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| evitagen:
So I'm wanting to set-up my Dreamcast in my cabinet(Honestly mainly for Marvel vs. Capcom 2) and I would love to be able to use my control panel for the Dreamcast. I have an Ipac, so is this possible without re-doing a lot of stuff? I noticed on the ultimarc page there is this: http://www.ultimarc.com/dreamcast.html That's just a PS2 adaptor hooked up to some Dreamcast to PS2 adaptors. So obviously this would work, I assume? Anyone try this? Another question I had is this. I found this at playasia: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-h5-49-en-70-45.html Says it can also use a PC keyboard and convert it to use for the Dreamcast... It is also very cheap. So, since I have an Ipac, would it be possible to use this adaptor from playasia and connect it straight to the Ipac(I'm assuming using the Keyboard Passthrough that's currently not even being used anyway.) I really hope I'm explaining this well... I really just want an easy way to switch from playing my Dreamcast in my cabinet using my control panel back to playing MAME on my PC that's also in the cabinet. Any answers will be greatly appreciated. And yes I am very new to this. |
| ViciousXUSMC:
Sigh I wish I had gotten an Ipac and just an adapter, I tried to save a few $$$ and got the i-pac value with usb only and now I have this huge project at hand making my own adapters by hacking dreamcast controllers and modular connections. I think that adapter from playasia is just for actual keyboard stuff not for turning a keyboard into a controller. As games like phantasy star online used the dreamcast keyboard. Ironicly enough MVC2 is pretty much the only reason I am going through the trouble myself. $100 worth of trouble in my case. |
| srarcade:
If you have some soldering skills, just toss everything on jamma fingerboards, mount your stuff and you're gold. I have PC, 360, DC and PS2 wired on JAMMA fingerboards mounted neatly on 1/4in plywood and can swap systems into any cab just like any other pcb with no effort. All those systems can use the native VGA output to directly drive the video making it easy, but I added 15k RGB out to some as well. Component audio is cake since they all obviously support it too. Cost is minimal, just have to buy pads to hack and fingerboards from either Bob Roberts or jammabaords.com. You may need a tiny 5watt amp to drive audio if your cab does not have one. Ipac seems to be the way to do it if you don't want to get your hands dirty but you have to buy all these separate cables and adapters and still need to install the thing, seems just as difficult to me. |
| ViciousXUSMC:
If I had a jamma machine I would start that route in my case I just have a PC and a CP. I wanted to add Dreamcast connection half way through my planning phase. There are a few pins that confuse me on the jamma boards though, the few tuts on how to do that really dont mention where to get those odd wires from. |
| srarcade:
Nice thing about JAMMA is it only uses what you throw at it. You don't need to route all the wires on the loom like coin lock, coin counter, test switch, service switch etc etc. If all you use it for is the control panel, then (to me) it still makes it much easier than dealing with all these expensive IPAC cables. Which wires are the ones that have you confused? Just for the books, not trying to say its better than IPAC or anything like that. I am mostly an arcade enthusiast, not really a MAMEr so I am all in the JAMMA thing, I'm sure theres plenty of guys who will tell you how easy the IPAC is as well. I just prefer the flexibility and cost effecive benefits of JAMMA. |
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