jr's Donkey Kong restoration

[Dustin]

  Man,not a way to treat an arcade classic cabinet by replacing its internals with MAME.

Try to find a different cabinet to MAME, anything but a classic!!!

Marvel Vs Capcom, while a great fighting game and all..... NOT a REASON to MAME the Donkey Kong. 

[_JMFR]

^^agreed

[DaOld Man]

I have to agree also, you should save up your money and finish the restore of Donkey Kong.

[bfauska]

@ the purist whiners...

Are you people serious? If you looked at the thread you've seen what he started with. He did a good job of re-creating and cleaning up several parts along the way to doing a restoration and then ran out of resources so he set aside the good pieces and gently installed some temporary parts to continue to enjoy the cab.

He never had the board.
He didn't rip out a monitor.
He didn't re-drill a CP.
He didn't damage the paint.
He didn't destroy the bezel or marquee.
He didn't burn it.

He just set a laptop inside the cabinet and hooked it up to a monitor that he set inside and some controls on a board that sits in the stock location.

I can get on board when people are trying to keep a classic from being destroyed or even mildly damaged, but this thing is in much better shape than when he found it and still well on the road to a restore.

[jr]

   

GONE


Time to continue on the road to greatness after a detour in stupidity.


Bought a board, no clue if it works but it looks good

I need help on the wiring and I need to find a way to test the board. Plus I still need a monitor. 

[ivwshane]

And he's back!!! Can he redeem himself!!??


Good luck!

[javeryh]

Good luck dude - I think I've decided to kind of MAME mine (running an old computer to play DK and a few other one button 4-way games).  How much was the board?  It seems like everything is super expensive when you add it all up.

[jr]

The board was about $50 on ebay, that is including shipping. 

[SirPeale]

The easiest thing to do would be to wire up an edge connector.  I'm sure you can find a harness @ Mike's Arcade.  I'm not even going to bother checking, they've got pretty much everything DK there.

Or you could make your own, but you're on your own getting wire for the harness.

[jr]

Since I don't want to spend about $300 on original Sanyo monitor, I am considering converting the cabinet to Jamma wiring using a Donkey Kong to Jamma adapter.

[SirPeale]

That would greatly simplify wiring, no doubt.  And JAMMA harnesses are cheap...I bet DK ones are not.

[orion]

That would greatly simplify wiring, no doubt.  And JAMMA harnesses are cheap...I bet DK ones are not.

Like around $15.00 cheap.  I think your plan on setting it up with Jamma wiring is the way to go, that should certainly help you keep costs down and as Pearl says simplify the wiring. Actually I have found that wiring for Jamma is ridiculously easy.

[SirPeale]

WHO THE HELL IS PEARL GOD DAMMIT!

[Mauzy]

That would greatly simplify wiring, no doubt.  And JAMMA harnesses are cheap...I bet DK ones are not.

Like around $15.00 cheap.  I think your plan on setting it up with Jamma wiring is the way to go, that should certainly help you keep costs down and as Pearl says simplify the wiring. Actually I have found that wiring for Jamma is ridiculously easy.

WHO THE HELL IS PEARL GOD DAMMIT!

Oh lordy. He's done it now...

[orion]

WHO THE HELL IS PEARL GOD DAMMIT!

Sorry, can't seem to read or type these days, my 6 month old been kind of sick and I am going on about 5 hours of sleep total for the week so far.... no disrespect.... you can call me onion if it makes ya feel better 

[RayB]

Who the hell is SirPeale?

When were you knighted??