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Arcade Legends 1 conversion questions
pinlink:
OK the plan for this evening is to go buy an old PC to hook up to the Arcade Legends to see if it will display on the monitor. I will just hook up the new PC via VGA connector to the USBlinx board, turn it on and cross my fingers. If the Arcade Legends monitor boots to desktop I will be pretty pumped and start loading up the Roms on the PC. Hopefully the controls on the Arcade Legends will work when I hook it up? Am I missing anything? Thanks again everyone for the help and suggestions on this.
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: pinlink on September 05, 2017, 12:12:13 pm ---OK the plan for this evening is to go buy an old PC to hook up to the Arcade Legends to see if it will display on the monitor. I will just hook up the new PC via VGA connector to the USBlinx board, turn it on and cross my fingers. If the Arcade Legends monitor boots to desktop I will be pretty pumped and start loading up the Roms on the PC. Hopefully the controls on the Arcade Legends will work when I hook it up? Am I missing anything? Thanks again everyone for the help and suggestions on this.
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In the repair guide i posted it mentions the controls are plugged into the ps2 port of the PC so it sounds like it uses a standard keyboard encoder.
you will still probably have to configure the controls.
if you get it working fire up notepad then move the controllers and pres the buttons to see what "keys" are being sent to the system.
pinlink:
On the Arcade Legends computer, there is nothing plugged into the ps2 keyboard port. Just a connector plugged into the mouse port. There are 2 USBs ports, maybe that is what is controlling the control panel? Not sure.
Drnick:
Where does the cable plugged into the mouse socket go?, The manual said that Mouse is not used at all.
If the controller comes off of USB and isnt a standard HID USB device then you are almost guaranteed to be going to need some drivers. You might get lucky though. Looking at the spare parts it shows the usb interface (USBLINX) as having jamma on the other side.
So you could throw in a new PC and roll your own jamma connector to interface with the controls. Not gonna be a simple task though. I would try and get the original board back up and running personally. I say this because even if you roll your own jamma how are you getting the VGA to the monitor, It looks like that is all handled by the interface board. so you would need a Jpac or similar really. Actually a Jpac would be your best bet for a replacement PC because it replaces the USBLinx entirely.
nitrogen_widget:
That could be your problem.
that mouse port is not to be used.
Only the keyboard port. that connects everything but the trackball.
Trackball is using usb port.
it may not be booting because you have the keyboard plugged into the mouse port.
I think you really should take a look at the troubleshooting guide i posted it isn't that technical and provides some step by step instructions.