JammaGuy
Previously I-d-o-s-k-8
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2005
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So recently I dragged out all of my stuff and showed my girlfriend how I can hook all of my boards to the living room television, and we can play arcade games, but she did not however enjoy the invasion of a switching power supply and all of the wires from the jamma harness routing to a million different things across the floor.
I started searching the web for supergun builds that were streamline, and beautiful, and she hated the ones that had the harness attached to a sleeve of wires, even though in all reality it still looks good sitting on your tv stand; but after some compromises (god love her, she supports me in the hobby as well as enjoys the games from time to time), we agreed on my current build "in progress" that I thought I'd share with you guys.
I found a nice enclosure from polycase it cost me about $20 after shipping, but I liked it, I know it has been picked before, but we agreed that it would look nice on the tv stand.
I bought most all of my buttons from eBay, as well as the db-15 solder type sockets, and my led power switch. The pushbuttons I found for my coin buttons were the only aesthetically pleasing ones I could find, but they were "locking" type pushbuttons, but I disassembled them, took out the locking mechanism, and put them back together, checked the leads for continuity with my multimeter, and they are now exactly what I wanted.
Now for some pics!
Here is the front plate, I hand cut the db-15 slots with a coping saw- I made an imprint in the backside by salvaging a db-15 and hitting it with a map gas torch and got it super hot, then stamped it into the plastic, it made the saw cutting super fast, and very easy. The cuts came out pretty clean!
Here is the front plate after I cut out the power button placement. I was a little bit boozed, so don't judge my slight off-centeredness
And here is the back side:
Again, we agreed to no wires protruding, so the plan is to use an jamma extender harness to plug into the supergun, and pair to the mobo's. I'm sure ill wrap it, and probably do some fiberglassing around it to make it pretty, and fool proof so that she doesn't plug it in upside down accidentally when I'm not home.
The front is now complete, populated with two controller inputs, two coin buttons, and a power button:
Got the backside outputs finished. I'm not going to run s-video because I wont use it.. and I left room for cosmetically appealing outputs for say CPS2 kick, although I'm not that huge on fighters or CPS2 unless its SPFIIT... I also haven't found the power supply input that I like yet, nor a power supply..
Still awaiting funds for the video encoder, and I'll also install a synch cleaner in this one. The power supply I'm in search of will supply +12VDC and +5VDC, and I'm looking an a negatron I believe that is what it is called that will convert my -5VDC for sound on certain boards.
I'm super open to suggestions, critiques, I'm not easily offended. The project is currently in soldering mode, I'll share pictures of my wire work when its complete, just know there is a lot of heat shrink tube in this one, its going to be nice... But also super time consuming...
I don't think that I'm currently leaving anything out, but I'd be glad to answer any questions, hope my work is inspiring, and people like how it turns out as much as I do!
-Bill
I started searching the web for supergun builds that were streamline, and beautiful, and she hated the ones that had the harness attached to a sleeve of wires, even though in all reality it still looks good sitting on your tv stand; but after some compromises (god love her, she supports me in the hobby as well as enjoys the games from time to time), we agreed on my current build "in progress" that I thought I'd share with you guys.
I found a nice enclosure from polycase it cost me about $20 after shipping, but I liked it, I know it has been picked before, but we agreed that it would look nice on the tv stand.
I bought most all of my buttons from eBay, as well as the db-15 solder type sockets, and my led power switch. The pushbuttons I found for my coin buttons were the only aesthetically pleasing ones I could find, but they were "locking" type pushbuttons, but I disassembled them, took out the locking mechanism, and put them back together, checked the leads for continuity with my multimeter, and they are now exactly what I wanted.
Now for some pics!
Here is the front plate, I hand cut the db-15 slots with a coping saw- I made an imprint in the backside by salvaging a db-15 and hitting it with a map gas torch and got it super hot, then stamped it into the plastic, it made the saw cutting super fast, and very easy. The cuts came out pretty clean!
Here is the front plate after I cut out the power button placement. I was a little bit boozed, so don't judge my slight off-centeredness
And here is the back side:
Again, we agreed to no wires protruding, so the plan is to use an jamma extender harness to plug into the supergun, and pair to the mobo's. I'm sure ill wrap it, and probably do some fiberglassing around it to make it pretty, and fool proof so that she doesn't plug it in upside down accidentally when I'm not home.
The front is now complete, populated with two controller inputs, two coin buttons, and a power button:
Got the backside outputs finished. I'm not going to run s-video because I wont use it.. and I left room for cosmetically appealing outputs for say CPS2 kick, although I'm not that huge on fighters or CPS2 unless its SPFIIT... I also haven't found the power supply input that I like yet, nor a power supply..
Still awaiting funds for the video encoder, and I'll also install a synch cleaner in this one. The power supply I'm in search of will supply +12VDC and +5VDC, and I'm looking an a negatron I believe that is what it is called that will convert my -5VDC for sound on certain boards.
I'm super open to suggestions, critiques, I'm not easily offended. The project is currently in soldering mode, I'll share pictures of my wire work when its complete, just know there is a lot of heat shrink tube in this one, its going to be nice... But also super time consuming...
I don't think that I'm currently leaving anything out, but I'd be glad to answer any questions, hope my work is inspiring, and people like how it turns out as much as I do!
-Bill