What games easily work in a Gravitar cab

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I will have a Gravitar soon , yes dedicated upright , cannot wait

A few Questions ,

Without any real fuss what other Color xy games fit in without altering the power supply board ?.

And either use the same buttons , or can have just a control panel change ?

Games i think go close are ,

Blackwidow , Tempest ,

Games i would like to put in there as well would be ,

Quantum , Major havoc .

I`m not saying i wont buy another Color XY cab , but with just a Marquee change , a Pcb swap or just a control panel shuffle , i can enjoy alot of these ultra classics .

Calling Dr. Color XY , are you there master ?
 
The omnly thing that I think would work easily is Space Duel. Even then you'd need a harness to go from the Space Duel CP to Gravitar cabinet wiring. Check with KStillin, I got a harness to go from SD wiring to Gravitar CP, so maybe he could make one to go the other way around?

Chris
 
The omnly thing that I think would work easily is Space Duel. Even then you'd need a harness to go from the Space Duel CP to Gravitar cabinet wiring. Check with KStillin, I got a harness to go from SD wiring to Gravitar CP, so maybe he could make one to go the other way around?

Chris

you must be up real early chris ?
 
Black Widow uses the same harness as Gravitar. All you would need to do is swap the board and control panel.
 
Space Duel, Black Widow and Gravitar share the same cabinet but making a Gravitar INTO a BW is not so easy IMO. Both need new control panel setups and new CP harnesses. Quantum is vertical, so unless you do some wire hacking, that needs to be its' own dedicated cab or played in a version of mame that will turn the game to horzontal (the vectormame windows beta DOES NOT turn vertical games, you would have to turn the whole monitor to play Tempest and Quantum properly in vmame32.)
IMO, a Gravitar cabinet should play Gravitar only. If you did a "multivector", many games can be played with the single set of push button controls that Gravitar offers, without hacking a CP or buying a "MV CP". Asteroids, AD, single player versions of Armor Attack, Ripoff, SD, Solar Quest and Omega Race with buttons instead of a spinner. The vmame supports a SD rom that offers a single player version of the game which is pretty cool. Good Luck!
 
Black Widow uses the same harness as Gravitar. All you would need to do is swap the board and control panel.


to convert gravitar into a black widow, you also need to add 4 wires to the harnes along with the control panel.

Space duel would be a much better base to work from..
 
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