Console to Jamma Adapter Resource Thread

I'm about to pick up a cab and I'm rubbing my hands together at the possibility of giving some consoles new life instead of giving them the boot. I'd like to make a list of consoles in this first post with links to places where adapters can be bought/made for each of these consoles. If you have any info on where to purchase these adapters - fantastic. If you have any firsthand experiences you'd like to share about the product or merchant - even better.

XBox 360:

XBox:

PS2:

PSX:

Dreamcast:

Gamecube:

N64:

Saturn:

Genesis:

Super Nintendo:

NES:

Famicom:

You can get hookups for ps1, ps2, xbox, and dreamcast from Ultimarc. They are great to deal with. Though, the dreamcast controller adapters are ridiculously expensive. You're better off buying the total control plus adapters from ebay and then piece the rest of it together. (Not all adapters work. The adapter must support the rumble feature)

Oh yeah, this might be nice for the genesis.

Jack Burton said:

You can get hookups for ps1, ps2, xbox, and dreamcast from Ultimarc. They are great to deal with. Though, the dreamcast controller adapters are ridiculously expensive. You're better off buying the total control plus adapters from ebay and then piece the rest of it together. (Not all adapters work. The adapter must support the rumble feature)

Oh yeah, this might be nice for the genesis.

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Neat.

Have you dealt with Ultimarc/used their products? What are the benefits of their setup? (their connections are not JAMMA - which makes it seem more difficult to set up in the cab especially if you'll be switching connections often). What powers the console in this instance (wires hanging out the cab)? It's hard to tell if their service is a godsend or a waste of time. Their product is a little confusing not being JAMMA and having the wrong pictures posted for the console -> arcade connections.

ForeverSublime said:

Neat.

Have you dealt with Ultimarc/used their products? What are the benefits of their setup? (their connections are not JAMMA - which makes it seem more difficult to set up in the cab especially if you'll be switching connections often). What powers the console in this instance (wires hanging out the cab)? It's hard to tell if their service is a godsend or a waste of time. Their product is a little confusing not being JAMMA and having the wrong pictures posted for the console -> arcade connections.

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I don't know what you mean by it not being jamma. I just plug it in to my jamma connecter. You plug the console into an outlet. I have a setup for xbox and ps2. I'm in the process of getting a dreamcast working as well. I have no complaints about their products. I can give you some tips as well if you need. I need to eat now, though.

I have a RGB NES PCB for sale.

Jack Burton said:

I don't know what you mean by it not being jamma. I just plug it in to my jamma connecter. You plug the console into an outlet. I have a setup for xbox and ps2. I'm in the process of getting a dreamcast working as well. I have no complaints about their products. I can give you some tips as well if you need. I need to eat now, though.

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Haha (@ "I need to eat now").

I apologize if I misunderstood their products. I don't see any JAMMA fingerboards pictured (in which I figured the power supply from the cab would be powering the console). Their connectors seem to be a modular set consisting of "This connects to the monitor and this connects to the controller ports"). I'll look again briefly, but I tend not to waste my time with confusing pitches.

@Norton: PM is coming soon.

68k made some JAMMA compatible genesis systems before. You should ask him on the details.

ForeverSublime said:

Neat.

Have you dealt with Ultimarc/used their products?

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I've dealt with Ultimarc.

I bought a keyboard encoder card and hook up line for micro-switches to build a PC joystick. (If I had been pointed to the board that acted as a joypad at the time it would have proved more useful, since my Capcom PC games have all disdain toward my wanting to use a USB keyboard encoding card.)

They were very personable (when I put in an e-mail to confirm part of my order. I forget exactly what it was. Otherwise you won't hear much other than when they get your order and when they report your tracking number.)

I believe I had my parcel within four days. One and a half of which I spent refreshing my web browser because the tracking number put it in Nashville. The info wasn't updated until after it was delivered.

The truck didn't even ring the doorbell. I refreshed the page and it went from being pending in Nashville to being "delivered."

No sooner than I had jumped up with my phone to rush to the door to be sure and get ready to gripe out the shipping service than my parcel was at the doorstep with ample packing material therein.

