Jamma conversion?

[jamma newbie]

Hey Everyone,
i just acquired a 1988 Jamma Arcade Cabinet with the game Ninja Gaiden in it. It's the standard set up, 2 players each with a joystick and two separate buttons. My question is are there any shooter games like Area 51 or Deer Hunt that use guns for this system. What changes are needed if it is even possible. Remember i am new at this so i don't completely know how a shooter game works. Please Help.
Thank You

[Arcade Antics]

Hey Everyone,
i just acquired a 1988 Jamma Arcade Cabinet with the game Ninja Gaiden in it. It's the standard set up, 2 players each with a joystick and two separate buttons. My question is are there any shooter games like Area 51 or Deer Hunt that use guns for this system. What changes are needed if it is even possible.

Both games you listed wouldn't be simple board swaps into your cabinet, they're not JAMMA. First thing you might want to do is check out KLOV and see if any light gun games you like are JAMMA, then go from there.

FWIW, I'd probably just keep the cab you bought as-is and use it to swap out other 2-button horizontal games. If you're looking for Area 51 specifically, just buy an Area 51 machine. :) They're pretty common and shouldn't set you back too much, and you'll have less work to do to get it running.

[DefaultGen]

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[shawnbo42]

Monitor size is just that, size. You could run Area 51 on a 13" monitor, and likewise you could run Ninja Gaiden on a 40". What you really are concerned with is the resoultion of the monitor. Standard res and Medium res are the two most common monitor types in the arcade industry (not counting newer games that use VGA inputs, and LCD TV's). Standard res is just about anything out there you can think of (Simpsons, Street Fighter, NBA Jam, Double Dragon, Pac-Man...the list goes on). Medium res, on the other hand, is a higer resoultion for a less "pixelated" picture. Some games I know of off hand that use med res. are Virtua Fighter, NFL Blitz, Golden Tee '03 and up, Total Vice, and Hard Drivin'. It is backwards compatible one way, but not the other. Medium res can display a std. res picture, no problem, but a std. res monitor will not properly display a med res signal. Some boards, like Blitz, are either dipswitch or toggle switch selectable for resoultions. In otherwords, if you wanted to plag in your Blitz '99 to your Double Dragon machine (for whatever reason), you simply set you dipswitch to standard res, and it's ok. If you put the same Blitz board into a dedicated "Jamma-tized" Virtua Fighter (which has a med res. monitor, you need to re-wire the cab for JAMMA however)), select your dipswitch to med res, and the same PCB is totally playable on either one. I think that just about covers the topic for today's monitor class. On another note, I'm going to pick on AA for a second. I do believe that Area 51 AND Deer Hunter BOTH are JAMMA boards, but AA is Right. It's not worth the work to be able to play them on that Ninja Gaiden cabinet. Better to buy a cab that's already set up for gun play and go from there. I wonder if you COULD play Deer Hunter with a pistol, and no re-loading? Have to look into that one. Reloading that shotgun really kills the high scores.....

[Peale]

Medium res can display a std. res picture, no problem, but a std. res monitor will not properly display a med res signal.

SOME monitors can do this, but the majority either are fixed at medium res, or you have to switch it manually.

[shawnbo42]

SOME monitors can do this, but the majority either are fixed at medium res, or you have to switch it manually.

Right, but more often than not, a med res tube will display low res w/o a problem, or in the case of some monitors there's a secondary yoke connector which is std or med res, depending on where you connect to. Doesn't really matter anyhow, it's not like you'll destroy your monitor by displaying the wrong res., you just won't be able to play your game is all. (not to get completely off topic here, sorry)

[Peale]

About six months ago we had a Force bartop that we weren't sure if it had a tube issue or not.

We had a bunch of the old (pre computer guts) bartops waiting in the corner to be scrapped. Pulled one of the monitors from it and did a tube swap. Including yokes.

Displayed a fine picture, but the colors were all messed up. Of course, that's because the yoke wasn't designed for that particular tube. But the resolution worked.