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| krick:
--- Quote from: penjuin on January 24, 2005, 01:26:20 am ---...I wish to somehow plug the game into the pc inside and (possibly using special software) have it show up on the monitor (the replacement for the arcade screen) and have the controls that i have built work with the game. I have searched around and can't find much... --- End quote --- You aren't finding much because it can't be done the way you want. There is no "special software". If you don't have a JAMMA cabinet with an arcade monitor, the only thing you *might* be able to do is feed the video output from the JAMMA game through some sort of converter that will output VGA so you can display it on your computer monitor. Then you'd have to make a custom harness to connect the JAMMA connector on the JAMMA game to your I-PAC4. Nothing will ever connect to your PC. If you really want to play both MAME and newer JAMMA games on your cabinet at the same time, you need to have a JAMMA wired cabinet and an arcade monitor combined with some sort of JAMMA switching device like the Multi-JAMMA I mentioned. Then you'd have to change your PC configuration to make it compatible with JAMMA input and output. This usually means an ArcadeVGA video card combined with a J-PAC encoder/JAMMA interface card. |
| penjuin:
ok thanks i get it now. Maybe one day ill have a go at the converter one day ;) |
| paigeoliver:
Also, a "rom dumper" is perfectly legal. An EPROM is simply media, just like a floppy disk. You can order reader/programmers from many different vendors. |
| penjuin:
--- Quote from: krick on January 24, 2005, 01:45:15 am ---...Nothing will ever connect to your PC... --- End quote --- I believe you are wrong krick. but first, can anyone help me with these few questions about jamma? * Is a JAMMA board self contained, that is, has its own processor, video encoder, etc? * Are JAMMA connectors analog (bar the video)? I think the answers to these questions are both yes, but i just want to make sure. The reason i want to know is [if these questions are both yes] that there may be a relatively simple way to connect a jamma card to a pc and use any keyboard controls (including kbrd encoder controls) that you have specified. Im gonna need a bit o help though ;) |
| Thenasty:
I'm confused to whats going on here but here is what i will say. JAMMA is like an IDE CABLE When Games are made, they make the connections JAMMA to make everything easier to connect and disconnect for another game. Just like if you swap an IDE HARD DRIVE, you use the same CABLE(JAMMA). Games are like the HARD DRIVES, they make it so you can use that same setup(JAMMA) in your cabinet. When game are made, it is a COMPLETE BOARD, it works by itself just provide a power supply and a monitor and of course the JOYSTICKS and BUTTONS. It has its own VIDEO CONTROLLER, ENCODER for the CONTROLS(I don't want to call it Keyboard Encoder) etc... Now my question is, Why do you want to connect the JAMMA BOARD to a PC ? it already works by itself. If your intentions is to usee a VGA Monitor for your JAMMA BOARDS, then find a converter RGB to VGA. Why not just use a TV ? there is an encoder RGB to NTSC. |
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