What's the largest board out there?

J0e Musashi · May 18, 2004

My Supergun in its final stages, so I'm quite pleased. I'm including a PCB holder in my design. I want to know the dimensions of the largest board out there is so that I can measure out my holder to acommodate that and any other boards that I play. I'm thinking it's either a 6-slot MVS or a CPS-2 board, the only board I have is a 4-slot so I cant check. Any help appreciated as this is pretty much the only thing left to do.

RiotoftheBlood · May 18, 2004

I've seen a Primal Rage board that was positively huge. Probably 2-3 times the sq. area of a CPS-2 board.

MKL · May 18, 2004

Primal Rage is big but not that big:

Ninja Warriors is bigger (3 layers):

And this is not jamma but what the hell?!?

BlackSpy · May 18, 2004

MKL said:
And this is not jamma but what the hell?!?

Funny to see you asking a question for once, even if only rhetorical.

DanAdamKOF · May 18, 2004

ENIAC?

Reznor007 · May 18, 2004

Sega Model 1 boards take up a fair amount of space too...A fairly large CPU/video/ROM cart/network PCB stack, separate I/O board, and separate sound board stack. I think Model 2 used basically the same setup.

Midway Seattle and Vegas boards are almost as big as Primal Rage.

Lagduf · May 19, 2004

I have a taito Qix board, though non jamma its quite large. Similar to some of the other stuff MKL posted.

chris1 · May 19, 2004

I have this Arch Rivals board..with all it's misc pcbs on it's base it's Huge..

Like above.

ttooddddyy · May 19, 2004

Used to have a bootleg SF board, single board about the size of a MVH6

Nightmare Tony · Jun 4, 2004

MKL: Thanks for posting that picture of the Ninja Warriors board! Ah, memories. I forget whihc of the 4 mask roms, but 2 have my voice in there

The largest board I have is probably the world's record, Cybertank. It is a 4 board stack, each board is 1.5 by 2 feet. By comparison, Ninja Warriors is some 14 by 18 inches, 2 large boards and the tiny sound board. also, Ninja Warriors is 3 monitor and consumes 15 amps of current. It will eat your supergun power supply quite fast if it is a small one...

Cybertank I think draws about 25 amps. The game is kind of insane...

DanAdamKOF · Jun 4, 2004

DanAdamKOF said:
ENIAC?

No one got this? Eniac was one of the first computers (you know the room-sized ones like UNIVAC and so forth)...

Reznor007 · Jun 4, 2004

Ferrari F355 triple screen might outdo that...4 Naomi units to run the three screens

Namco System21 hardware is also pretty big...4 PCB's in a metal cage. Each PCB is somewhere between 1.5-2 feet wide and 1 foot deep.

Mushiki · Jun 4, 2004

Reznor007 said:
Ferrari F355 triple screen might outdo that...4 Naomi units to run the three screens

Well, theorically, you can connect up to 16 NAOMI board together, so...

Nightmare Tony · Jun 5, 2004

yes, but naomi is so dinky in size there...smaller than an sf2 board.

Ah, ENIAC, maybe 200-1000 bytes of RAM, courtesy of moby memory...or was thjat the tx-0? Bleah/

twalden · Jun 5, 2004

MKL said:
And this is not jamma but what the hell?!?

Atually, that ROTJ board is about the same size most other Atari games of the same era. If you want to see a really huge boardset, check out an Atari system 2 game like Paperboy or 720.

NGT · Jun 6, 2004

this star rider boardset looks like it would take up a lot of room:

and I am sure many of you have seen this, but you can see a crap load of pcb's here: http://arcadecollecting.xmission.com/pcbpics/

Nightmare Tony · Jun 6, 2004

Star Rider very much does (got one int he living room). On the rack, it is each huge set front and back with the rom board piggybacked via posts.

Boardwaise space, it takes up more board room than ninja warriors by amybe 10%, but is still some 30% smaller than the cybertank boardset.

Also, ninja warriors boardset is also the same size as darius 1 and 2.

What's the largest board out there?

J0e Musashi

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RiotoftheBlood

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MKL

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BlackSpy

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DanAdamKOF

Iori's Flame

Reznor007

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Lagduf

2>X

chris1

POCKETBIKE NUT,

ttooddddyy

PNG FTW,

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DanAdamKOF

Iori's Flame

Reznor007

Host for Orochi

Mushiki

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NGT

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