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Vigo:
Ok, I want to finally get around to maming my machine. I will be using swappable control panels through an ipac and an arcadeVGA. I also want to preserve my cabinet as-is, and be able to turn it back into it's original form with ease. I want to be able to plug in the jamma board to play the original arcade game with the original control panel whenever I want.

So my plan is to keep the existing jamma harness, and to wire my arcadeVGA to a fingerboard VIA a breakout cable. I also want to wire the sound outputs using a powered computer speaker board into the fingerboard so it runs through the arcade speakers.

Then I plan to bypass the controls from the jamma harness, and wire directly from the ipac to the control panels I put in using spliced parallel ports. The coin door will be wired from the ipac into the fingerboard though.

Does this idea work? Have I thought this through enough?

My concerns are:
1) I probably forgot some critical thing that will make this idea not work at all

2) Will running a computer speaker board to the fingerboard work, especially since the one I am planning to use was made for 2.5 in speakers, and I have a 4 in and 6 in speaker in my cabinet. I don't think I can get any "boom" into the sound.

3) What about marquee lighting that is run through the jamma harness...can i still make it work, or do I need to mount a second flourescent light for when I use the mame part of my cab?

Any input is appreciated! Thanks
BobA:
Since you are keeping the cabinet intact why not use a jpac and the arcadevga board.   Jpac plugs right in instead of using a finger board and an ipac.
Vigo:
for a couple reasons,

first, I owned my ipac even before I had my cabinet, and I want to avoid buying anything else since I am broke.

Second, it is a four player cab, and I have an ipac4, so running my controls in just a jpac would mean that I would have to splice into my original (and hard to find) Trog harness. I want to keep my original harness for just use with my trog machine, and be able to put my original control panel in at any point for using only when I am playing Trog. (the harness has a quick disconnect built into it.) I want to be able to put in my custom swappable control panels for playing mame.

Does that make since or am I missing something? I am under the impression that the controls have to be part of the harness for the jpac.
CheffoJeffo:
I'm with BobA -- sell your IPac4 and get a JPac and IPac2. If your cab is JAMMA, then you shouldn't need to hack your harness at all (or at least not more than you are already proposing).

Cheers
Vigo:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on July 21, 2006, 07:23:59 pm ---I'm with BobA -- sell your IPac4 and get a JPac and IPac2. If your cab is JAMMA, then you shouldn't need to hack your harness at all (or at least not more than you are already proposing).

Cheers

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I am going with ipac so I don't have to hack into my harness...I want custom controls, and I am capable of doing my own wiring to a fingerboard so I can just plug in to the existing harness.
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