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DirtyDachshunds:

--- Quote from: javeryh on November 15, 2010, 05:00:33 pm ---What about NullDC?  Couldn't you just set up the emulator to run in your cab like MAME?

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That's exactly what I'm doing.  My computer was good 2 years ago, but is average by today's standards, and it plays all DC games great!

I honestly think this is the easiest route.  Just try to play it with NullDC...if it is slow go another route.

...or upgrade your PC on the cheap
Jack Burton:

--- Quote from: Mikezilla on November 15, 2010, 05:58:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jack Burton on November 15, 2010, 05:17:10 pm ---For something like a fighting game a console port is preferable to an emulator. 

Fighting game players care a lot about playing to a "standard" and usually the only accepted ones are arcade pcb's and console ports. 

The use of an emulator for this kind of game has a lot of unknown factors that would hurt the nature of competitive play.  You never know what sort of glitches, slowdown, input loss, or input delay could be involved. 

The DC version of Marvel is essential the golden standard and is the prime means of competitive play in the US, ahead of even the original NAOMI pcb. 
 
The second way and the one I recommend is to purchase a MC Cthulhu board and wire it up with a dreamcast cable.  With this you'll have a set of controls in your cab that can work on PC, PS3, and Dreamcast. 

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So would this MC cthulhu board interfere with my JPAC and existing controls? Or is it just some kind of adapter that ill have to switch everytime I want to go from MAME to DC?

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If all you want to do with your cab is play consoles and use MAME on a PC then the Cthulhu can replace the controls portion of your J-pac and you will still have all your old functionality without having to rewire controls.  The only thing you will have to do to MAME is remap the buttons to the inputs that will be used by the Cthulhu board.

If you want to preserve the ability of the J-pac to connect to a PCB then you could connect your controls to D-sub connectors, and put ends on both the J-pac end and the Cthulhu end.  When you want to switch you will only need to unplug the D-sub from one set of controls to the other.  There will be no need for rewiring.

This would also apply to your dreamcast controller PCB if you choose to do that.  You can use the DC pcb's and the J-pac together via the use of D-subs. 

shateredsoul:

--- Quote from: isucamper on November 15, 2010, 05:16:42 pm ---I've got it running on the makaron naomi emulator.  Need a little juice to get it going but it plays great.  Just have fun pressing the credit button 30000 times to unlock all the characters.

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yup! it works on demul too!

BurgerKingDiamond:
Yeah, I forgot about about PS3, it would allow MVSC2 plus some other good fighters, and you can use a Cthulhu PC/PS3 (which I have myself, and can recommend), which doesn't recquire soldering.

Or you can do the Multi Console Cthulhu (PS3/PS2/PC/Dreamcast through a PS2 to Dreamcast adapter, which I used aslo). Multi console is a little more complicated if you want to do something with quick connect rj-45 plugs for various system controls through one stick.

If this is your first time ever I suggest just buying the Multi Cthulhu and wiring it up for just PC/PS3 and you can always worry about the extra consoles later.

A quick rundown of wiring up controls:

each button and direction on a stick is connected to a microswitch. The miscroswitch has 3 prongs. One is GND/COMMON and one is for Normally Open (NO) and the last is for Normally Closed (NC). You will want your switches to be NO, so ignore the NC prongs, they will all be labeled. The Cthulhu board will come with screw connectors which will eliminate the need for soldering, and the pins will be documented in a seperate sheet of paper that comes with the unit (you can buy it from LizardLick.com).

Buy some femal quick connectors that will fit the size of the miscroswitch prongs, use these to connect all your wire to the microswithces. Connect all of the GND prongs on all the switches to EACHOTHER, then run one wire from any of the GND prongs to the gnd pin on the Cthulhu (or if you're doing a pad hack opend the plastic case and expose just the printed circuit board (PCB). you can see all the leads that make the buttons work. for each button there are two exposed metal leads that are seperated. when you press a button it connects the two leads and sends a signal to the game. For each button, one side is GND and one is the signal lead. you can tell which is GND becase it will be connected to all the other GNDS of the other buttons. just try to follow the leads... solder the GND wire to any GND on the pad, assuming you have a common GND pad. If you solder USE FLUX, or you will not get the wire to make a good connection to the pad. I know from experience.). Now run one wire from each other switche's NO prong to the appropriate pin on the Cthulhu (or pad). Remember that on a stick when you move it in the up direction you are actually pressing the down microswitch, and when you move left you are pressing the right microswitch etc... So reverse up/down and left/right.

If this doesn't make sense there are plenty of tutorials online with pics and stuff. But if you can understand this you should be able to get it done.
Mikezilla:
Thanks so much for the help BKD, everyone else too. Yeah, I understand that stuff pretty well. I wish I would have heard of this MC Cthulhu board before I got the JPAC, seems like it is a little more dynamic and can run more things. Oh well. I think Ill try to run the NullDC emulator(Im really only doing it for one game anyway) and see if my comp can handle it. If not, then I guess Ill get the Cthulhu board and try that out. Thanks for the input guys!  :cheers:
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