Super ABC Plug-in kit for Pacman or Ms Pacman This page is a technical reference for those who own the SUPER ABC kit manufactured by Two Bit Score during the 1990's. This product is no longer available. Under the terms of an agreement with the copyright holder, NAMCO Ltd., we no longer offer any products which contain their protected software. Every PACMAN and Ms PACMAN game has the same main circuit board inside. Over the twenty+ years since it was introduced, several new games have been written to run on the PACMAN main board. It is now possible to remove and discard all of the original program ROMs from the main board and to fit sixteen different versions of the software on one ROM. Table of Contents COOL FEATURES....................................................................................................................2 CHOOSE YOUR GAME ON SCREEN................................................................................2 HIGH SCORE TABLE..........................................................................................................2 BUY-IN FEATURE...............................................................................................................3 ALL THE BEST GAMES......................................................................................................3 PACMAN...........................................................................................................................4 MS. PACMAN...................................................................................................................4 PAC ATTACK...................................................................................................................5 MS. PAC ATTACK...........................................................................................................5 PACMAN PLUS................................................................................................................6 MS. PACMAN AFTER DARK.........................................................................................6 ULTRA PACMAN............................................................................................................7 PIRANHA..........................................................................................................................7 High Score or Continue......................................................................................................8 High Score Table................................................................................................................8 Features................................................................................................................................11 Troubleshooting...................................................................................................................13 DIP Switch Settings.............................................................................................................14 Help......................................................................................................................................14 Table of Figures Figure 1 – Main Menu................................................................................................................2 Figure 2 - High Score Table.......................................................................................................2 Figure 3 - Continue....................................................................................................................3 Figure 4 - Pac-man.....................................................................................................................4 Figure 5 - Ms. Pac-man..............................................................................................................4 Figure 6 - Pac Attack..................................................................................................................5 Figure 7 - Ms. Pac Attack...........................................................................................................5 Figure 8 - Pac-man Plus.............................................................................................................6 Figure 9 - Ms. Pac-man After Dark............................................................................................6 Figure 10 - Ultra Pac-man..........................................................................................................7 Figure 11 - Piranha.....................................................................................................................7 Figure 12 - Continue..................................................................................................................8 Figure 13 - High Score Table.....................................................................................................8 Figure 14 - Diagnostics..............................................................................................................9 Figure 15 - Bookkeeping............................................................................................................9 Figure 16 - Super ABC kit main board....................................................................................10 Figure 17 - Test Mode..............................................................................................................11 1 COOL FEATURES CHOOSE YOUR GAME ON SCREEN Figure 1 – Main Menu o Insert a coin, then use the joystick to select a game. o Play the same game continuously, or choose a new game each time. HIGH SCORE TABLE Figure 2 - High Score Table o Put in your initials if you are in the top ten high scores. 2 o The high score table is shared by all the games. o The game remembers the high scores when it is shut off! BUY-IN FEATURE Figure 3 - Continue o Got a great game going? Choose to continue your game! o Drop a coin and jump back into the game in the same scene with your full score. ALL THE BEST GAMES o Play all your old favorites in their original form. These are not emulations, this is all the original code running on the original game board. o Play FAST and SLOW versions of all the games. The original PACMAN game is referred to as SLOW. Within a few months of it's release, hackers had figured out how to change a few bytes of code to make the yellow PACMAN character move twice as FAST, while the bad guys went the same old speed. This SPEED-UP option is one of the most popular programs of all times, and almost every arcade game has this FAST version installed. You can play it BOTH WAYS! 3 PACMAN Figure 4 - Pac-man The yellow guy in his first incarnation. Eat the dots and avoid the ghosts while gobbling fruit and power pellets. MS. PACMAN Figure 5 - Ms. Pac-man Featuring a female Pac, Ms. Pacman provides additional mazes, moving fruit, and smarter ghosts! 4 PAC ATTACK Figure 6 - Pac Attack In this popular version, Pacman's mazes get changed. On higher levels, eating a power pellet can erase the maze! MS. PAC ATTACK Figure 7 - Ms. Pac Attack A new set of mazes to drive players crazy! 5 PACMAN PLUS Figure 8 - Pac-man Plus Not just a graphic update to PACMAN; in this challenging game the ghosts are faster and smarter. On higher levels, eating a pellet may not turn all the ghosts blue, and sometimes hides the maze for a time! However, eating a fruit will scare the ghosts and allow players to score up to 3200 points eating them! MS. PACMAN AFTER DARK Figure 9 - Ms. Pac-man After Dark Everything's lit up like a neon sign except the maze! You'll have to remember your MS. PACMAN mazes to make it through safely. The ghosts are worth more points this time, however. 6 ULTRA PACMAN Figure 10 - Ultra Pac-man A faster, harder, more challenging PACMAN. Multiple mazes will challenge even the greatest of PACMAN wizards. A special fruit which rarely appears awards the player with a free credit! PIRANHA Figure 11 - Piranha A popular kit among operators in the early 80s, this time the player controls a hungry piranha chased by squid! 7 High Score or Continue Figure 12 - Continue Think you have a shot at the high score table? CONTINUE! High Score Table Figure 13 - High Score Table At the end of the game, the player will be asked to enter their initials if their score is one of the ten highest scores ever. 8 Diagnostic Mode Figure 14 - Diagnostics Got a problem with your cabinet wiring or joystick switches? Enter the diagnostic mode! Bookkeeping Figure 15 - Bookkeeping Need to know how many coins should be in the coin box? Check the bookkeeping page! 9