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can’t we swap playfields between different games

By Bigbad

6 years ago


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    #5 6 years ago

    I'm not sure how intercompatible they'd even be in this case, with stuff like SW's second screen, etc.

    You can definitely do this on older machines though if you can find the playfields. I think someone had Family Guy and WPT playfields they'd swap out?

    #11 6 years ago
    Quoted from Bigbad:

    I don’t see why not it’s all the same board set the only differences are the playfield and art work, or am I wrong and the spike 2 is different between Star Wars and aerosmith

    With Spike being a new system and them often changing Node boards, etc I don't think it's safe to say that they'll all be the same wiring in the cabinet. Hopefully it is, but...

    #20 6 years ago
    Quoted from Bigbad:

    So when you open the back box in aerosmith it’s a spike 2 system, then in Star Wars it’s what spike 3? Why can’t a node board revision work on any spike 2 board? The node board uses some better parts that won’t burn out as easy so the back box board set is changed? Maybe I guess, but it sounds crazy to me

    Go open two spike 2 games and read off the part number on the CPU board, and make a list of every connection going to the playfield. They may be the same, but with all the revisions I'd say Spike is the least likely to be all intercompatible of any of the SS systems out there

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