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Happ trackball pin out? My bad, Imperial, is the one that I need.
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Hawk Daddy:
From my understanding it's not going to need any type of converter, it should just hook straight up to it.  I just have to figure out the correct way to hook it it, I plan on messing with it tonight, hooked to a computer monitor.  I'll post my results.

Hawk
Hawk Daddy:
Um yeah how about an imperial, cause I thought it was happ, guess what, I was wrong.

Hawk
Crowquill:
Looks like These Wico's use pretty much the opposite of Happ's pinouts. Those aren't the standard Wico/Imperials that you commonly see, though. I'm almost positive that they use the same pinout on the optical boards as Happ/Atari.

BTW, anyone else think it's odd that Wico's webpage is up still?

You could always go THIS ROUTE.

As far as wiring it to the harness goes, it's hard to say. Some JAMMA games used player 1's up,down,right,and left pins for trackball input, most had a seperate connector on the game PCB for it. Reading the game manual is probably the only way to tell. I'm still not sure how to connect the trackball to my Simpsons Bowling PCB since I can't find a manual or anyone that knows.
BobA:
Here is some color info for the pinouts on the wico/imperial trackball that I hacked about 5 years ago.

http://www.members.shaw.ca/bakaye/tballhack.htm

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: Crowquill on June 30, 2007, 05:28:10 am ---Looks like These Wico's use pretty much the opposite of Happ's pinouts. Those aren't the standard Wico/Imperials that you commonly see, though. I'm almost positive that they use the same pinout on the optical boards as Happ/Atari.

BTW, anyone else think it's odd that Wico's webpage is up still?

You could always go THIS ROUTE.

As far as wiring it to the harness goes, it's hard to say. Some JAMMA games used player 1's up,down,right,and left pins for trackball input, most had a seperate connector on the game PCB for it. Reading the game manual is probably the only way to tell. I'm still not sure how to connect the trackball to my Simpsons Bowling PCB since I can't find a manual or anyone that knows.

--- End quote ---

The multigame boards accept trackball input through the Player 2 wires of the JAMMA harness.  4 wires - 2 for X and 2 for Y....plus I assume the TB has to be hooked up to a +5V and ground.

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