geo machines.
 
i know Space Gun and Mechanized Attack are the same.

Good to know. Had no idea. Hmm. Space Gun has a pedal. Never saw SG before. MA is SNK and SG is Taito. "I don't know, Yogi". :)

Has anyone done the swap of MA to SG?

Great thread!
 
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