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Title: used to have adapter that goes av/ s-video to jamma. what's it called?
Post by: marioxb on September 18, 2013, 09:07:25 am

About 10 years ago I had this Jamma adapter thingie that was sorta like the J-pac I suppose. Like the j-pac only for the fact that it let you connect a non-arcade source to a jamma cab. That's where the similarites end. I don't have the thing anymore and I actually never got around to using it. What it did was simply let you connect ANYTHING (and I think this was in the 16 bit days maybe?, so anything meant SNES, Genesis, etc or even a DVD player or VCR) to your arcade monitor. Just the monitor (speakers?). No controls, joysticks, buttons, conin slots.

Anyone remember/ have this thing? How well did it work? Are there similar products like J-Pac, but with S-video (or maybe even component or HDMI) hookups rather than VGA? Searching google brought up nothing, since I don't know what to search for. Most results are the opposite: how to hook up a jamma board to a TV, aka supergun, which is NOT what I am looking for.

Title: Re: used to have adapter that goes av/ s-video to jamma. what's it called?
Post by: ark_ader on September 18, 2013, 10:50:03 am

Google Kworld.  That outputs 15khz for Arcade Monitors, and VGA displays.

Newer ones  support HDMI and component.

You can get them on Amazon and Frys.

Title: Re: used to have adapter that goes av/ s-video to jamma. what's it called?
Post by: marioxb on September 18, 2013, 01:07:59 pm

Thanks, but I'm not sure that's it. The thing I had looked something like this:

(http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/850/05o6.png)

Title: Re: used to have adapter that goes av/ s-video to jamma. what's it called?
Post by: ark_ader on September 19, 2013, 02:07:12 pm

Ahh!
Bob Roberts comes to mind, and a dreamcast to jamma site has one of those.