My MAME cabinet proposal

[Vicked]

I have a NEO GEO 2 slot cabinet with working screen and controls. The motherboard however doesn't seem to be working.

I have been doing ALOT of reading and I now have a fairly good idea of how I'm going to turn this thing into a MAME cabinet. I want to leave it so that I can turn it back into a standard cabinet in the future (I might build my own MAME cab in future).

Here is my proposal, please provide me with some feedback/pointers as I want to get this right first time:

1. In order to be able to use the cab again as a standard NEO GEO cab, create a JAMMA to MVS interface following these instructions (http://www.hardmvs.com/html/jammaAdapt.htm).
2. Use an ArcadeVGA and J-Pac to drive the monitor and controls.
3. I'm not sure of exactly how to power the monitor, I've read about an isolation transformer but I don't know how it works. I would appreciate some help here. If I'm using the J-Pac can I simply power the monitor using the cabinet power on switch?

Hope you guys can take some time to give me some feedback, I can't wait to get started on my cab

[RayB]

Umm... If this cabinet is already working, then the monitor is already powered. So don't go messing around with that stuff. The most you'll want to do is disconnect the power supply from receiving AC electricity.

Then just add a PC and JPAC...