I finished today...
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Reorganized the workbench in the Garage. Put some shelving up for the stereo and O-scope. The JAMMA test rig I will be building will go in the back left. Rest of my equipment is not see. It's in the desk drawers and my 12-drawer rollaway to the right of the desk.
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Same here. I've been working on the dinning room table for 3 years now. I have an extra room I could easily make into a work area but it's hard to watch my daughter during the day if I'm in that room so for now the dinning room table works.
Lemony Vengeance
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After much lamentation, many late nights, a week off from work and one fried circuit board later, I finally finished this massive task!
BEHOLD, My MC CTHULHU ULTIHACK!
I made this for SniperElite from the forum. He wanted to be able to use it outside the cabinet as well so in order to do that, I needed to wire the sticks up to work with a separate port on the Hack box.
DB-25 ports to the rescue!! All controls are being pumped from the Jamma Edge as well as these ports
All buttons map to where they should, even the guide buttons!
The various console cables will connect to the box VIA RJ-45 (ethernet) ends, protected by NEUTRIK Ethercon connectors. The Buttons control the Guide/home buttons when running in arcade mode.
His cabinets don't have a 2 Player control panel so I had to improvise. I wired a control panel harness connector to a DB-25 Female connector.
This has been a huge undertaking and I'm glad that while I was able to put this together, it's finally over! Now to test cables for 8-10 consoles! :S
BEHOLD, My MC CTHULHU ULTIHACK!
I made this for SniperElite from the forum. He wanted to be able to use it outside the cabinet as well so in order to do that, I needed to wire the sticks up to work with a separate port on the Hack box.
DB-25 ports to the rescue!! All controls are being pumped from the Jamma Edge as well as these ports
All buttons map to where they should, even the guide buttons!
The various console cables will connect to the box VIA RJ-45 (ethernet) ends, protected by NEUTRIK Ethercon connectors. The Buttons control the Guide/home buttons when running in arcade mode.
His cabinets don't have a 2 Player control panel so I had to improvise. I wired a control panel harness connector to a DB-25 Female connector.
This has been a huge undertaking and I'm glad that while I was able to put this together, it's finally over! Now to test cables for 8-10 consoles! :S
Lemony Vengeance
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nice job lem, looks like it was a pain in the butt
The pics I put up on my FB page are more detailed and have a more in depth write-up.. the internal view will make your head spin.
gabe
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I'm late to the party on this... But I'm very attracted to this setup. How are you powering the amp? Are you just running the AC adapter outside of the cab and plugging it into the wall? Have you had any interference or other quality issues?
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Nothing special but I finally got around to changing all the batteries in my cps2 games, all but 2 had original batteries so I was really worried about them dieing but the batteries cost like $60 so I kept putting it off. Anway they all work and now have brand new batteries 
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Nothing special but I finally got around to changing all the batteries in my cps2 games, all but 2 had original batteries so I was really worried about them dieing but the batteries cost like $60 so I kept putting it off. Anway they all work and now have brand new batteries
EPIC!
I just completed a few minutes ago a hack job on my MVS cable in my cab. It originally did audio via a 3 port connector (Jamma 10, Jamma L, Ground) to both speakers, so I cut the cables near the speakers into a proper 4 port female connector (R+, R-, L-, L+) and then wired the ends that connected to the Jamma edgeinto two separate 4 port male connectors for Jamma audio (Jamma 10, Linked, Jamma L, Linked) and MVS audio (Jamma 10, Ground Linked, Linked, Jamma L). Sadly some of the wiring is loose in its metal prongs due to my crappy hacking skills, but it's holding still for now and I no longer have to worry about blowing out amps with my Naomi plugged in via the Capcom IO
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After a long time gathering all the pieces needed. It's finally time for some Arkanoid Return co-op madness. The kids love it !
what kind of spinners did you end up using?
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After a long time gathering all the pieces needed. It's finally time for some Arkanoid Return co-op madness. The kids love it !
Hey dude, what's the pinout for the spinner? I have 2 spinners and never connected them yet.
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Awesome codecrank, would love to have a spinner set up some day. I've got a couple ball and paddle games and I'm sure they'd be much better using a spinner. (Don't know if I'd be any better though. :})
The spinners are really nice good job CC! I've always wanted a trackball control panel myself, SEGA did make an official one (*correction* for Virtua Golf) but I believe its pretty rare. Not to mention I'd have to beg BIGTIME to print me a custom CPO for it.
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Thanks guys 
Finding Semeitsu LS-29s is almost impossible, so I used common taito spinners. Although I was lucky enough to find genuine taito optical coupler PCBs, the Happ or Wico ones work fine too.
As for the pinout, assuming this pin order
1. Left
2. 5v
3. Gnd
4. Right
I just scored this http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=254667 for my next project. always wanted play some proper Rampart or marble madness
Finding Semeitsu LS-29s is almost impossible, so I used common taito spinners. Although I was lucky enough to find genuine taito optical coupler PCBs, the Happ or Wico ones work fine too.
As for the pinout, assuming this pin order
1. Left
2. 5v
3. Gnd
4. Right
I just scored this http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=254667 for my next project. always wanted play some proper Rampart or marble madness
Big +1 for Marble Madness! That's the #1 game I wish I had a trackball for, of course I also love Centipede and Millipede (I owned an original Millipede woody at one point) but I wouldn't tate my monitor (even if I had the panel/ball) just to play thos.
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I love marble madness, man. You know what else is fun with trackball? Cabal!
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Thanks guys
Finding Semeitsu LS-29s is almost impossible, so I used common taito spinners. Although I was lucky enough to find genuine taito optical coupler PCBs, the Happ or Wico ones work fine too.
As for the pinout, assuming this pin order
1. Left
2. 5v
3. Gnd
4. Right
I just scored this http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=254667 for my next project. always wanted play some proper Rampart or marble madness
Very cool, this is by far the nicest thing I've seen you post! Big props! Are these compatible with Tempest? I don't think Tempest is jamma
Kid Panda
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Very cool, this is by far the nicest thing I've seen you post! Big props! Are these compatible with Tempest? I don't think Tempest is jamma
Not only is tempest not jamma, it uses a vector monitor.
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Oh that's right! Damn, I can't believe I forgot about that. Well, there's always I-pac/J-Pac, with that in mind you could play Breakquest and Ricochet, both PC spinner games that play incredible.
Talking about Spinners, I have a couple Tornado spinners, must be seen to be believed, these things will spin for a minute before they stop, fantastic engineering!
Talking about Spinners, I have a couple Tornado spinners, must be seen to be believed, these things will spin for a minute before they stop, fantastic engineering!
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