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| Level42:
Hey Fazz, welcome aboard. I am just a little ahead of you, so I recognize the "phase" you're in ;) I also bought a Jamma cab. It's UK built (Playscene Special). Yes the J-Pac is a must have, and if you can afford the cash, get the ArcadeVGA. I don't have it (yet) and it's a bit of a pain to set-up a regular VGA card using DOS. I'm going to give it one more try with a TNT2 card, if that won't work properly, I'll buy an ArcadeVGA. You should be glad with all the US-based sites, I'm from Holland and I know only a handful of people doing the same thing here, and know exactly one Dutch site. Not a problem for me, my English is good enough to manage ;) And indeed, plenty of great people on this board willing to help... One important thing: double-double check that you put the J-Pac the right way onto the Jamma connector. Mine was already prepared for a J-Pac, in that the guy who sold it removed the +12V wires from the connector. (As advised bij Ultimarc). But you indicate you stilll want to be able to play "real" jamma-pcb's, then you cannot remove the +12V. My jamma connector ad a hand-written sticker on one side saying "component side" and this is indeed still true for the J-pac :) I don't agree with eggedd2k that all frontends are a waste of time. WHen you need to use DOS (old PC !) then you need front-ends and yes you need quite some configuring. There are some pre-configured install discs available on sites. I've tried three with various results, none of them work exactly like I want to, but they do give you a good start. But with the ArcadeVGA, you can run windows and Mame32 but you always will need a normal keyboard to use Mame32, and I don't think you want that on a original Jamma cab. Look here for some more info: http://www.ultimarc.com/avgainst.html |
| ultramagnus:
strange, i thought all dutch people spoke english as well as dutch |
| Level42:
Yup, most do, but not all of them, and in different levels. Not everyone dares to actualy write stuff.... |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: fazz on August 22, 2005, 06:23:37 pm ---Im now confused as to which verdion of mame to use, ive used mame32 before but from what i read in an arcade cabinet i should be using a dos version of mame and a frontend. This sounds a bit complicated, what do you recomend for a newbie, will mame 32 work or is is not compatible with the arcade monitor. --- End quote --- On my first [EDIT: and subsequent] emulation cabinet with an arcade monitor, I used MAMEWah over MAME32. I never seemed to get the resolutions for the various games set properly for my monitor (either got vertical roll or distortion, etc.). So, whenever I load a game using MAMEWah and the resolutions are out of whack, I exit and fireup MAME32. Using the properties for that game, I fine-tune to get the best results. Then, when I go back into MAMEWah, it comes up beautifully. I found this an easy way to get the best of both worlds -- the sharpness of a great frontend with the configuration ease and familiarity of MAME32. Cheers. |
| Level42:
Hah ! Now THAT's a brilliant idea ! :) But will only work with a PC monitor or ArcadeVGA... |
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