The hard decision...

I have a Virtua Fighter 3 33'' delux dedicated cab. (Daybona rules, btw)

I keep playing the hell out of this thing, but my appetite is waning. Now, I do mame cabs for people all the time and I keep looking at this thing and wanting to MAME the fucking thing already. I won't destroy the artwork or boards.. I refuse to.

Anyways, The only way I'm going to get it done is to find a model3 -> jamma adapter for this thing.... or piggy back the wiring and get a jamma harness in there some how.

I'm really conflicted as the cab is really great, but the 33'' monitor and the button layout is just puuuurrrr-fect for Neo mame.

Are there any model3 -> jamma adapters out there?

What does everyone else think?

..isn that cab 24k(med res) only?

racecar said:

..isn that cab 24k(med res) only?

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Undocumented feature:

It does multiscan. Read up all about it on another forum

Sweet.

you should coverted:chimp: ...you can alway's play VF3 on mame

Thats a nice Can/

I'd leave it man....

You'd probably have to do some drillin'. VF is three buttons right?

I'd prefer to Mame out one of those Big azz.Dynamos

racecar said:

you should coverted:chimp: ...you can alway's play VF3 on mame

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Mame in cabs sucks, get the real thing.

norton9478 said:

Thats a nice Can/

I'd leave it man....

You'd probably have to do some drillin'. VF is three buttons right?

I'd prefer to Mame out one of those Big azz.Dynamos

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I thought you played on it at the last get together???

Nah, it's a 4-button machine, laid out like the neo. I found an arcade dealer that I asked to make a harness for me and he said he might be able to pull it off. I'll hear tomorrow if he wants to or not.

*fingers crossed*

VanillaThunder said:

I thought you played on it at the last get together???

Nah, it's a 4-button machine, laid out like the neo. I found an arcade dealer that I asked to make a harness for me and he said he might be able to pull it off. I'll hear tomorrow if he wants to or not.

*fingers crossed*

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Keep us posted.

I've been interested in running a neo from time to time on my VF3 cab too.

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VanillaThunder said:

Undocumented feature:

It does multiscan. Read up all about it on another forum

Sweet.

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By multiscan, you mean all 3 resolutions, or "switchable" between 15khz and 24khz? Most monitors are the latter. If so, you have to manually switch a plug on the monitor mobo to set it between one or the other resolution, its not automatic. If this is the case you will then need an ArcadeVGA card to output 15khz or 24khz.

RGP said:

Mame in cabs sucks, get the real thing.

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I agree with RGP. Mame emulation will never have perfect video emulation like a real PCB. Trust me I've tried on my cab. No matter what video card you use, or what mame option you use, there will always be a slight difference in the refresh rates, causing a very slight ripple through the picture (more apparent on vertical games that have sprites flashing at 30hz). If you are a perfectionist like me, you will hate this.

Dave_K. said:

By multiscan, you mean all 3 resolutions, or "switchable" between 15khz and 24khz? Most monitors are the latter. If so, you have to manually switch a plug on the monitor mobo to set it between one or the other resolution, its not automatic. If this is the case you will then need an ArcadeVGA card to output 15khz or 24khz.

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I'm well aware of that.

P.S. you don't need an ArcadeVGA. I usually go with Matrox G4 Milleniums. Why pay for an AVGA when you can buy a stack of them for 1/10th of the price?

I agree with RGP. Mame emulation will never have perfect video emulation like a real PCB. Trust me I've tried on my cab. No matter what video card you use, or what mame option you use, there will always be a slight difference in the refresh rates, causing a very slight ripple through the picture (more apparent on vertical games that have sprites flashing at 30hz). If you are a perfectionist like me, you will hate this.

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Of course the video will never be perfect, but that's just fine with me. Even after my big sell-off, I still have quite a few boards in storage and besides from a testing, look over (battery leakage, specifically) and cleaning, I'd like to keep them there. I like MAME because I don't have to swap out my boards, the filters look nice and hell.. I get to play a few games I'll never get my hands on.

The refresh rate issue to me is very minute because you can configure mame to overclock and underclock to as close as possible. The ripple effect is something you *really* have to look for and I'm just not picky like that.