Will a star castle board work in Armor attack?

blackdogmachine

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Does anyone know if you can put a star castle board in a armor attack cab? and will it work? I have a star castle screen overlay. If so do I need to change CP to make it work or can you just use player 1 or something. Board connectors look the same.
I have a working armor attack and have a star castle board, CP and marquee on the way. I also have a star castle harness in my stash.
 
this info was taken from here

http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=info&page=CineHistV2-0.txt


Quoted:
"TECH NOTE: All the BW vector games used similar hardware. So for the most
part, all the Cinematronics boards are interchangeable, except for the
control panel and the sound boards which have POTS on vs. off the board!!"


and,

"so you can use a single cabinet to test any Cinematronics board set,
but you can't play the game because the control panel is wired only for
that one particular game."

Sounds like you need a control panel, mainboard and a soundboard in order to play Starcastle on your armor attack. Not sure if you would have to use that starcastle wiring harness though.
 
If they are interchangable,which I dont know,just make sure that Star castle board works or it will fry your monitor, I have done it.
 
The control panels are not wired the same.
Looking at the pinouts for the 2 games shows some important differences.

For example:

AA - p12 = pl1 left
SC - p12 = fire

AA - p10 = not used
SC - p10 = forward

AA - p1 = player 1 start
SC - p1 = not used
 
Yes, the board will work as I have swapped Armor Attack and Rip Off boards into my Star Castle cabinet without issue other than having to make adjusts to the screen size. When I use the word board I am referring to both the logic board and sound board. The controls I imagine would work but the buttons would most likely not be in ideal locations but that is a guess on my part as I swap the Star Castle CP with an armor attack CP to play Armor Attack and Rip Off.
 
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ok, good info. I will see if the guy im getting the parts from also has the sound board. I do have a harness and getting complete cp so I should be good to go.
 
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