Arcade candy cab project.
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i want arcade cabinet 
protek
"Takai desu ne." -"Jinsei da."
Mendel - utterly amazing. I would love a cab but stick to a supergun for now until I am rich 
Anyway I have a question - didn't capcom boards (or some of them) have suicide batteries on their arcade boards?
Was that a problem for you with this board?
Anyway I have a question - didn't capcom boards (or some of them) have suicide batteries on their arcade boards?
Was that a problem for you with this board?
Sega also did this, with some of their boards. Most of Capcoms are quite easy to get fixed these days
CPS1 games such as Street Fighter 2 Champion edition fortunately do not have suicide batteries. Later Capcom systems do.
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Got message from Viletim saying that basically any amiga rgb scart cable should work with his scart to jamma adapter.
Also I have a 2xrca to nvs-4000 cable so for video and audio I should soon be able to get amiga stuff on cabinet.
Now I just would need to figure out how to wire up an amiga joystick to a jamma fingerboard so that I could also play with the cab controls
I´ll post a pic as soon as I have some kind of amiga picture on the cab screen
Okay. Came from work this morning and decided to do this one thing before I go to sleep. In the middle of a night shift week but I have to do stuff other than work to stay sane. So, time for a fun little fan change project that I´ve been planning for a while! All the parts are here, so here I go!
CPS2 Alien vs Predator phoenix edition. May be a conversion. Haven´t checked. The real problem is the fan noise.
Here is the main villain. Noisy cps2 a-board fan.
Shipment from Aquatuning to the rescue!
So... off go the clips that hold the a board and b board together.
Here are the boards, now separated
So here´s the replacement fan: a Papst 612fl. Also needed is a special screwdriver head
And while I didnt have a screwdriver where to fit this head, anything that gives a bit of torque will do. Space is not an issue here
The cover lifted up after screwing off all 4 screws
The fan is old and dirty. It comes off by just lifting it off its "tracks"
So then... of course I cant just put the other fan in. The plugs aren´t the same.
So I just cut the cables, molexes won´t be needed, strip the cables a bit from their ends.
Then I like to add liberal amounts of shrinkwrap there, putting it at the ready before soldering the wires. Keeping it far enough so as not to shrink it yet.
Then I kind of wrap the wires together.
Like this...
And then for the part where my hands start shaking...
Soldering the wires together! Simple task for most people, big deal to my shaky hands.
The results, well... Not pretty, but they´re stuck together, damnit. That´s what counts!
They will probably conduct electricity too!
So I then slide the shrinkwrap on top of the soldered parts. I have only two hands so I´m not taking photo of the part where I put a burning match near the shrinkwrap
After burning two matches, the shrinkwrap has shrunk. It will stay put.
So it is time to slide the new fan in there!
It fits like a glove!
Better remember to put the plug back in too.
And then its just a matter of putting everything back together...
With cover, screws and the little clips connected, it is time for a comparison video!
Here you can hear the dramatic difference between a stock CPS2 fan and Papst 612fl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FVn9Dw14H2Y
CPS2 Alien vs Predator phoenix edition. May be a conversion. Haven´t checked. The real problem is the fan noise.
Here is the main villain. Noisy cps2 a-board fan.
Shipment from Aquatuning to the rescue!
So... off go the clips that hold the a board and b board together.
Here are the boards, now separated
So here´s the replacement fan: a Papst 612fl. Also needed is a special screwdriver head
And while I didnt have a screwdriver where to fit this head, anything that gives a bit of torque will do. Space is not an issue here
The cover lifted up after screwing off all 4 screws
The fan is old and dirty. It comes off by just lifting it off its "tracks"
So then... of course I cant just put the other fan in. The plugs aren´t the same.
So I just cut the cables, molexes won´t be needed, strip the cables a bit from their ends.
Then I like to add liberal amounts of shrinkwrap there, putting it at the ready before soldering the wires. Keeping it far enough so as not to shrink it yet.
Then I kind of wrap the wires together.
Like this...
And then for the part where my hands start shaking...
Soldering the wires together! Simple task for most people, big deal to my shaky hands.
The results, well... Not pretty, but they´re stuck together, damnit. That´s what counts!
They will probably conduct electricity too!
So I then slide the shrinkwrap on top of the soldered parts. I have only two hands so I´m not taking photo of the part where I put a burning match near the shrinkwrap
After burning two matches, the shrinkwrap has shrunk. It will stay put.
So it is time to slide the new fan in there!
It fits like a glove!
Better remember to put the plug back in too.
And then its just a matter of putting everything back together...
With cover, screws and the little clips connected, it is time for a comparison video!
Here you can hear the dramatic difference between a stock CPS2 fan and Papst 612fl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FVn9Dw14H2Y
Now I just would need to figure out how to wire up an amiga joystick to a jamma fingerboard so that I could also play with the cab controls
Do let me know when you figure out how to connect the joystick port AND simulate keyboard presses, so you can map '1 player' -> F1 and 'button 2' to space, etc
i find it easiest to solder wires together if i rest the wire on the iron and let that heat up then press the solder to the wire so the hot wire melts the solder and not the soldering iron.
it will flow better in to the wire then.
Keep the pics coming is always good to see pron.
it will flow better in to the wire then.
Keep the pics coming is always good to see pron.
i find it easiest to solder wires together if i rest the wire on the iron and let that heat up then press the solder to the wire so the hot wire melts the solder and not the soldering iron.
it will flow better in to the wire then.
Keep the pics coming is always good to see pron.
it will flow better in to the wire then.
Keep the pics coming is always good to see pron.
Warning! Incoming best post on this thread imminent!
edit: you´re going to love this...
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Only Amiga makes it possible!
I just took a couple pics as soon as I had any kind of picture on screen.
Little bit of screen adjustment to do...
Didn´t want to adjust screen now as I´m going to be putting the Alien vs Predator back in there cause I don´t have any Amiga joystick hack for the cabinet controls... yet
edit: you´re going to love this...
---------- Post added at 09:47 ---------- Previous post was at 09:35 ----------
Only Amiga makes it possible!
I just took a couple pics as soon as I had any kind of picture on screen.
Little bit of screen adjustment to do...
Didn´t want to adjust screen now as I´m going to be putting the Alien vs Predator back in there cause I don´t have any Amiga joystick hack for the cabinet controls... yet
Ah yes. That explains it. I bought my wife ...
And one quote for Amibay 2013 quote contest!
What a small missing "to" can do in a phrase!
You know what it´s like to remove and insert kickstart roms on Amiga motherboards. Well, I had a lot of practise doing similar thing because the game would always crash when I got to the boss of level 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOHKtacYXKI
I first tried detaching and re-attaching all 15 rom chips on the motherboard.
When that didn´t help, I sent the 4 program roms that are most likely to be at fault to Razoola of cps2shock.emu-france.info and he determined that one of them was very bad indeed.
I might get working roms back later this week.
edit: problem gone after re-burning the roms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOHKtacYXKI
I first tried detaching and re-attaching all 15 rom chips on the motherboard.
When that didn´t help, I sent the 4 program roms that are most likely to be at fault to Razoola of cps2shock.emu-france.info and he determined that one of them was very bad indeed.
I might get working roms back later this week.
edit: problem gone after re-burning the roms
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