MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: List of mechanical (but NON pinball) games ?

>I don't know how many of the British AWPs count, as while they have mechanically
>controlled features (reels and the like), most of these are under direct CPU instruction
>and can therefore have their behaviour emulated with 100% accuracy.

Some of the EM hardware games also use a cpu such as Midway's 18 Wheeler using a z80 cpu for handling gameplay. 18 Wheeler is a non-screen video game, but it uses components in which it would make heavy use of artwork layout features such as lamp outputs etc.

http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/mw18w.c.html

Some of these games would need to have artwork parts either scanned or photographed.

If you have access to parts to scan or photograph that is a start. You'd still need to simulate/emulate the reel movements. If there are repair manuals for the British AWPs do they have technical spec sheet charts to show the reel speeds or rotation of reels?

If the manuals have that type of info printed, then those pages can be referred to for emulating the hardware itself.

As an example Wild Gunman (additional sheet...not yet scanned) shows the film reels and the time elapsed from a cell frame point A to a cell frame point B where a specific sequence occurs. Some of the schematics for EM games show operational movements or speed of some of the mechanical parts (Midway or Allied Leisure) used in gameplay.

>Is there a strict definition of what is 'mechanical'.

I am not sure if the boundaries have been fully defined yet of what defines games being under mechanical category. Data East Destiny has input buttons and then the program selects the specific text for the printer to print out to the paper. Hard to say if this could be mechanical, but if it requires external useage of a printer to provide output...maybe it can be listed as mechanical too.

http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=arcadedb&id=960

http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/deshoros.c.html