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Title: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: slapaham on May 10, 2009, 06:33:10 am: I have one of these...

(http://home.insightbb.com/%7Ecandycabinetcity1/cabinets/Sega/Naomi/04.jpg)

and am awaiting one of these...

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/267226332_5aa160eb54.jpg?v=0)

...having seen 2 lovely Net Cities system linked so that player one uses 1 cab and player 2 uses a second to play against each other, I just wondered whether there was a simple way to do this in MAME between these 2 machines.

I have no motivation to modify either of these 2 cabs so I am intending to get a JVS-Pac for the Naomi and I already have a J-Pac for the Egret II. If I was to purchase a KVM box which had the possibility of splitting the image across 2 screens could I set up the 2 cabs using one PC, so that Player 1 takes one cab and Player 2 takes the other? I have a feeling this would work as, as far as I'm aware, the JVS-Pac uses USB and the J-Pac uses PS/2 so there should be no conflict.

Let me have your thoughts guys! :cheers:
Title: Re: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: dreamakuma on May 10, 2009, 10:46:37 am: I've done it before. should work if all you are doing is splitting a video image and not try to do some weird system linking.
Title: Re: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: slapaham on May 10, 2009, 11:00:49 am: I overcomplicated it a before in my describing. As the J-Pac uses PS/2 connection and the JVS-Pac uses USB then it's just a case of plugging both upto the PC and using a video splitter to each cab... should be simple enough.

Thanks :cheers:
Title: Re: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: leapinlew on May 10, 2009, 11:05:04 am: Quote from: slapaham on May 10, 2009, 11:00:49 am
I overcomplicated it a before in my describing. As the J-Pac uses PS/2 connection and the JVS-Pac uses USB then it's just a case of plugging both upto the PC and using a video splitter to each cab... should be simple enough.

Thanks :cheers:
ha! I agree. I was over thinking it figuring it needed some sort of system link. Splitting the video is the perfect easy solution.
Title: Re: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: slapaham on May 10, 2009, 01:09:26 pm: I guess you could probably even make the 2 cabs function as a 4 player set up? The J-Pac would allow you to reconfigure the keys to players 3 and 4 while the JVS-Pac would act as players 1 and 2...
Title: Re: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: Ginsu Victim on May 10, 2009, 04:38:05 pm: Yep, you sure could.
Title: Re: Will this work? MAME System Link...
Post by: slapaham on May 10, 2009, 05:43:37 pm: Cheers everyone for this! All sounds very promising/interesting. JVS-Pac has now been ordered just have to find the time to get everything in place!
:cheers: