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I am happy to wait for an eventual Pac Man Jr core, but while doing a deep dive on Pac Man games, I seemed to remember one called Professor Pac-Man as seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Pac-Man

Apparently in the real hardware world, some parts are insanely difficult to replace. I can see why: The wiki states "Only 400 cabinets were made; approximately 300 of these were returned to the manufacturer and converted to Pac-Land cabinets the following year."

I'd bet some of those remaining cabinets could use a MiSTer core if no other hardware replacement was possible. From a PRESERVATION standpoint, let's hope this one isn't too tricky to do. I don't know the hardware differences (if any) to other PacMan games, but if conversions were made to Pac-Land, that may be a place to start.

Any fans of the Prof. here?

seastalker wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:52 pm

I am happy to wait for an eventual Pac Man Jr core,...

In Alternative there are 4 of them: Pacman Jr. (Maze 1) - HBMame.mra. With 4 different mazes. These are HB roms so it may not be what you are looking for.

Professor pacman ran on a version of the bally astrocade hardware with different graphics hardware giving 16 colours and it also had masses of banked rom (768k)

it uses the same custom chips used by Gorf, Wizard of Wor, Robby Roto etc.

I own a real prof pac-man arcade cab. The pcb died and a buddy of mine put mame in it and now it works. He even got all the flashing lights to work just like the real game.

shertz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:56 pm

I own a real prof pac-man arcade cab. The pcb died and a buddy of mine put mame in it and now it works. He even got all the flashing lights to work just like the real game.

Do you still have that pcb?

LamerDeluxe wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:59 am

shertz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:56 pm

I own a real prof pac-man arcade cab. The pcb died and a buddy of mine put mame in it and now it works. He even got all the flashing lights to work just like the real game.

Do you still have that pcb?

Yea

shertz wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:32 am

LamerDeluxe wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:59 am

shertz wrote: ↑Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:56 pm

I own a real prof pac-man arcade cab. The pcb died and a buddy of mine put mame in it and now it works. He even got all the flashing lights to work just like the real game.

Do you still have that pcb?

Yea

That might help, if a developer decides to work on this core, if there are no (good) schematics available.