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| MarkH.:
I purchased an old arcade cabinet that has all the controllers already still in the system. there is no screen. the controls are all wired into 1 connector (as you can see in the pics on my site), I was wondering if there is a connector that this can go into, which can then go into a usb for a computer? If possible i would prefer not to replace all the controls. any help would be much appreciated! http://www.geocities.com/dude-ly/arcade mark dude-ly@rocketmail.com |
| sidekick:
you can pick up an encoder and rewire the controls... you may want to search around when it comes to deciding on a keyboard encoder the two most common places for keyboard encoders are: http://www.ultimarc.com http://groovygamegear.com what games do you plan to play for your system? You do realize that that CP is limited to 3 buttons per player, so if you plan on playing fighter games you may want to pick up 3 more buttons per player. |
| MarkH.:
--- Quote from: missi0ncontrol on November 14, 2006, 11:24:03 pm ---you can pick up an encoder and rewire the controls... you may want to search around when it comes to deciding on a keyboard encoder the two most common places for keyboard encoders are: http://www.ultimarc.com http://groovygamegear.com what games do you plan to play for your system? You do realize that that CP is limited to 3 buttons per player, so if you plan on playing fighter games you may want to pick up 3 more buttons per player. --- End quote --- do i have to rewire the controllers? i just got a message from somebody else saying to just buy one of these http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac.html and thats all i need. he didnt say too much else. i just want to have everything set out in my mind in how i want it before i go buying anything. thanks for the tip on the buttons. i never thought of that. |
| NickG:
In case that guy didn't PM you again: Yes. the jpac is all you should need, and you won't need to rewire them; just plug it into your jamma connector. If you decide to add more buttons they can be wired to the screw terminals. |
| CheffoJeffo:
Agreeing with NickG (assuming that is a JAMMA harness as it appears to be), except you will still have a monitor issue. Now, if you plan to use a PC monitor, then you can ignore the video-on on the JPac and things will be fine. If you want to use an arcade monitor, then you will need to connect your monitor to the JAMMA harness a video card that can drive the arcade monitor (standard arcade monitor runs at 15Khz, standard PC monitor at 31Khz) and will plug your VGA cable into the video-in on the JPac. More info can be found in the wiki and the Monitor forum. NOTE: The JPac has spots to connect buttons 4-6 (which aren't part of the JAMMA specification, so not on the harness), so don't worry about that. Cheers. |
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