Defender on cocktail cabinet?

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Pixcells
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Defender on cocktail cabinet?

Post by Pixcells » Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:27 am

Anyone get Defender running on a cocktail cabinet?

I can get it going but the screen flip for 2- player doesn't work and I can't access the dip-switch menu.

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Re: Defender on cocktail cabinet?

Post by dee2eR » Mon Jul 26, 2021 5:42 am

Unfortunately Defender used some other way of setting cocktail mode that isn't (as far as I am aware) supported by MAME (see: https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=7721). I don't think Defender has dipswitches on the game board, hence no MAME dipswitch menu.

Some games used a different romset or a grounded pin to set cocktail mode too, Asteroids is one that used a grounded pin but luckily Asteroids plays fine upside down...

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