first post, kind of overwelming perhaps, sorry for that
hello all, let me start with a short introduction;
i'm ief, 37 years of age and live in the netherlands.
a couple of weeks ago i was browsing some fleemarket where i foud a snes 'topfighter'
arcade joystick,
it was 15 euro's (well, 25 originaly, got her to go down, bargain huh) and i thought i'd take a shot,
thinking it might be this well sought after piece of history or....guys like u came to mind,
(i had heard about mame and stuff at least....
) and well, naively as i am/ was/ am...i thought i could make a buck or use it myself for my ps2 or whatever.
long story short, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of market for it so i got thinking about what to do with it then, that's were mame kicked in and know, here i am and not only is the topfighter untoughed, sitting in it's box, it's replaced since i now have...........
this: (sorry for the bad pic)
might be nice to put a 'guess that game' in
have been reading for weeks now and well, my mind begins to hurt cause of all the options i seem to have so
i thought i'd start a topic here and see if u are able to point me in the right direction.
so, what do i have?
a reasonably ugly cab and if i informed myself well it seems to be a jamma+ one and alltough i find it rather ugly
AND it has no marquee ( sigh) it is kind of growing on me allready and somehow it looks familiar but can't put my finger on where i should have seen it, let alone played.
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now for my options, it seems that i can go 2 routes, forget the jamma stuff and arcade monitor and just put a computer in there, i think i only need an ipac or likewise and be on my way, the main downsides to that seems to me that i have to strip the cab and store or sell that (the latter meaning no way back) and i give in on originality
(don't care for that much right now but maybe later on, i will)
the pro's to it will be, litlle hasle software and hardware wise and i could save me some money (wich is kind of an issiue i'm affraid) and by the looks of it this will be better for vertical games as well (?)
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after doing some thinking (and some more) i thought, would'n it be possible to take a midle road here, witch would be putting a computer monitor in the thing and use a jpac for the wiring using the jamma connector?
(so if i wanted to use the arcade monitor i'd allready be halfway in a way thus saving me the cost of an ipac and no need to rewire the whole cp)
questions wich come up are:
1) would this be possible at all using the jpac for only the controls?
2) how many controls am i able to use with the jpac alone?
i understood that jamma+ usses more then 3 buttons, on mine 4 seem to be wired and, if i'm right (really not sure)
only 3 are in use. Now i have this litlle conector hanging loose near the game pcb and i wondered if that was meant for the extra functions of jamma+? (be it not for the 2 unwired controls obviously)
bad pic again:
(i think i need 6 player buttons + 8 way stick times 2, 1 and 2 player button, coin reading and perhaps a button (or more) for anything to do with mame.
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and then, to finish this TS for now i have some other q's like,
1a) there is a sound amp in my cab and it's situated on a thing where there is also a coin counter and 2 switches, when i switched the 3 way switch i got some test image or something, only in the midle posistion the game would run, am i right and if so, what's it used for?
2a) there also is a red push button on it and i have no clue of why it's there, perhaps any of u lot do?
(it's above the on/off switch)
bad pic 3:
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well, hope this was kind of readable and i know i have way more stuff to ask (the software side of things makes me realy scared see
) but i'll leave it for now and i'll see where i go from here.
tnx in advance and one for the road (not bad as well this time)
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since i wrote this up yesterday since i didn't get clearing to post here yet, allready an update;
was browsing the net and stumbled on this: (another bad pic, not mine this time)
it's on my trailer as we speak and after doing some searching i'm pretty sure it's a williams paddle-ball machine, no idear in what shape it is in since it is to dark now, will uncover the thing tomorow...
edit > nope, must be a 1973 midway winner 2 according to this site:
http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0008708/museum.htmedit2: this is the winner (hehe)
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10444