Looking for a Dinosaur king machine

[Cheeky_emz]

I grew up on this game in my local arcade and I've been searching for over 5 months for a working machine.

The idea of making a custom one for my PC is feasible with the idea of making a working barcode scanner however an actual machine is definitely more desirable.

If anyone has any up for sale or knows someone, please let me know.

Many thanks

 

[Retroman839]

Great one near me this summer …
Finished around £700 In great Nick with loads of cards ,
So I does come up from time to time.

If I see one I will drop you a message
Glwthe search.

I do remeber someone on here having a few , was a little while ago though

 

[Cheeky_emz]

Great one near me this summer …
Finished around £700 In great Nick with loads of cards ,
So I does come up from time to time.

If I see one I will drop you a message
Glwthe search.

I do remeber someone on here having a few , was a little while ago though

Oh that's so cool! Awesome to hear they're still floating around, looking on eBay comes to many dead ends, i do remember seeing a board on there but nothing more

I'll have to look into the coin that goes with the cards also, but that'll be great! Thank you so much

 

[Retroman839]

Are you looking for the board ?
My friend has it.fully working and cards too

 

[Cheeky_emz]

Woah I would definitely buy it if i knew what to do with it, I'm not too tech savvy, all i have is my Laptop and a monitor, perhaps if someone could help it get running with a card scanner and buttons etc?

My brother has a intrest in that thing but I'm unsure about how much work would be needed for it, definitely interested though

 

[Retroman839]

Woah I would definitely buy it if i knew what to do with it, I'm not too tech savvy, all i have is my Laptop and a monitor, perhaps if someone could help it get running with a card scanner and buttons etc?

My brother has a intrest in that thing but I'm unsure about how much work would be needed for it, definitely interested though

I’m sure he will be willing to sell it ..
It needs a pc power supply ( ATX ) with a Naomi to pc power supply connector so you don’t need to cut /join any wires
.. then I guess a sega io pcb..
And a scanner.
Then just 3 buttons per player I think ?

I’m sure it can be displayed on a vga port 31 kHz Tv / pc monitor

 

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

I’m sure he will be willing to sell it ..
It needs a pc power supply ( ATX ) with a Naomi to pc power supply connector so you don’t need to cut /join any wires
.. then I guess a sega io pcb..
And a scanner.
Then just 3 buttons per player I think ?

I’m sure it can be displayed on a vga port 31 kHz Tv / pc monitor

The motherboard has jumper settings for 31kHz but as I don’t have a monitor that can display that, I’ve only ran it in 15kHz so far so I’m not even certain the game will run in 31. The user manual makes no mention of it either iirc.

The cabs seem to be more scarce now than when I bought both of mine. I’ve only seen one come up for sale(publicly) in the last few months and the seller blanked me but I’m working on a deal for one in the next few days but that’s in a bad state so will need a lot of work to get it back to working condition.

I have an almost complete setup that’s sat in a box but I have no control panel for it and the card dispenser died while I was playing it so I ended up dumping that. I want to get one fully up and running but my management chips only have a few plays left.

Also, it won’t run if the management chip is used up(though there are ways round that) or if you don’t have any cards.

 

[Cheeky_emz]

The motherboard has jumper settings for 31kHz but as I don’t have a monitor that can display that, I’ve only ran it in 15kHz so far so I’m not even certain the game will run in 31. The user manual makes no mention of it either iirc.

The cabs seem to be more scarce now than when I bought both of mine. I’ve only seen one come up for sale(publicly) in the last few months and the seller blanked me but I’m working on a deal for one in the next few days but that’s in a bad state so will need a lot of work to get it back to working condition.

I have an almost complete setup that’s sat in a box but I have no control panel for it and the card dispenser died while I was playing it so I ended up dumping that. I want to get one fully up and running but my management chips only have a few plays left.

Also, it won’t run if the management chip is used up(though there are ways round that) or if you don’t have any cards.

I'm completely blank into all of this but there is definitely alot of components i did not consider/know about

I've heard about the management chip and i just bought a pack of cards from maxxgrab to check them out since i only have about 40 from when i used to play the game in the arcade

It would be great to get a whole machine however they are so rare to find let alone buy one, looking into the board seems feasible but it's definitely easier to get a whole machine (especially as i wouldn't know what I'm doing 🥲)

Could you perhaps get it working on a emulator and scanning the cards somehow? Having a bunch of cards and not being able to use them isn't ideal :')

 

[wizardwazard]

I'm completely blank into all of this but there is definitely alot of components i did not consider/know about

I've heard about the management chip and i just bought a pack of cards from maxxgrab to check them out since i only have about 40 from when i used to play the game in the arcade

It would be great to get a whole machine however they are so rare to find let alone buy one, looking into the board seems feasible but it's definitely easier to get a whole machine (especially as i wouldn't know what I'm doing 🥲)

Could you perhaps get it working on a emulator and scanning the cards somehow? Having a bunch of cards and not being able to use them isn't ideal :')

I've been looking since 2020 and haven't found one lol.
Although, I am in the states, so people are reluctant to ship it to me from the UK.

 

[Cheeky_emz]

I've been looking since 2020 and haven't found one lol.
Although, I am in the states, so people are reluctant to ship it to me from the UK.

Yeah that's unfortunately more difficult, shipping must cost a absolute unit especially as you have the worry about breaking something 🥲

The search is understandably difficult, i still wish dinosaur king would be revived by sega already 😭

 

[FrancoB]

This was posted on Saturday and looks to be available still.

https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/sega-dino-king-cabinet-and-cards.84958/