Converting to Ms Pacman cocktail?

[H Burmeister]

I have recently acquired a Midway Rally X cocktail and am interested in
converting it to a Ms Pacman. This is my first arcade game and I am a
little new to the whole process, but is it simply a matter of changing out
the boards? What is considered a board? Where can I find them? Anything
special I should look for because it is a cocktail?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Kev]

Biggest problem is Rally X is a 13" horizontal cabinet.

You will need to recut the top for a 19" monitor & find the elusive cocktail
braket (Kerry Stairs, Mantis Amusements may have these?).

You will need to re do the wiring harness.

Fair amount of work required.

Kev
mowe...@erols.com

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[Sean Kovacs]

First thing you will have to do is rotate the monitor since Rally-X is
horizontal and Ms. Pacman is vertical...

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[Mhooks10]

I don't think the connectors will be the same. It will probably need to be
re-wired to take the Pacman board. You may also need to replace the power
supply. All original Midway pacman boards are capable of being used in a
cocktail. Working pacman boards can often be found on Ebay or on this
newsgroup. The going price for a working one seems to be around $175 to $200. I
hope this helps.

Mark Hooks

[Michael Lenardon]

Rally X is a great little game and if original and working you might want
to sell or trade for a gutted 19" midway cocktail cabinet which would be a
better start.

Michael
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[someotherguy]

Converting it isn't as difficult as some would have you believe. No, it's not
the "correct" cabinet style at all, but with some effort it can be done.

The width of the 13" horizontal monitor opening is about correct for a 19"
vertical mount monitor. You will need to cut the rest of the opening out. Use
the monitor cutout on a Ms. Pac-Man cocktail glass underlay as a rough guide,
and Kerry's cocktail monitor brackets for the final fit. You'll need the Ms.
Pac-Man board, a 19" monitor in a horizontal mount frame (yes I said horizontal,
the original machine uses this, turned sideways), Kerry's
(www.mantisamusements.com) brackets, monitor shroud and smoked plexi, a
switching power supply, new control panels (most likely the size that fit a
Pac-Man cocktail) or you will need to re-drill the joystick hole in your
existing ones if you want proper overlays to fit them. You'll need the
"conversion" Ms. Pac overlays from www.arcadeshop.com because the dedicated ones
are a different size, and a Ms. Pac-Man bezel glass underlay. You'll need to
build a wiring harness for it. My suggestion would be wire up a jamma harness
then lop the end off and wire it up to a Pac-sized connector. That, or
buy/build a Pac to jamma adaptor. Or, instead of a switching power supply and
building your own harness, you could transplant the transformers and harness
from a Ms.Pac or Pac cocktail...or even an upright, and add the extra control
panel harness.

Sound like a lot of work? It is. Also helps a lot if you have experience doing
this kind of stuff. I could personally knock this job out in a long weekend, or
a week of evenings, but it's not something I would wish on a newbie.

Maybe you could find someone who wants to buy your Rally-X, and you could put
that money towards a Ms. Pac.

Richard

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