Allows you to use your Falcon or pinout compatible pre-JAMMA game, in a JAMMA cabinet or a supergun device.

Falcon released Crazy Kong in 1981. It was virtually identical to Donkey Kong with the most obvious difference being the way it sounds and changes to the color palette.

Even though the game was considered a bootleg at the time, it was in fact properly licensed for distribution as Nintendo couldn’t keep up with the demand for Donkey Kong. Crazy Kong was however a completely different product, with different code running on different hardware.

The pinout for Crazy Kong has a convenient 36 pin layout and has been since used in other games by Falcon. It was later adopted by other manufacturers as well who made minor changes to the pinout along the way.

In the end, there are at least a dozen variants of this pinout. Some are somewhat compatible, and others are not. This is especially true when dealing with bootleg games. With so many variants, it is simply not practical to create an adapter that can reliably convert all games. After a lot of research and experimentation, I ended up producing two adapters for the Falcon pinout class, which cover about 80% of the important releases.

This adapter aims to be as compatible as possible with the early games that use this pinout. This class of games typically has the power pins on the right when looking at the edge connector parts side while it is facing away.

For games that have power pins on the left, please see the listing for Falcon Type B adapters.