Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: ArcadeDunce on March 27, 2013, 10:31:16 pm
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I found a site that has a completed Pac-Man style cabinet and control panel pre-built.
If I wanted a cabinet that had classic games in it, with original PCBS, what could I throw in there without it getting too crowded, and if possible have it all run on the same equipment?
I'd want Popeye, Pac-Man, Frogger, and QBert installed.
The second machine would be all Jamma. NBA Jam, Turtles, Simpsons...Xmen..and that i'd build myself.....
I always prefer original hardware over the rom route..
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All the games you listed in the first group have different pinouts to connect the power and buttons. You would have to develop adapters to connect them to the same cabinet controls. Jamma standards did not exist when these games were produced.
The second group of games are later so a multi jamma setup will probably work.
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Also QBert has a joystick at 45 degree angle, so it will not match the controls of pacman etc.
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Popeye would need an inversion board to play on a monitor other than the 20ez
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Popeye is also a horizontal game while the others are vertical. QBert wants 30 volts and -12 volts, while the others want -5 volts. I believe you have to do some conversions to a pac-man board to even make it play nice with anything else since it normally takes AC power to the edge connector.
Qbert doesn't really play nice with anything. It needs an angled joystick and what you will pay for a working Qbert circuit board with working sound gets you about 80 percent of the way to the purchase price of a whole machine (all the way there if you can snag a deal).
I have a Ms. Pac-Man with Mike Doyles multipac kit installed. That is a pretty decent solution if you want to avoid emulation. It gets you Pac, Ms. Pac, Pac-Plus, Ms Pac-Plus (fast and slow versions and a zillion variant mazes of all of the former), plus Super Pac, Pengo, Caterpillar, Pacrabbit, Space Invaders and Pirahna all running on an original Pac-Man circuit board.
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hmm, so it's back to this idea then....
http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm (http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm)
anyone know how much it costs? I can't seem to find that...I guess all you need to do to order one is send him a check in the mail and hope he has some available...not much info on the process that i can find.
thanks :)
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Try looking on this (http://www.phoenixarcade.com/art.htm) page.
Scott
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That's basically "the ROM route"... a MAME setup will give you more flexibility, full customization and access to the exact games you want.
hmm, so it's back to this idea then....
http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm (http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm)
anyone know how much it costs? I can't seem to find that...I guess all you need to do to order one is send him a check in the mail and hope he has some available...not much info on the process that i can find.
thanks :)
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That's basically "the ROM route"... a MAME setup will give you more flexibility, full customization and access to the exact games you want.
hmm, so it's back to this idea then....
http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm (http://www.phoenixarcade.com/ArcadeSD.htm)
anyone know how much it costs? I can't seem to find that...I guess all you need to do to order one is send him a check in the mail and hope he has some available...not much info on the process that i can find.
thanks :)
yep, but then you've just gotta hope it's a good rom with no bugs or other glitches...why i would prefer the jamma route. Or even the multi board games. haven't found one yet with the games in the first post though..
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Try looking on this (http://www.phoenixarcade.com/art.htm) page.
Scott
that'll work..thanks :)
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You aren't finding the combination you posted because it is a mutually exclusive combination.
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That Phoenix arcade board is very nice but its still the rom route and its more limited than mame.
It currently supports 70 vert games and 40 horiz.
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That Phoenix arcade board is very nice but its still the rom route and its more limited than mame.
It currently supports 70 vert games and 40 horiz.
This. I think you are misunderstanding what the ArcadeSD is, it is just ROMs and Emulation on a board, without the flexibility or continual development (ArcadeSD is one guy) of MAME.
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That Phoenix arcade board is very nice but its still the rom route and its more limited than mame.
It currently supports 70 vert games and 40 horiz.
This. I think you are misunderstanding what the ArcadeSD is, it is just ROMs and Emulation on a board, without the flexibility or continual development (ArcadeSD is one guy) of MAME.
I don't need that many games.. and i like the idea of a simple board, a simple power source, and the jamma wires, versus a whole computer stuck in there
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That Phoenix arcade board is very nice but its still the rom route and its more limited than mame.
It currently supports 70 vert games and 40 horiz.
This. I think you are misunderstanding what the ArcadeSD is, it is just ROMs and Emulation on a board, without the flexibility or continual development (ArcadeSD is one guy) of MAME.
I don't need that many games.. and i like the idea of a simple board, a simple power source, and the jamma wires, versus a whole computer stuck in there
just check the literature on that board first to make sure it supports the games that you do want.