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spacies:


Its simple stuff.

Remove your control panel and run a wire from each button to the pins I described above.

And then connect the earths.

DONE!!!!

You will need a soldering iron and some solder.

Take some pics of your control panel underside and your jamma connector

dndcollect:

mission acomplished. well almost. i had to solder the fire buttons from the jamma harness to the 1 up button.

my problem now is that in order to get into the dip switch menu, or service menu, well, thats the problem, i dont have a Service SW button.

Also, while there were wires to simply solder to the buttons as you mentioned, there is no wire for the service SW.

can i add one, if so what is involved?

i am a total newb, but im glad i was able to do this. in fact it wasent easy because the insides are all hacked up and the colors dont match, so i had to solder each one by one until i got it right. LOL! What a frickin puzzle.

i had a guy build me this machine for a real low price so i didnt and still dont care that its like that, it just was a pain the a**.

thanks for the help.

spacies:


Good work.

You need to connect wires for the test and service to get to the menu.

You can solder them straight to the JAMMA connector. Just be careful not to overheat it otherwise it will melt the plastic holding the little pin. It pays to 'tin' the wires with solder and leave a bit on the wire. Place it in position on the Jamma connector then briefly touch the soldering iron so it melts and sticks.

I guess if you were real careful you could just tape them there and disconnect when finished. Thats not the ideal solution but it will work. Just make sure they don't touch the other pins.

Bad advice really but to do that connect one end to the correct pin and then connect it to an earth. Either on a button or back on the connector.
Turn the machine on and it should enter the menu. Remove the wire from the earth and then touch it back to the earth to advance 1 step through the menu.

Same thing for your service button.
Remember, when you have made changes press Start 1 to save.

I hope you don't blow this thing up!



dndcollect:

before i do this i just want to confirm something, i can get the screen up that says I/O Test but I cant get past it.

Is that normal?  I want to make sure that I dont already have the capabilty of doing it.



spacies:


Oh, ok.

Thats the service button connected.
Did you try pushing it again to go a step back?

Try that first. But I don't think you can.

You need to have the Test button connected to pin 14 on the Parts side.

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