Nintendo Red Tent Owners - Questions For You

[jsjesse]

I've come across a good deal for a tent cab, and I wanted to know if anyone here has modded one of these for use with other NES titles that weren't originally offered in the VS library.

I thought about doing a Mame style project that would only play NES games, but to my knowledge this cabinet doesn't use the standard Jamma wiring(or does it?)

Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone here has taken on this kind of project with their red tent cab.

Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Xavier]

I've come across a good deal for a tent cab, and I wanted to know if anyone here has modded one of these for use with other NES titles that weren't originally offered in the VS library.

I thought about doing a Mame style project that would only play NES games, but to my knowledge this cabinet doesn't use the standard Jamma wiring(or does it?)

Anyway, I wanted to know if anyone here has taken on this kind of project with their red tent cab.

Any feedback or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Winthout looking it up on klov.com I think it only plays vs. games and I can only think of maybe four of them. Turn into into a players choice, there a ton of games on that system. One day I want a tabletop playerschoice machine.

Vs games excitebike, super mario brothers, duck hunt.hmm...

 

[jsjesse]

So there are people that have turned these red tents into players choice cabs??

 

[voltronbadass]

I have a jamma-fied playchoice

never heard of someone putting one in a red tent though

 

[Moon Jump]

You mean this?

I never knew they were called a Tent. That's the one at FunSpot with Tennis in it. I'm pretty sure you can put in other Vs. games into the machine. I was watching a subtitled episode of Game Center CX and one of the arcades had a tent with Ice Climbers in it, so it might just work on the same hardware the other Vs. games ran on. If you can make it into a Playchoice, that would be a good idea, unless you have Tennis for four players. The control takes getting used to, but it's a lot of fun with three friends.

 

[Neo Alec]

Put Play Choice games in, but don't destroy anything to un-vs-ify it. Those Vs. machines are fairly rare and fucking awesome.

 

[TheLizardKing]

There's this guy on youtube with a Nintendo Red Tent. Maybe you can contact him and get some ideas. Here's his channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/blkdog7

 

[jsjesse]

Well, I am gonna keep it stock and just try to track down games for this sucker.

A mame nes project can be done, but with all the work and hacking it would totally defile the cabinet.

I'll keep you guys updated.

 

[voodoodoctorx]

I have a jamma-fied playchoice

what the heck is that?

jsjesse go here for info on nintendo playchoice/vs systems.

screw stock, convert it to a playchoice-10 and you could have 10 games on each side

 

[Neo Alec]

screw stock, convert it to a playchoice-10 and you could have 10 games on each side

But the Vs games are special and so is the cabinet. There's nothing else quite like it in Nintendo history. Don't mangle this fine collector's piece.

 

[caldwert]

That blkdog7 guy is over on KLOV.com's messageboard. I'd probably leave it as a Vs. cabinet since some versions of Vs games vary from their NES counterparts. Actually if you ask around at KLOV, I'm sure they can fill you in on Vs. systems.

 

[voodoodoctorx]

But the Vs games are special and so is the cabinet. There's nothing else quite like it in Nintendo history. Don't mangle this fine collector's piece.

Is it special? I guess that i always just thought of the Vs system as the predecessor to the Playchoice-10. Really, outside of being able to play 4p in a few games it’s basically just an ugly one slot Playchoice. That graphic above is from a Nintendo kit designed to convert Vs machines to Playchoice-10’s, and from the looks of things it doesn’t require adding any extra buttons to the panel or otherwise mangling the cab. So I really don’t see it the same way as when someone drills holes in a MVS panel to play cps II games. I just wonder if 2 playchoice mobo's will actually fit in the thing.

 

[Neo Alec]

Is it special? I guess that i always just thought of the Vs system as the predecessor to the Playchoice-10. Really, outside of being able to play 4p in a few games it’s basically just an ugly one slot Playchoice. That graphic above is from a Nintendo kit designed to convert Vs machines to Playchoice-10’s, and from the looks of things it doesn’t require adding any extra buttons to the panel or otherwise mangling the cab. So I really don’t see it the same way as when someone drills holes in a MVS panel to play cps II games. I just wonder if 2 playchoice mobo's will actually fit in the thing.

Yes, the games are very special. They play differently than their NES counterparts, and the Vs cab was the only way to play them.

 

[Moon Jump]

The Vs. Games are much different then the games that came out on the NES. Vs. Super Mario Brothers has different stage layouts and in Vs. Duck Hunt you play one round of ducks, then the skeet shooting and you get a rapid fire round with a bunch of ducks and you have to avoid shooting the dog. I took a video of me shooting the dog at FunSpot and nobody seemed to care. I really wish Nintendo would offer some of the Vs. games on the Virtual Console.

 

[SuperGunGuru]

As others already said, BLKDOG over on KLOV is very knowledgeable about the Red Tent cabs. He has a site that lists the games made available.

http://www.johnsarcade.com/nintendo_vs_ppu_info.php

I have a Red Tent also and it's a cool little system. I just wish I could get my VS Dr Mario board working.