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Sephroth57:
i never saw or heard of sonic championship and im a big sonic fan, do you have any screen shots of it in action on your cab? cool marquee btw
pcdoctor:
I wasn't sure what part of the board to use for a ground.
I did think of that but got frustrated.
My monitor stopped working in my Sonic Champsionship.
I'm trying to sell my Sonic Championship if you are interested.
You will need a medium resolution or multisync arcade monitor that support 25khz.
I'll try to find a website with pictures.
I also just figured instead of hiring an arcade tech to fix the monitor, that I'd just convert it to a PS2 cabinet.
Here are some Sonic Championship pictures.
(It's a Sonic fighting game by the way.)
Known as Sonic Championship in the U.S. and Sonic The Fighters in Japan.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9624
http://www.sonichq.org/games/index/championship/
--- Quote from: abrannan on January 27, 2004, 08:27:54 am ---Forgive me if I'm asking an insutling question, but from your original posting it's not clear. Did you also connect the ground to your button or is there only one wire at this point?
Also for drilling holes in the PCBs, go to a hobby store (Model railroads an RC cars and miniature wargaming type place, not a Michael's type place) and pick up a "pin vise", it's a small drill that will allow you to make holes just large enough for 22ga. wire to poke through. You'll see little silver circles on the leads of your pad, and that's where you want to drill. One piece of advice for the pin vise, put the drill bit as far into the handle as you can, leaving only about 1/4" sticking out or else those bits break very easily.
Soldering is an acquired skill, and it really doesn't take that much practice to get good at it. I'd recommend getting one of those pre-drilled prototype boards at Radio Shack, strip a bunch of small sections of wire, and practice soldering them into the holes on the proto board. After 25 or so, you really start to get the hang of it. I learned the hard way, going through 5 cheap PSx controllers to get two good ones for my cab.
Just my opinions, and they're worth exactly what you paid for them.
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Dave_K.:
Have you tried putting your monitor into 15khz mode (and using a dreamcast or ps2)? You should try this before dumping the monitor and replacing with a TV. Also you should not connect a PC sound/amp to arcade speakers because of the impedence mismatch (will probably sound like crap too). I recommended a cheap/small home stereo amp (on ebay), it will sound great with the cab's original 8ohm speakers.
Check out the "Game Consoles" section on this site for more info on interfacing DC PS2 and speakers.
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml
pcdoctor:
This is a medium resolution only monitor.
It's made by ?
Can't remember the company name or model no.
It's not a Neotec or Wells Gardner monitor.
I know the name of the manufacturer if I hear it.
Believe me, I did all the research on the model number after I got the machine.
Most of the model 2 games used medium resolution stuff only.
I think my speakers at 4 ohms so I should be ok.
My speakers have the following written on them.
40 13W-26W.
I assume the 40 means 4 Ohms.
It doens't have the funny ohm symbol.
I saw the info about the Radio Shack amp.
I printed it out this morning for future reference.
Do you think my speakers are 4ohms or is the 40 just a concidence.
I couldn't find anything about the speaker rating in my VF2 manual.
I started to use real speakers and have them mounted on the side and get a 200 watt receiver.
--- Quote from: Dave_K. on January 27, 2004, 12:44:45 pm ---Have you tried putting your monitor into 15khz mode (and using a dreamcast or ps2)? You should try this before dumping the monitor and replacing with a TV. Also you should not connect a PC sound/amp to arcade speakers because of the impedence mismatch (will probably sound like crap too). I recommended a cheap/small home stereo amp (on ebay), it will sound great with the cab's original 8ohm speakers.
Check out the "Game Consoles" section on this site for more info on interfacing DC PS2 and speakers.
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml
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Dave_K.:
I forgot this is a VF2 cab, yeah those monitors are med res only. Oh well. As for the speakers, its probably 4 ohms (I bet the O is supposed to be ohms...maybe cheaper than getting an ohm symbol to silk screen ;D). Should be ok to use with a cheap pc amp then.
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