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Got a 25” Smash TV to MAME . . . J-PAC & ArcadeVGA questions
dgame:
I won’t be touching any of the art or the original control panel, though eventually I will make another swappable control panel with two players having 7 buttons each.
I am thinking of going the PC2 JAMMA route using a J-PAC and ArcadeVGA card.
That way I can keep the cabinet’s stock look and play the other dual stick MAME games on it also.
The additional control panel will be two Ultrastik 360s interfaced directly to the PC using USB.
I am going to pick up the machine tonight so pictures will follow.
Any advice on this?
Is the J-PAC and ArcadeVGA card all I need to do the initial conversion?
Does the J-PAC support the Smash TV two-player dual 8-way controls?
How do the vertical classics (Pacman, Gyruss, etc.) look on a 25” Horizontal arcade monitor when driven by the J-PAC/ArcadeVGA combo? Does it clip (highscore and lives in Ms. Pacman) or stretch the screen? Does it maintain the correct aspect ratio?
Can the ArcadeVGA be used with dual monitors, one monitor being the LCD and the other being the J-PAC? How will this affect my LCD monitor resolution? Can I have arcade resolution on the J-Pac and SVGA on the LCD monitor at the same time?
Thanks!!!
ahofle:
--- Quote from: dgame on May 01, 2008, 01:24:48 pm ---How do the vertical classics (Pacman, Gyruss, etc.) look on a 25” Horizontal arcade monitor when driven by the J-PAC/ArcadeVGA combo? Does it clip (highscore and lives in Ms. Pacman) or stretch the screen? Does it maintain the correct aspect ratio?
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In my experience, 256 line and less games (Gyruss, Donkey Kong, Centipede, etc) look great on a horizontal CGA monitor at 352x256 once you adjust the vertical size and position. 288 line and above games (Pacman, Ms. Pac, Galaga) usually end up clipped on the top and bottom since they are right at the limits of CGA. You can adjust the vertical size to get most of it to fit, but then horizontal games will have a large amount of empty black space at the top and bottom, so it's a compromise. It's easier to run those games stretched at 640x480 interlaced although they don't look as good IMO.
dgame:
Saw the cab last night and paid for it so it is officially mine!
This is my first ever arcade machine!
I am going to bring it home tonight.
I didn’t get any pictures but it looks to be in similar condition to this one:
The coin doors have no locks and are open so I could see inside the cabinet and it is very clean in there, no signs of water damage or anything like that, just some unidentified envelopes and documents.
The back door is locked and the guy doesn’t have the key, but I suspect it the backdoor key may be inside the cabinet somewhere, probably in one of those envelopes. I will fish everything out and remove the control panel to see if the key is in there before drilling the back lock.
The game plays sweet! The controls are tight and the screen is nice with no burn in.
The cabinet overall is in good shape.
There are some small cigarette burns on the control panel and on top of the first joystick.
The volume control is a little scratchy but it works and the cabinet sounds really loud.
Overall, it could use a good cleaning, fix the burned joystick, and that is about it . . . until I receive the JPAC and AVGA.
Game on.
boogieman:
Awesome score! I played that game once or twice when I was a kid. Probably burnt $2 worth of quarters in 2 minutes. I got it on a playstation 2 pack (I think midway classics). I am better now, but man does it take some skill. I think there was talk about someone being able to play it with a quarter. WOW!
jilted:
me and a friend used to meet up at the arcade on our campus once a week
we would each have a $10 roll of quarters
we would pump that $20 into the game
sometimes we would beat it, others times it would beat us
that game is a riot
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