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| JoeB:
--- Quote from: dgame on June 11, 2012, 02:42:35 pm ---The joysticks will be two Ultrastik 360s with standard springs and octagonal restrictors. I made a fighter stick with this configuration and it works well for me. --- End quote --- Let me know how that works out for you. The U360 is based on the Sanwa JLW. Most of these astro based candy cabs are designed to hold a Sanwa JLF. The JLW is pin compatible with most USA based joysticks (Happ) - JLF is not. JLF joysticks connect to the harness using a single connector that looks like a small molex connector with multi-pin. JLW has a wire going directly to each switch rather than using a PCB. JLF joysticks are also mounted very close to the nearest buttons -- too close for a JLW to fit. Let me know if it works for you, I'd love to do the same. |
| dgame:
I've been looking at the joystick diagrams and depending on how the bottom plate is it may be tricky. Par for the course in this hobby though. :banghead: I have the usual cadre of cutting and drilling tools to modify the mounts if space permits. We'll see how it goes. Update: The cab has a JAMMA harness hacked into the 001 JVS loom. The RCA stereo audio input was chopped, coupled, and joined to JAMMA mono. I uncoupled the cabinet's stereo input wires and connected a long stereo 3.5mm audio cable. I plugged the 3.5mm cable in my laptop and turned on the cab. Now it has amplified stereo audio and the volume control under the control panel works. Only things left to wire-up are the control panel and the monitor chassis when they get here. The video is VGA Cable, the U360 joysticks/buttons are USB, and now the audio is 3.5mm. :droid |
| JoeB:
--- Quote from: dgame on June 14, 2012, 01:26:46 am ---Now it has amplified stereo audio and the volume control under the control panel works. --- End quote --- I'm confused, what are you using for amplification? The sound card in your laptop?? If so, does that provide enough juice for those speakers? Search eBay for "mini amplifier lepai" that's what I use between the sound card of my PC + candy cab speakers. Very nice and clean with no distortion (could get really loud too!) --- Quote from: dgame on June 14, 2012, 01:26:46 am ---Only things left to wire-up are the control panel and the monitor chassis when they get here. The video is VGA Cable, the U360 joysticks/buttons are USB, and now the audio is 3.5mm. :droid --- End quote --- Cool.. please show pics once you get it. :) |
| dgame:
I'm using the cabinet's built-in amplifier and stereo speakers. The way I got it was with the RCA audio (line level) inputs hacked off and combined into mono and connected to the JAMMA (mono audio) part of the harness. I've read where this is a solution to get louder/better sound from JAMMA boards in the Blast City Cabinet. Since I'm using a PC I decoupled the inputs and put a stereo 3.5mm audio cable in. So now the cabinet can receive (and amplify) stereo audio from anything with a 3.5mm headphone jack. The laptop was just an audio source to test the rewiring I did. The audio amplifier is inside the cabinet's power supply, and the volume control is under the control panel. This thing is loud. :droid Luckily the cabinet's speakers are still good although the speaker grills have been pushed in on both sides. I'm going to try to tap them out and back into position when I take the cabinet apart. I've read they're a pain to install (glued in) so hopefully the pushed in sections just snap back out and into place when I hit it with a wedge of wood or something. |
| JoeB:
--- Quote from: dgame on June 18, 2012, 04:09:47 pm ---I'm using the cabinet's built-in amplifier and stereo speakers. ... The audio amplifier is inside the cabinet's power supply, and the volume control is under the control panel. This thing is loud. :droid --- End quote --- My SEGA NAC still has the original PSU inside, with the volume control + degauss button .. I wasn't aware that you can use the amp while disabling the rest of the PSU! This is important because if you don't have a load on the PSU, while it's on, it will burn it out! (common problem with people running MAME in their cabs, and using the old JAMMA PSU to power some lights in the cab with no PCB.. the PSU's burned out!) --- Quote from: dgame on June 18, 2012, 04:09:47 pm ---Luckily the cabinet's speakers are still good although the speaker grills have been pushed in on both sides. --- End quote --- damn, sorry to hear that. Is it metallic? If so, it shouldn't be too difficult to fix. |
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