Frontier
Bally, 1980
Six Million Dollar Man, The
Bally, 1978I have a fully populated Frontier playfield with all the mechs & wiring harness and a complete Six Million Dollar Man machine with all the boards, transformer and so on. Would their sizes and some of the components match? What am I up against? Is there a better route to take on this build up?
The hinges on the head are not the issue - the issue will be the backbox lamp/display board from 6M$M does not match up at all with Frontier. So that would need to be made from scratch so the displays would line up in the Frontier backglass. Everything else will work fine.
Quoted from Xenon75:The hinges on the head are not the issue - the issue will be the backbox lamp/display board from 6M$M does not match up at all with Frontier. So that would need to be made from scratch so the displays would line up in the Frontier backglass. Everything else will work fine.
What other machines would have the same head?
At some point the backbox thickness changed. My Centaur has a slightly shallower backbox than my 6M$M. Not a big deal but the Frontier paint stencil for the backbox would be too narrow.
Also Frontier uses a different sound board. You'll have to get that board, with the correct EPROM, then alter the wiring harness to make it work. Also: isn't Frontier a 7 digit game?
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