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Author Topic: Fitting all your hardware into a exisiting cab?  (Read 1274 times)

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Fitting all your hardware into a exisiting cab?
« on: May 10, 2011, 10:23:43 pm »
So I picked up a Old semi good condition Tekken Tag cab a while ago, and I have been collecting parts and finally have a little free time to work on it.  My first goal was to get both mame pc, new jamma board, and so far just tekken tag, all wired up so I can switch back and forth.  So my first problem is, the jamma board is kinda big(6 slot) and I haven't found any real room on this cab.  Below are the two pictures from the front, underneath the control panel, and the coin slots.  I have removed the top back door where the monitor sits, but the bottom half doesn't seem to want to come off without having screws removed from inside.  So I'm kinda figuring out what would be the best way to mount the jamma, tekken tag(plus more boards in the future) and my mame pc (Motherboard, powersupply, harddrive).   The only way I could think of was to put the mame pc under the CP and the jamma in the coin slot hole(on the very top), then have the jamma boards go horizontally from left to right, hanging down.  My only concern was gravity, but not sure if it'd be forceful enough to to fall out of the jamma switcher.  Any thoughts?




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Re: Fitting all your hardware into a exisiting cab?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2011, 05:02:59 pm »
If jamma boards are inserted into a multi jamma switcher then hanging down from their connectors will more than likely have them fall out or worse get crooked and short something.  You should dismantle the back of your cab so you have full access and not try to work thru small openings.   If the jamma multi adapter cannot be mounted sideways or in some safe position you can get jamma harness extentons that have a finger board on one end and a jamma connector on the other so you can mount your boards in some secure location in your cab.