My only gripe with my particular product, the "mini-pac", was that the default pinout for two player put button 4 of my six button pinout as left shift.

(Aside from the pinout being in type 2 font in a jpeg that I couldn't enlarge to make readable. Making for many a game of look at the screen for wire color, look down, find the wire, look up for what it connects to, drop the wire and repeat endlessly.)

Guess what happens when you're playing a game and you tapped button 4 quickly?

That's right! The game stalls out and Windows quickly brings up the sticky-keys dialog box in a move designed to frustrate you and ruin any score you may have been going for! One life down..time to reconfigure.

So, while I had enough connectors for a two player board, I only functionally got one player's worth of buttons configured.

Otherwise, I have no problem.
I'm all the more glad that they produced such an easy work around for what I wanted to do.
Who knows how many USB PC pads I would have killed trying to solder up my own Frankenstienian creation.

I'm sure that's far more exposition than you needed for "Have you dealt with them personally?" but that's my experience in whole with their product.

I recomend Ultimarc's RGB Amp...

But do the controlls yourself....

Also remember that any setup will work differently on different monitors....

My Xbox+RGBAMP setup works great on my my neo29....

BUt doesn't work for shit on my Dynamo25



I am currently having trouble getting my AMP to work with my OG style PSII. I think I need some resistors or bypass some caps.

@radiantsvgun: I shot 68k a PM yesterday asking a few questions. There are a few things I'd like to know (does he still care to make these, etc) before I add him to the list.

I also PM'd a guy named "IKickSnails" about some JAMMAcast adapters I believe he makes.

ForeverSublime said:

@radiantsvgun: I shot 68k a PM yesterday asking a few questions. There are a few things I'd like to know (does he still care to make these, etc) before I add him to the list.

I also PM'd a guy named "IKickSnails" about some JAMMAcast adapters I believe he makes.

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I am going to answer your PM about the NES stuff separately...

But it is my opinion that you are better off doing this type of stuff yourself.....

What I'd really recommend is Building a single rig with AV+Control inputs on one end, and a jamma edge connector on the other... Then You can hook up anything to that rig.

Dreamcast is hella easy too... There are several threads in tech about it...

norton9478 said:

I am going to answer your PM about the NES stuff separately...

But it is my opinion that you are better off doing this type of stuff yourself.....

What I'd really recommend is Building a single rig with AV+Control inputs on one end, and a jamma edge connector on the other... Then You can hook up anything to that rig.

Dreamcast is hella easy too... There are several threads in tech about it...

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My smarmy response:

Perhaps, but I don't feel confident in this area (especially in respects to time and the space available to work on such things) and I don't want to spend the time learning and building in this area. I work doubles and go to school now. I'll consider it, but I'd rather spend my free time at home doing other things. Less effort + Faster installation = Win in my book.

My intrigued response:

You've got the right idea what I'm personally looking for. Won't I need to pull RGB signals (not simply "AV") out of every individual console before I can hook up anything to it? For the sake of a resource, though, I believe this information (adapters, etc) will be beneficial for others.

ForeverSublime said:

My smarmy response:

Perhaps, but I don't feel confident in this area (especially in respects to time and the space available to work on such things) and I don't want to spend the time learning and building in this area. I work doubles and go to school now. I'll consider it, but I'd rather spend my free time at home doing other things. Less effort + Faster installation = Win in my book.

My intrigued response:

You've got the right idea what I'm personally looking for. Won't I need to pull RGB signals (not simply "AV") out of every individual console before I can hook up anything to it? For the sake of a resource, though, I believe this information (adapters, etc) will be beneficial for others.

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Here is what I think you should do:

1. But A Jpac.
2. Buy console converters for the Jpac.
3. Attach a pair of DB-15's to the Edge connector of the JPAC so that you can use your own joystick converters for systems not supported.

I think I fried my ps2 controller adapter. I tried using it for the Dreamcast with a controller adapter, but I think the controller adapter has to support the rumble feature (in order to power the rgb amp????). Now my jpac won't recognize the controller adapter. The lights don't turn on for the jpac when my ps2 is plugged in. Anybody got a quick fix for this. I was hoping to show it to some people tomorrow. Too bad Ultimarc is in the U.K. I need something today.