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chinabox:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 27, 2003, 11:30:51 pm ---...you might as well do it from scratch and save the extra money.

...You might also want to check and see if Championship Bowling has been dumped for emulation yet. I don't see it in Mame.

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Is the implication here that a J-PAC won't work if Championship Bowling is not emulated on MAME? And also, isn't the J-PAC cheaper than the I-PAC4? I'm confused about all of this now...It can't just be any JAMMA harness?

If I ditch the JAMMA, what will I keep from the original cabinet?

paigeoliver:
No, the implication was that you may have an undumped game on your hands, and thus might want to send the boardset out to one of the Mame dumpers so it can be emulated.

The J-Pac is cheaper than the Ipac-4, but not cheaper than the I-Pac 2 (the j-pac basically IS an I-Pac2 with a jamma edge connector on it). You have an obvious 2 player cabinet, so the I-Pac 2 is the one for you.

The reason I suggested ditching the J-Pac idea is that the J-Pac doesn't support trackballs, and the trackball is the only thing your cabinet has wired up in the first place. Thus you would have to do a bunch of wiring anyway, so you might as well not get a J-Pac.

What would you keep from your original cabinet? The transformer, the power cord, and the wires from the transformer to the monitor. The coin door. The marquee light

What goes is the JAMMA edge connector (and all associated wiring). The power supply, the game boardset, and the original control panel (which looks to me like it would not hold up to having any more holes drilled in it).

chinabox:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 28, 2003, 12:06:34 am ---No, the implication was that you may have an undumped game on your hands, and thus might want to send the boardset out to one of the Mame dumpers so it can be emulated.

The J-Pac is cheaper than the Ipac-4, but not cheaper than the I-Pac 2 (the j-pac basically IS an I-Pac2 with a jamma edge connector on it). You have an obvious 2 player cabinet, so the I-Pac 2 is the one for you.

The reason I suggested ditching the J-Pac idea is that the J-Pac doesn't support trackballs, and the trackball is the only thing your cabinet has wired up in the first place. Thus you would have to do a bunch of wiring anyway, so you might as well not get a J-Pac.

What would you keep from your original cabinet? The transformer, the power cord, and the wires from the transformer to the monitor. The coin door. The marquee light

What goes is the JAMMA edge connector (and all associated wiring). The power supply, the game boardset, and the original control panel (which looks to me like it would not hold up to having any more holes drilled in it).

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Okay, this all might be good news actually. I have an IPAC on its way in the mail that I ordered before I was convinced to buy a JPAC :) Now you're making me think that I made the right choice in the first place. Thanks!

Still need to order the ArcadeVGA though...damn $12 shipping :) Andy's a great guy, though. So what should I sell from this mother?

paigeoliver:
Sell EVERYTHING from it. Preferably in one lot (the more complete a "kit" is, the higher price it will fetch on ebay).

My suggestion is one lot having

Control Panel (complete and populated, if you really want a trackball, just buy one of those 3" PS2 ones, almost as cheap as buying the interface for the one you already have anyway, plus it will be new).
Marquee
monitor bezel
Boardset
Jamma harness (still attached to control panel).
power supply (you don't need it, and it aint worth listing separate, so you might as well let it add a few bucks to the value of your kit on ebay).

With proper pictures and description you could easily get $70-$100 for that kit. Be sure to specify that your kit includes everything needed to convert a game to Championship Bowling. Wouldn't hurt to mention how you like Championship Bowling better than Capcom Bowling.

rampy:
*Shrug* If you have an ipac on the way... by all means use that! I was just trying to give you the simplest options.

There's no way to know from sure from here... but picture 8 made me think the jamma joystick/button wiring was complete/populated...i.e. ready to slide on to a set of joys buttons. which would facilitate a quicker maming by a jpac (however not an absolute necessity -- the ipac works just as well you just run the wires yourself instead of using the existing harness -- no big whup)... the only other bonus of using a j-pac is that perhaps someday you can revert it back to a regular arcade game without too much trouble... (but once you mame it I doubt you'd want to go back=P)

Now that I've had a better look at your control panel... I see it's already pre-drilled for conversion to a joystick game. I also see that it might be a little bit of a pain to re-make out of wood. If you took off the lexan/overlay and replaced the lexan you should be in good shape to drill out the button/joy holes on the lexan and drop in your joy/buttons.

If championship bowling is unemulated or rather un-dumped, the noble thing to do would be to find out if the guru has your particular game roms yet. And if not, ship out the board to him to have the rom information dumped and hopefully someone will write a driver for it for MAME... (I believe they do/can give the boards back... but it's a slow process.... check the site for details or start a dialogue with guru)

*shrug*

Rampy

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