Westcb
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Glad that was useful. The only other thing that's worth pointing out is that you'll need an audio amp capable of driving 8 ohm speakers as the J-Pac does not have any audio processing capabilities. It provides two screw terminals for you to connect audio to, but you need to push the output from the pi through an amp of some sort. I'm still looking for a good option that I can power via jamma connector since most audio amps need high amperage, and the RPi3 has pretty high power requirements as well (~2.5amps).
Also, still trying to figure out how to make the emulation station menu look correct at weird resolutions like 1920x240. But it all works, in my opinion, far better than the PB3 does.
If you want to emulate the MK games, do note that the sound seems to screw up on MK3/UMK3 after a few rounds. Which is annoying, not sure if there's a way to fix that... Considering that MK2 is based on the same hardware, I think the same might happen there, but I've not run into this in the limited amount of time I've messed with MK2. Also note that the MK games output more than 240 lines so running it with 1:1 pixel accuracy isn't possible as far as I'm aware. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I got one of the raspberry pi3 Jamma adapters, has built in video and audio amp, comes preconfigured with daphne, final burn alpha, and 2-3 versions of mame. I been using it for cps1,2,3 etc and have been really enjoying it. A guy on Klov sells them and gives great support for it. The SD card has the Roms setup on a Windows compatible file folder so you can just plug it in your PC to add Roms, although the pi3 has built in wifi so I'm sure you could telnet etc into it and make the changes you need. I'm not as savvy with nix based systems so I just plug a keyboard up to it directly and make the changes in mame like I would on my PC.