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Title: Pandoras box?
Post by: deezdrama on October 25, 2015, 07:45:39 am

Finishing up my 4p cab and my son tells me he wants a small cab.

I think I will build him a bartop, i have several old lcd pc monitors I could pick and choose to use .
What im out of is spare pc's .... ive seen these pandoras box multi pcb's going for cheap on ebay.

My concern is I dont know what I would need for wiring?
A full jamma harness?

I have an old vendetta 4p cab in the garage.... could I use the harness from it without alot of troubles?

I keep reading about these china pcb boxes and that the ground pinout is wrong .... are all of these like this?

Title: Re: Pandoras box?
Post by: big10p on October 25, 2015, 08:41:57 am

They use a JAMMA harness but use pin 27 for button 6 (if you have that many player buttons). On standard JAMMA, pin 27 is ground. Just google to get the full Pandora's Box pinout.

Title: Re: Pandoras box?
Post by: monkeybomb on October 25, 2015, 12:43:20 pm

There is an adapter if you want to leave the harness alone.  Also, there are bootlegs of pandas box 3 that don't run well.  I haven't tried the good one yet, but people seem to be happy with it.


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Title: Re: Pandoras box?
Post by: paigeoliver on October 25, 2015, 06:10:32 pm

The real ones don't run that well either. Better to spend the money on a used PC.