Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: armour248 on July 09, 2008, 12:46:04 pm
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A few months ago I bought a NBA Jam TE arcade cabinet. Everything is functional besides some of the buttons/joysticks which I plan on replacing. I haven't begun working on it yet but want to gain a decent understanding what each step entails before I begin.
First, I would like to learn how to wire the arcade monitor to my PC. I'm not sure which video card I will use but I have a decently new ATI card (I forget the model) and an old Geforce3. I was planning on using the ATI card. The best article I have found thus far is at http://www.ultimarc.com/monfaq.html#monitorcable.
I would like to find an article or forum thread that has pictures and explanations of the process so that I can simply follow it step-by-step. If someone could provide some url's to any useful information I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
J
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Will posting my monitor information be helpful?
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If NBA Jam is JAMMA Compatible, you may want to consider the J-Pac and ArcadeVGA from http://www.ultimarc.com.
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can you plug the arcade monitor directly into that video card? how does it work?
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It's not a video card. It's a keyboard encoder and a video amp designed to plug-and-play into a JAMMA harness. Very nice.
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can you plug the arcade monitor directly into that video card? how does it work?
Reading the wiki might help ya a bit.
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I am new to the forum. I was reading this post and noticed the J-pac answer.
Seems like a great solution for adding a PC to an existing Jamma PCB board and play mame games right on the Existing Arcade Cabinet's monitor.
Can you still play the Jamma board as well? or does the J-Pac over ride the original game on the Jamma PCB board?
I wanted to hook up my existing Golden Tee Arcade Game (i think it is jamma how do you know if it is?) so I can play some mame games on it.
Does anyone know as well if Silver Strike is emulated yet? I might be in the wrong forum for that question but the J-pac seems like an awesome and easy solution. Anyone use it yet? The website has instructions but no photos to help with install.
Thanks in advance
Brent
www.extendedplayarcade.com
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the ArcadeVGA sure looks like a video card to me...
"The Ultimate Video card for gaming on 15Khz Arcade Monitors and now PC Monitors"
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Alright according to http://www.jammaboards.com/jcenter_jamma_board_list.html, my cabinet should be JAMMA.
Assuming this is correct, I should be able to buy the ArcadeVGA card and a J-Pac card and basically connect the arcade monitor to the ArcadeVGA card and the buttons/joysticks to the J-Pac card correct?
Does the J-Pac card really only support 2 players with 3 buttons each? How do you play fighting games etc. than?