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I bought this old Cabinet from a dealer called
OK Automater here in Denmark
In the cabinet was
there a Neo Geo PCB with Samurai Shodown III and Goal Goal Goal.
They were removed before I bought the cabinet.
The InterVideo monitor from Italy did not work, and the associated
motherboard.
Compu Game in Denmark produced this cabinet way back in the 80s.
The name of the cabinet was called: Luxus II. |
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Here can you see the Compu
Game control panel.
You can see there are 2 Joysticks, 9 push buttons and 2 player
buttons.
And these are all working, But i removed them for another types. |
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So i started to
disconnect all the push buttons
and the two joysticks.
The top-marquee and the big
door in the front.
This wass a work
that took a lot of time. |
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Then the broken Intervideo monitor from
Italy, and the associated PCB mainboard.
However, I later regretted that I discarded the large mainboard. |
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Here can you see a almost empty cabinet,
now it just needs cleaning around.
You can see a Samsung Tv.
in the left side, this is the one to be insert as the new
Monitor. |
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Here are the Samsung Tv removed from its
own cabinet and mounted in the cabinet from
Compu Game.
You can
accurate see the Samsung mainboard.
The little lamp was later replaced
with a fluorescent. |
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As you can see, here are
some new push buttons
i ordered from Arcadeshop in Germany.
The two
white buttons was for
"Player 1"
and "Player 2".
The reds for
"Jump/Bomb",
and the green for
"Fire".
The Blue one is for
"#"
and the Gray for
" ", the Microswitches is spare parts. |
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Here are the top marquee
"CG Video" (Compu Game) mounted back
to its place again.
The Samsung
mainboard is mounted, and the "Smoke" front glass are on its place
again.
The speaker are connected too. |
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The ColecoVision has taken place in the
mid-lower cabinet.
My first plan was to take Colecovisions own PCB and install it in
a special way, but it must be in a later update.
I knew in advance that it would work with an arcade joystick, I had
already tested that before in the mid 80s. |
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Here
are two shelves for all my cartridges, and in the lower room in the
cabinet there are
also a place
for the
Steering wheel and the Roller-Controller.
Since I now have over 100 ColecoVision
games, have i been obliged to involve the square on the bottom shelf. |
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A lot of wires for the control panel.
Here is it Player 1 and 2 (white), Joystick 1 and 2 and Fire
buttons A (red) and B (green) for Player 1 plus
A and B for Player
2. |
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Oh my god...
All the wires back, are for the two Coleco Controllers.
Some games can't be used when i do it on this way, (Turbo - Slither)
and so on.
But in the future will i maybe update with the Steering Wheel and the Roller Controller. |
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In this picture can you see how some of the wires are soldered on
the Coleco Controller.
10 wires, 5 for directions and 3 for Fire and Jump, and 2 for
Player mode.
That's for 1 Controller.
It will be re wired again in the future. |
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Here are a picture with some of the buttons, and the two joysticks in
a closed and total
edition. |
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Player 1 and Player 2 works fine.
A test of
Konami's
Roc'n Rope and
Cosmic
Avenger in a 2
player mode. |
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As you can see in this test of
SEGA's
Carnival and
Space Invaders
Collection, it run just fine
with the
Samsung Tv. |
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The beginning of my new marquee, a version of the european brand
with the CBS first.
The right side of the picture is from the Ben Heck site on the
internet.
The CBS brand do i have to made up at my self.
The two brands are first printed on two A4 transparent films.
Back light will then pass through the colourful brand and the black foil shall surround
it. |
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As you can see, Space Invaders Collection from Opcode
Games is running.
It was planned to create a larger control
panel that would include 2 x Champ pads and the ability to use the
steering wheel and accelerator plus the Roller Controller.
It was planned to be available in a single machine.
I built this machine in the good old-fashioned way
and it was absolute the most expensive way.
It was also planned to only use a single Cartridge, namely
AtariMax
128:1, then you are free to constantly switch between many of
the CV games.
A third option was: Build a PC in the cabinet, and installing
an emulator. For example
BlueMSX.
You don't even need to own a ColecoVision at that way.
With this solution you will need to
use parts from your Expansion Module # 2
Here do you need signals from your
Joystick, 3 wires (up - down - negative).
There are different versions of the gear shifters, this version is
returning to the center position. Just like your ColecoVision
Controllers.
 
With this
solution you are close to plug and play, the two wires from the
ColecoVision pedal, just soldered directly to the microswitch in the
new foot pedal. |
