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Donkbaca:
Its not anything to really worry about.  All you are doing is transplanting components, but for your enlightenment;  a common ground means that there is one ground that gets shared for all the inputs.  It makes for easier wiring because then all you need to do is daisy chain the one ground to all the inputs.  The x-arcade, on the other hand has different grounds for each bank of inputs.  It makes the wiring a little more messy, since you can't daisy chain them like you can if it were common ground, and makes it a little more complicated since its more wires to keep track of.

Marcade:
thanks for that  :applaud:
Hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a problem as I'm hoping for a complete guts transfer.

Donkbaca:
FYI

have you looked at www.slagcoin.com?

That is a good resource for button layouts.  I changed mine from the straight layout on the x-arcade to a more curved layout, I like it better.

Also, get a 1 1/8 forstner bit to drill your holes, in case you were wondering how to make them.

Marcade:
 ;D Thanks for that link  :cheers:
Not seen that before, more reading to be done!  ;D

LeedsFan:

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--- Quote ---By the way it is an Ipac from Ultimarc.
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- well I was close enough  :P
I've not really done any research on that tbh as I like my X-arcade feel- It might not be perfect but I'm trying to replicate the feel of "my" arcades growing up, in the UK in the late 80s early nineties it was mostly battered old jamma cabs that I got to play on (particularly the black cabs with red/blue logos on the side that name escapes me, something like coinmaster or machine something...anyway)

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I think you are fondly remembering the Electrocoin cabinets....
http://electrocoin.uk.com/goliath/

I had one of these and coverted it to a mame cab with Ultimarc J-Pac as my first project. Good luck with your transplant. I also had an X-Arcade but i sold it to help fund the cabinet conversion. And I ended up buying X-Arcade sticks anyway to put in that machine. Personally I feel there are much better sticks around now, but I was happy with them at the time.

I think you are doing the right thing to be honest in a full transplant. After you have done you can swap and change things if you like.

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