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Interfacing swappable Control Panels..
crsdawg:
the easiest way i know of is to use a cable similar to this one here. you can cut it in half(keeping the connectors in place) and then wire one side to your encoder and the other to your switches, then the connectors can be used for quick connect/disconnect.
(note: this particular cable has 24 wires inside, not 36)
mahuti:
Fingerboards with Jamma connection seem to be the most logical "easy insertion force" setup. Something I've been meaning to try myself for a while. Basically, the same thing as a nintendo cartridge.
If you are interested, you can buy them off of eBay, and newsgroups, and various arcade sellers (can't get the fingerboards from happs as far as I know, but you CAN get the Jamma harness)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3274119738&category=13718
patrickl:
I'm currently designing my swappable CP's to use the removable harddisk connectors mentioned before. In fact they are centronics connectors. I plan to slide my control panel in and then the connector will connect when it is slid in place.
I'm not sure if I can replicate a USB connection over these connectors too.
I'm still thinking about locking it in place. I bought some control panel latches, but then the problem is that I would need to go throug the coin door to open them. It would be cooler to be able to lock/unlock the control panel from above. Though I haven;t thought of anything better and I will have to open the bottom drawer (which will hold my Cp's) anyway if I want to swap panels.
Minwah:
I'm using 12-way Molex connectors. I have one connector per player (2 players) which takes care of up/down/left/right/buttons 1-7, and another which only uses 5 pins for both coin mechs and both start buttons (my start buttons are not on the CP itself, but permanently located). Also note that some of my panels only require inputs from P1.
It looks like this, the plugs are on there but I haven't wired up to the control panel itself yet:
SirPoonga:
I use a dp25.
With the minipac all you need is ide cable.
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