Was there a Jamma converter for the PC Engine?

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I was wondering about a long and distant memory...

Galaga88 is one of my all time fave games, and put lots of money into it over the years in Worthing Arcade!

I bought the PC Engine version a few years back, (Sold now) and it was 100% as I expected.

Then I saw a screen shot of the Arcade version for sale on Ebay, and it said "To start push only 1 player button" on the title screen:



But I remember it saying "Push Run to start" just like my PC Engine:



Is my old memory playing tricks on me? Or is it possible some kind of hack allowed arcade owners to connect a PC Engine to a Jamma Board, with "Credit" device?

The Arcade cab was sometimes "Tiger Heli" and sometimes "Galaga88" and it was only the game that changed, not the cab.

Did such a device exist?

[J0e Musashi]

There was yes.

[dannywhac]

Twas a third party mod with the blessing of NEC - someone asked the same question a few years back - have a look here

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Sweet!

"United Amusement PC-Engine based hardware"

So there you go.... My memory was right, and I was in fact playing PC Engine games at the time.

What a great little console. Games so arcade perfect, you could replace Jamma boards with $50 Hu Cards.

Must have been a great little earner for the Arcade pier.

[Baseley09]

There is a CVG news article reporting this from the time also circa 1989, those were the days.