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RTWs site is a must, cant believe you missed that! :shock:

forgot the URL tho and teh site is blocked from my work computer :roll: world-of-arcades.com ?
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sven666 wrote:RTWs site is a must, cant believe you missed that! :shock:
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System 16 might be worth a mention for hardware specifications and game titles/screenshots. Although, some of their hardware specs are a bit off...
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Too bad Arcadepapers.com seems to be down, was pretty good before that (run by TheSheep of WOA fame). The domain is expired. But with all the great resources in the first post like Crazy Kong etc. do wee need more?
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emphatic wrote:Too bad Arcadepapers.com seems to be down, was pretty good before that (run by TheSheep of WOA fame). The domain is expired. But with all the great resources in the first post like Crazy Kong etc. do wee need more?
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Anyone got a translation of the DDP DOJ hard dip settings? Wanna set it to free play and play with the difficulty but I don't want to flip dips willy nilly!

Thanks!
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maxlords wrote:Anyone got a translation of the DDP DOJ hard dip settings? Wanna set it to free play and play with the difficulty but I don't want to flip dips willy nilly!

Thanks!
It uses soft dips, just go into the menu and see for yourself, no need for a translation, just cycle through the available menu options, it's all in english.

Unless I'm missing something and you don't own the PCB and are on mame, in which case hold F2 for test mode.
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There are soft dips...hmmm. There's also a set of hard dips on it on the side...was wondering what those did.
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Dip 1 enables test, the rest do nothing.
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does anybody have any info on "Denjin Makai" dipswitch settings? I can not find the manual anywhere; Mame's driver source code does not have any info either.
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Nice! Thanks for the list!
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http://www.arcade-museum.com/ has a lot of manuals.
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I know it doesn't have to do with manuals, but im still broken up that MAWS is dead.
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Sorry layman here
What's a dip switch?
And what do settings change?
Just found hidden menu on my arcade stick and wanna get best out of it thnx

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Dip switches are physical switches that are soldered to a circuit board that you have to physically interact with to change their position. They were how you changed the settings on a lot of older arcade boards such as # starting lives, difficulty, coin options, and so on, before robust test menu options where you could do all that via a test menu button became the standard.

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What dip switches do depended on the arcade board; there wasn't a common standard, so if you're using an emulator you need to refer to its dip switch settings menu to see what options are available, and if the game has a test menu, what ones can be set there.
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