Virtua Fighter cab to MAME cab help

[Tzatziki]

ok guyz here we go...

im a real noob on these kind of things and all the help and different oppinions I can get the better.

I have bought a Vitua Fighter cabinet on ebay for

[Apollo]

Firstly welcome to the forum and the wonderful world of MAME.
Secondly you have one awesome cab there, well done you got a bargain really.
Thirdly, please please please read the FAQ and search the forum and look at the examples --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- you ask all your questions ( too late now I guess ). All your questions have already been answered many times on this forum you need to do more investigation.

[Tzatziki]

Firstly welcome to the forum and the wonderful world of MAME.
Secondly you have one awesome cab there, well done you got a bargain really.
Thirdly, please please please read the FAQ and search the forum and look at the examples --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type-- you ask all your questions ( too late now I guess ). All your questions have already been answered many times on this forum you need to do more investigation.

thank you for welcoming me, I will read the FAQ now, sorry, but are u sure all the questions are answered there?

Yeah, I also think I got a bargain, had to travel 1.30 hours to get the cab, but it was well worth it!

*edit* which FAQ do u mean?

[xar256]

Maybe not all you're questions aren't in the FAQ, but many are covered there.  Use the search function of the forums, and you'll find tons of info for everything else.

Xar256

*edit* Links to the FAQ are in the 2nd sticky post in this forum.

[Tzatziki]

I thought my questions where specific, are they all answered? I mean can anyone tell me which wires to disconnect from the arcade and connect them to ipac? thats the main question

[originalself]

well as far as pluging in the ipac open op the control panel this is where you are going to be doing your ipac wireing to the buttons/sticks. As for the monitor i have no experience with a non jamma game and cant help you their. Butifull cab by the way and enjoy maming it  

[Tzatziki]

Ive seen that many people have Virtua Fighter Cabs on this forum, anyone reading this that has one of these cabs and has converted it to MAME please leave a message, contact me via private message or my email

thanks

[monkeybomb]

did you try www.arcadecontrols.com ?  there's a ton of good info there.  They have a step by step newbie guide that should help.

[Apollo]

LMAO. He he nice.

[pointdablame]

lol, this board is getting pretty good at hazing the new guys and giving them grief (I'm included in this, so I'm allowed to say it )

Tzatziki, your questions are most certainly NOT specific to your cabinet.  Regardless of cabinet, the process of converting to mame is the same (in a general sense).

Ultimarc.com will give you a lot of info on your Ipac, including how to wire it.  Your cab isn't JAMMA, so I'm not familiar with your wiring.

My best advice is to read, read read.  All of your questions have been answered.  Read the forum, arcadecontrols.com, and all the example pages you can.  I guarantee you'll answer your questions and figure out things you were wondering about.

So as not to just tell you to read though, I'll try to answer your questions really quickly.

1) You'll know which wire to hook up because it will be corresponding.  player 1, button 1 goes to P1,B1 on Ipac.. simple.  Soldering iron isn't required.  Use quick disconnects and the screw terminals on the ipac.
2)each button has a wire to the ipac.
3)depends on what games you want to run. READ READ READ, this comes up everyday.  You don't "need" an arcade VGA, but its the easiest way
4) Not needed, may be handy though.
5) um... MAME is the emulator.... so ..... Mame is the best mame to use
6) this is like the same question as 1 and 2. Read up man.
7) One power supply is plenty, but it will depend on what you have in your cab.
A few different optons. Read the software forum
9) The Ipac doesn't, but MAME can.
10) hack amplified PC speakers or just use PC speakers.
11) You don't really "need" to keep anything.  Keep the monitor if it works and thats what you want, and the isolation transformer (if applicable).  Game board, PSU, wiring, etc can be taken out if you'd like.

Now get to reading, there will be a quiz tomorrow

[Tzatziki]

lol, this board is getting pretty good at hazing the new guys and giving them grief (I'm included in this, so I'm allowed to say it )

Tzatziki, your questions are most certainly NOT specific to your cabinet.  Regardless of cabinet, the process of converting to mame is the same (in a general sense).

Ultimarc.com will give you a lot of info on your Ipac, including how to wire it.  Your cab isn't JAMMA, so I'm not familiar with your wiring.

My best advice is to read, read read.  All of your questions have been answered.  Read the forum, arcadecontrols.com, and all the example pages you can.  I guarantee you'll answer your questions and figure out things you were wondering about.

So as not to just tell you to read though, I'll try to answer your questions really quickly.

1) You'll know which wire to hook up because it will be corresponding.  player 1, button 1 goes to P1,B1 on Ipac.. simple.  Soldering iron isn't required.  Use quick disconnects and the screw terminals on the ipac.
2)each button has a wire to the ipac.
3)depends on what games you want to run. READ READ READ, this comes up everyday.  You don't "need" an arcade VGA, but its the easiest way
4) Not needed, may be handy though.
5) um... MAME is the emulator.... so ..... Mame is the best mame to use
6) this is like the same question as 1 and 2. Read up man.
7) One power supply is plenty, but it will depend on what you have in your cab.
A few different optons. Read the software forum
9) The Ipac doesn't, but MAME can.
10) hack amplified PC speakers or just use PC speakers.
11) You don't really "need" to keep anything.  Keep the monitor if it works and thats what you want, and the isolation transformer (if applicable).  Game board, PSU, wiring, etc can be taken out if you'd like.

Now get to reading, there will be a quiz tomorrow

thank you  

[Tzatziki]

ive hit a snag, from what other people have said there might be a problem with the monitor, its a 25hz monitor. I havent checked yet if theres a switch to switch it to 15hz but will do tommorow. If there isnt what graphic card supports 25hz monitors?

[brained]

Well if it's 25khz the it should be easy to use on a vga card, I think. Try asking that same question at the monitor forum, you can find a lot of help there!

btw, welcome aboard