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Dual MAME & Jamma cab setup???
teknomedic:
Spoke with Andy at Ultimarc and he says that using the J-Pac and simply swapping the harness should work just fine. ((I did not ask about my "pass-through" idea for jamma+ buttons though so I think I'll just test that myself when the hardware arrives and report back))
Andy does suggest NOT swapping though because he said a lot of people that have done that either forget to power off before swapping... or plug in the jamma harness backwards which kills the J-Pac.. (not sure how people would do this myself... but I suppose MAME brings in a lot of noobs for arcades and I can see it happening)
I'm also speaking with someone that has installed two seperate jamma harnesses into his cab. He's going to take some pictures and explain how the dual hanress works with this MAME & Jamma setup... I guess it work very well and it's pretty safe to all the hardware. I'll report back when I learn more about that setup as well.
TK.
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--- Quote from: teknomedic on August 03, 2007, 01:49:57 pm ---I'm also speaking with someone that has installed two seperate jamma harnesses into his cab. He's going to take some pictures and explain how the dual hanress works with this MAME & Jamma setup... I guess it work very well and it's pretty safe to all the hardware. I'll report back when I learn more about that setup as well.
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Looking forwar to that!
yukonblaze:
I guess I am not the only pondering this question. What about the option of setting up the cab as jamma on one powerr switch and mame on another switch. That way you could easily switch jammas when you want to play them and then power them down and boot up mame. All the button, TB, and joysticks should be able to piggyback jamma/mame connection. This is only my theory, not to be taken as truth!!!
teknomedic:
--- Quote from: yukonblaze on August 03, 2007, 03:47:25 pm ---I guess I am not the only pondering this question. What about the option of setting up the cab as jamma on one powerr switch and mame on another switch. That way you could easily switch jammas when you want to play them and then power them down and boot up mame. All the button, TB, and joysticks should be able to piggyback jamma/mame connection. This is only my theory, not to be taken as truth!!!
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I see what you saying (I think, lol).... so I'd basically install two power supplies with maybe with a 3 position switch and two full jamma harnesses.... then wire everything up duplicate... then maybe use the 3 way switch for no power in the middle to anything... and maybe power up for Jamma and down for PC ???
It should work... but seems like a lot of work (I'm a lazy gamer over here, ;) )... I wonder though if there'd be any risk of power feedback coming from the "ON" power supply following the connections from the PS to the monitor down to the "Off" PS and into any boards attached??? :-\
teknomedic:
Another person contacted me about another way that works for him...
So I've got at least two methods that are currently setup and working in these other peoples cabs and it sounds like both are fairly safe for the hardware... I just have to wait for pictures and detailed descriptions.
Once I understand how they're setup I'll report both methods back here for anyone that's wondering.
TK.