Star Tech Journal
Issue: 1991-March - Vol 13 Issue 1 - Page 10
Tips For Installing
Atari Badlands
SNK's Neo•Geo Kit
Pedal Conversion
Vic Fortenbach
United Artists
Palm Springs, CA
Evan Wessel
Mercury Amusement
Havertown, PA
CONTROL PANEL I
. The Neo•Geo kit comes with a pre assembled
control panel that's supposed to mount into your
existing panel. Good Luck! Cutting out the panel
as directed will weaken the panel and probably
won't fit anyway. Don't even attempt that with a
metal pa11el, by the way. Instead, strip all parts
from their panel and mount it into yours, using
their empty panel as an overlay.
MARQUEE
The LED display windows in the marquee are too
low in many cases and you will have to cut a new
window out with a hole saw. When cutting the
marquee, do not cut the bottom off. Then it
definitely will not line up. All in all, more difficult
to install than a conventional kit.
CoNmOL PANEL/MARQUEE
II
We ordered the kits WITIIOUT the control panel
and used our buttons and joysticks, plus we
blocked up the display holes on the marquee and
mounted the displays next to each start button.
Just like the dedicated game.
Co1N
MmR
To use only one meter for both left player and
right player coin chutes, tie the JAMMA coin
counter outputs together (pins J & 8) and con-
nect to meter, other meter wire is connected to
+Sor+ 12 be sure to use a diode across the meter
wires (1N400x will do the job)
Ken Rankhorn
Gregs Games
McMinnville, Tennessee
PROBLEM
We use the angle drawer System Cabinets for
over one-third of our videos. So when we change
games we just slide out a drawer. Badlands
however has a foot pedal, so we would have to
change foot pedals with the drawer. We found a
way to eliminate the foot pedal.
SOLUTION
You will have to position the steering wheels
more to the left and install two buttons, beside
one another, to the right of the steering wheels,
you cannot use the Atari control panel layout.
Just make your own.
PROCEDURE
When the Atari foot pedal is in the up position, it
is normally open. When it is in the down posi-
tion, it reads 1.2k ohms.
Simply install a 1.2k ohms resistor in line be-
tween one of the wires to the pedal and the
switch contact. One wire to common and one
wire to normally open. With the resistor in
between one of the wires and the switch. All the
player has to do now is push the button to speed
up and maintain speed, or let off to slow down or
stop entirely.
f,IC
T'O
MONO SPEAKER SOUND
Use theJAMMAspeaker outputs (instead of the
on-board connector) and switch the Mono-ste-
reo switch to Mono (switch is located upper right)
r.AMMA4-----...a------~
WIRE+---vVV\i,..._,---
t
J.J.J
CREDIT DISPLAYS
CONCLUSION
You must use the LED credit displays provided
with the kit, since there is no credit display on
screen.
The foot pedal has variable resistance, but most
players either use it wide open or not at all. We
have found no decrease in play with this setup.
,,-...,
Atari Badlands
SNK's Neo•Geo Kit
Pedal Conversion
Vic Fortenbach
United Artists
Palm Springs, CA
Evan Wessel
Mercury Amusement
Havertown, PA
CONTROL PANEL I
. The Neo•Geo kit comes with a pre assembled
control panel that's supposed to mount into your
existing panel. Good Luck! Cutting out the panel
as directed will weaken the panel and probably
won't fit anyway. Don't even attempt that with a
metal pa11el, by the way. Instead, strip all parts
from their panel and mount it into yours, using
their empty panel as an overlay.
MARQUEE
The LED display windows in the marquee are too
low in many cases and you will have to cut a new
window out with a hole saw. When cutting the
marquee, do not cut the bottom off. Then it
definitely will not line up. All in all, more difficult
to install than a conventional kit.
CoNmOL PANEL/MARQUEE
II
We ordered the kits WITIIOUT the control panel
and used our buttons and joysticks, plus we
blocked up the display holes on the marquee and
mounted the displays next to each start button.
Just like the dedicated game.
Co1N
MmR
To use only one meter for both left player and
right player coin chutes, tie the JAMMA coin
counter outputs together (pins J & 8) and con-
nect to meter, other meter wire is connected to
+Sor+ 12 be sure to use a diode across the meter
wires (1N400x will do the job)
Ken Rankhorn
Gregs Games
McMinnville, Tennessee
PROBLEM
We use the angle drawer System Cabinets for
over one-third of our videos. So when we change
games we just slide out a drawer. Badlands
however has a foot pedal, so we would have to
change foot pedals with the drawer. We found a
way to eliminate the foot pedal.
SOLUTION
You will have to position the steering wheels
more to the left and install two buttons, beside
one another, to the right of the steering wheels,
you cannot use the Atari control panel layout.
Just make your own.
PROCEDURE
When the Atari foot pedal is in the up position, it
is normally open. When it is in the down posi-
tion, it reads 1.2k ohms.
Simply install a 1.2k ohms resistor in line be-
tween one of the wires to the pedal and the
switch contact. One wire to common and one
wire to normally open. With the resistor in
between one of the wires and the switch. All the
player has to do now is push the button to speed
up and maintain speed, or let off to slow down or
stop entirely.
f,IC
T'O
MONO SPEAKER SOUND
Use theJAMMAspeaker outputs (instead of the
on-board connector) and switch the Mono-ste-
reo switch to Mono (switch is located upper right)
r.AMMA4-----...a------~
WIRE+---vVV\i,..._,---
t
J.J.J
CREDIT DISPLAYS
CONCLUSION
You must use the LED credit displays provided
with the kit, since there is no credit display on
screen.
The foot pedal has variable resistance, but most
players either use it wide open or not at all. We
have found no decrease in play with this setup.
,,-...,
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