{"id":108,"date":"2004-07-20T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-11-25T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T19:39:02","slug":"mame-williams-coin-input-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Mame Williams Coin Input Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A user on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcadecontrols.org\/yabbse\/index.php\">Arcade Controls Forums<\/a> noted that Joust and other similar hardware Williams games had a strange behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>When you would put a coin into slot one (5) it would register one credit.  When you would put it into the left slot (6) it would register *four* credits.<\/p>\n<p>Did some looking, turns out the driver is <i>almost<\/i> correct.  It has the third coin slot in as the service button (the service menu is accessed by hitting [F2])<\/p>\n<p>So I worked on it a bit.  Couldn&#8217;t figure out what it was doing, as I didn&#8217;t realize that the proper button had already been entered, it was just labeled wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Santillan filled me in on what was happening, so I rearranged things a bit.  Now, hitting:<\/p>\n<p>5 (left slot) gives you one credit<br \/>\n6 (right slot) gives you one credit<br \/>\n7 (center slot) gives you four credits.<\/p>\n<p>I could have done it left-center-right, but I thought that would break more than just a few cabinets.  But if someone wants to hook up their Williams cabinet to one of these style coin doors (mainly Defender cabinets, I believe) they can.<\/p>\n<p>Likely it was done before with doubling up on the left slot, but now at least it&#8217;s accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Available <a href=\"williams.zip\">here<\/a>.  Put into your .\/src\/drivers\/ directory and compile as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user on the Arcade Controls Forums noted that Joust and other similar hardware Williams games had a strange behaviour. When you would put a coin into slot one (5) it would register one credit. When you would put it into the left slot (6) it would register *four* credits. Did some looking, turns out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}