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Greenman:
Time to get building again.   ;D

I have recently acquired an original Midway Ms. Pacman PCB and and also found in the garage a CRT TV that will need a mod to accept SRGB...so the two main items are now in my possession.  I can probably fabricate almost everything else so it looks like I can FINALLY make a dedicated arcade cabinet....a MS. Pacman!! 

This is what a Cabaret Ms. Pacman looks like in the wild (circa 1981):


No computer, no raspberry pi, no LED TV.  We're going old school.

I will document everything here including the CRT TV mod etc. 

Photos to come.

bobbyb13:
Nice looking cabinet!

Does is still have all the guts?

Greenman:
I wish it was that easy!!

All I have is the PCB. I'll be making everything else.

Midway Ms. Pacman PCB



CRT TV to be modded:

Zebidee:
Make it into a cocktail? There are plans if interested.

If your PCB has the voltage regulator, I think i may want up to 7v.

Is that a VR chip (3 legs) I see at top right?

The VR regulated to ~5v but has a small voltage drop across of 1.5-2.0v. So you may need to feed it a little more juice.

I have a Pacman PCB too, but someone with more direct experience running it in cabs may butt in here and confirm/deny etc.

Mike A:
If you are going to scratch build a cab and you want to use that PCB, your smartest bet is to wire the cab for JAMMA and use a standard arcade power supply.

Then you can get a JAMMA to Ms Pacman adapter.

That way you can also use other PCBs later on.

Or even a pandora's box emulator, or Pi, or PC.

It would be the simplest and most versatile thing to do.

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