I finished today...

[Lemony Vengeance]

Its a custom PCB with the male CPS2 header on it. There are part #s on the web for the white part, and you can buy the PCB from shadows for like 2.25 each.

 

[shadows]

Just curious .. why the dummy 5v load ? is that a voltage regulator ? could you have not used a 5v led to indicate power ?

Its a power resistor, its just a incase its used with certain PSUs that could be damaged without one. But in most cases it doesnt matter, its most likely just going to be a little space heater.

An led indicator would look nice, got a few rectangle leds which would look great on this I think.

 

[Kid Panda]

Its a power resistor, its just a incase its used with certain PSUs that could be damaged without one. But in most cases it doesnt matter, its most likely just going to be a little space heater.

An led indicator would look nice, got a few rectangle leds which would look great on this I think.

Shadow, your stuff really looks pro, I mean it really. Your DC box could have a retail release.

 

[codecrank]

Your DC box could have a retail release.

this

 

[shadows]

Thanks.

 

[codecrank]

Finally built my jamma test rig. w00t.

I wanted it to be flexible so I built it like a breakout box , this allows to quickly test joysticks, trackballs, spinners, etc And deal with those non standard pinouts like Rampart. There is a probe attached to pin A , so I can short any other pin : service, test, P1-Left, P2-Button4 , etc ...

The RGBS video is wired to a 6 pin molex connector , this allows me to output to an LCD display on my workbench... that gombes converter sucks, but it's fine for testing.

Then I can just move that molex connector to an actual arcade monitor. I also made an extension for AC & Degauss ( red button ).

I debated on weather to use AMP UP or molex... AMP UP is much better, but being able to run to radio shack in the middle of a project is priceless.

next on my list: sell that monitor and reclaim my garage's workbench....

 

[shadows]

Nice and clean setup. Did something similar with mine, except I used AMP connectors. But I really like youre idea with the breakout box. Makes it much faster and easier to hook up tempoary/ less common things.


Ok actually finished the padhack now. Truly done now .

 

[Xian Xi]

Nice and clean setup. Did something similar with mine, except I used AMP connectors. But I really like youre idea with the breakout box. Makes it much faster and easier to hook up tempoary/ less common things.


Ok actually finished the padhack now. Truly done now .

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Nice, I always like the look of non-circlular lights. Only other thing I would do is cut the key on the jamma edge.

 

[ECZangief]

Looking good Crank... I am inspired. Nice ideas there.

 

[codecrank]

Looking good Crank... I am inspired. Nice ideas there.

Nice and clean setup.

Thanks !

Ok actually finished the padhack now. Truly done now .

now that's lesson in kaizen

 

[shadows]

Nice, I always like the look of non-circlular lights. Only other thing I would do is cut the key on the jamma edge.

Yea me too.Its a bit more work, but looks much nicer imo. Im probably going to cut the key. I wasnt going to, but just in case it goes to someone that uses a keyed harness, less problems that way.

Ok actually finished the padhack now. Truly done now .

Thanks.



Finished puting together a little tool that makes easier to work/diagnose issues on CPS1 motherboards.

 

[Tyranix95]

That's cool.

So simple it's sexy.

 

[city41]

dumb question on padhacks: how do you hook the jamma edge on the padhack to your cab? Do you have jamma harnesses with two inputs on them?

 

[skate323k137]

dumb question on padhacks: how do you hook the jamma edge on the padhack to your cab? Do you have jamma harnesses with two inputs on them?

Usually these are used when putting a console in the cab, so the jamma harness goes to the padhack (instead of a PCB) so that the control panel of the cab can act as the controllers for the console. Does that answer your question?

 

[city41]

Usually these are used when putting a console in the cab, so the jamma harness goes to the padhack (instead of a PCB) so that the control panel of the cab can act as the controllers for the console. Does that answer your question?

Yes, and that was a truly dumb question haha. It's been a long day.

Thanks!

 

[shadows]

That's cool.

So simple it's sexy.

It is, though some games dont seem to like the long ribbon cable I think. Worked fine with SFII, but it didnt like Final Fight as much. Creating some sprites doubling on certain animations for a split second.

Hopefully a shorter cable fixes it.
But good enough to work with for now.

 

[scgon]

So lame, but I love it

 

[codecrank]

So lame, but I love it

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you clever bastard !

 

[scgon]

impressive workmanship isn't it... its a very simple thing to do obviously, hardest part is getting the pin out of the hinged piece that the coin return button usually hits into.

 

[shadows]

Thats really clever.

 

[Lemony Vengeance]

Nice work, man! This is perfect for games like DD2 that don't have a freeplay option! I'll have to mod my NAC for this

 

[loegan43]

Ha, that is clever. Great idea. Makes it easy to spam credits on all those beat em ups. I'll have to look into doing the same.

 

[skate323k137]

Finished a really basic supergun today. My NAOMI has it's own pretty dedicated rig that I hate disassembling to borrow the JAMMA harness, so I made this mainly for my CPS2. I built it to accomodate other boards too. There's no video encoder as I really only plan to use it with my PVMs for the time being. Audio circuit isn't attenuated but I have a nice 8 ohm speaker I can plug in for boards that need it.

I use my own DB15 pinout that is easier for me to remember than the neo pinout. It has 2 pins for button 4, one to the JAMMA harness and one to the CPS2 kick harness. I wired it like that in case I get some tanksticks from Jasens customs with the 7 button viewlix layout; I can use the 4th button on the top row for JAMMA (Neo Geo use) and the bottom row buttons for the kick harness (NAOMI / CPS2).

If you're wondering why the video is RCA out, I use component video switchboxes on my PVM's that have 6 jacks per input (R G B CVid R L). I use the composite video input for the sync signal. The switch boxes are hooked to PVMs using RCA -> BNC adaptors. It works really well, and I don't have to worry about scart cables for the most part.

 

[arcade game]

Congrat's really nice looking set up
Really clean desing

 

[codecrank]

Finished puting together a little tool that makes easier to work/diagnose issues on CPS1 motherboards.

nice !

so, looks like SFII is the favorite jamma crash dummy