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is there a jamma board with sd reader for mame?
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yotsuya:

--- Quote from: jimmer on September 02, 2014, 07:21:29 pm ---
What are you looking for that you can't do with a PC that autoruns a specific game in MAME ?

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Just sticking once custom PCB in a JAMMA cabinet and having it work like that, without a separate computer or encoder, perhaps?
AndyWarne:

Motherboards with JAMMA on-board are readily available in the coin-op trade. We have thought about reselling them a few times.

But we have not owing to various reasons: They are really expensive, and they are always a few years behind current PC technology and are low-powered units. Using a J-PAC and a standard micro-ATX board is much cheaper and more versatile.
matsadona:
I have two of these boards, that have a compact flash drive. It is based on a DOS frontend that can be tweaked to add other ROMs.
The hardware is really old and weak, but upgrading the CPU and RAM makes it a little better, but in reality it only runs the classics without flaws.
The concept is really great though, with a standard PC motherboard in the bottom, and then a Jamma I/O board on top.



IAmDotorg:

--- Quote from: AndyWarne on September 03, 2014, 04:15:31 am ---
Motherboards with JAMMA on-board are readily available in the coin-op trade. We have thought about reselling them a few times.

But we have not owing to various reasons: They are really expensive, and they are always a few years behind current PC technology and are low-powered units. Using a J-PAC and a standard micro-ATX board is much cheaper and more versatile.

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Here's a free product idea for you -- a mounting frame that has the J-PAC and mounts a Micro-ATX board. The USB headers are all standard on them, so in theory you'd be able to just screw the MicroATX board onto it, plug a jumper between the JPAC and the mobo's USB2 header, patch the VGA across and give it power. For bonus points, add an interface to the J-PAC that can be wired into the ATX power button connectors, too, so you can power on/shut-down with a shifted button combo or something.

nitrogen_widget:

--- Quote from: IAmDotorg on September 02, 2014, 03:49:36 pm ---Most of the boards are pretty lousy and underpowered. You'd probably get just as good (if not better) results using a Raspberry Pi, a J-PAC, and a $10 HDMI->VGA adapter.

You'd be looking at maybe $120 or something, all up. That's less than a lot of the xxx-in-1 JAMMA boards, and if the Pi is too slow someday, you can replace it with a $100 PC.

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Less than that.
depending on what game & how many inputs it needs.
you can wire the controls directly to the GPIO pins & you can fit a console only OS that autoboots one game on a 1gb sd card.

If you use an old crt TV pi has the RCA out.
If you use an LCD panel you can use an HDMI to DVI adaptor.

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