JammaGuy
Previously I-d-o-s-k-8
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2005
- Posts
- 768
So I recently picked up a KOF 2003 JAMMA Board, and I have everything to make super-guns, just no enclosures, nor decent power supply's.
So it began:
I threw together a fighter stick after cutting down a shoe box to make the dimensions a bit more comfortable. I cut a scrap piece of wood, and drilled out holes to mount HAPP arcade buttons (no sense of wasting my time messing with my sanwa collection), I wired everything together with a spare db-15 extension cable, covered the shoe box with blue painters tape for strength, and viola* I have a 30 minute fighter stick.
Next I needed to wire up a jamma harness. I found a solder type edge connector, so that is where I started. I found an old DIY neobitz S kit that I bought from South-Town FOREVER ago.. I put together the encoder, found some color coded wires, and soldered them to the harness.
Then I found some "Rainbow-Ribbon Wire" and I used that to wire up the controls, it worked out well.
After I got this far, I was like... MAN! I'm ready for go time, but I didn't have a power supply. For some random reason, I remembered that I save all of my old cell phone chargers, and me breaking a shit-ton of phones, I had plenty of them. I searched through all of them until I found one with a +5v output, and I stripped it down and soldered it to the harness.
Now that everything is put together, I was able to plug up the board, and give it a run.
Was a fun/quick project for about an hour of gaming. TOTALLY worth my time though, I had a blast putting it together, and got to bring back old memories playing it.
Now I just need money to get right so that I can actually afford to build things nicely. Haha.
-Bill
So it began:
I threw together a fighter stick after cutting down a shoe box to make the dimensions a bit more comfortable. I cut a scrap piece of wood, and drilled out holes to mount HAPP arcade buttons (no sense of wasting my time messing with my sanwa collection), I wired everything together with a spare db-15 extension cable, covered the shoe box with blue painters tape for strength, and viola* I have a 30 minute fighter stick.
Next I needed to wire up a jamma harness. I found a solder type edge connector, so that is where I started. I found an old DIY neobitz S kit that I bought from South-Town FOREVER ago.. I put together the encoder, found some color coded wires, and soldered them to the harness.
Then I found some "Rainbow-Ribbon Wire" and I used that to wire up the controls, it worked out well.
After I got this far, I was like... MAN! I'm ready for go time, but I didn't have a power supply. For some random reason, I remembered that I save all of my old cell phone chargers, and me breaking a shit-ton of phones, I had plenty of them. I searched through all of them until I found one with a +5v output, and I stripped it down and soldered it to the harness.
Now that everything is put together, I was able to plug up the board, and give it a run.
Was a fun/quick project for about an hour of gaming. TOTALLY worth my time though, I had a blast putting it together, and got to bring back old memories playing it.
Now I just need money to get right so that I can actually afford to build things nicely. Haha.
-Bill
