jtslade Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 It will be a long time until I have room to have my full size arcade so I need to maximize the two games I have. The Neo Geo Mame cab plays horizontal stuff very well and with the. Nanano 25" they all look amazing. But tuning vertical 4 way stuff on it sux so I decided to non destructive convert my Ms. Pacman cocktail to a mame multicade using the amazing groovy arcade Linux system. The hardware: who cares about exact specs anymore .. Original Ms. pacman Midway cocktail cab Atx-micro pcb with Low end Amd On board Ati video 2 gb ram 32 gb USB stick Ultimarc JPac Jammaboards.com PAC to Jamma PCb PC power supply Twisted quarter had the multicade CP's and I used the start buttons. New leaf buttons for 1 and 2 Tornado Terry's 4 way pacman cocktail joystick (micro switch, still looking for a leaf cocktail 4 way stick to use instead) Wire Lead Solder and Iron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtslade Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 Removed Original Pcb and placed in storage This is what the original PCB looked like on my stock G07 Capped it And replaced the fly back which made it brighter but still had black lines and blurry Mounted the mobo and JPac and jamma boards PAC to Jamma in the cab Hooked up an Lapai TAmp for sound I don't have any overlays designed yet. Screen was still blurry so swapped the tube and now it's perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtslade Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 More Rare game you have prob never seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtslade Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 So it plays 100+ vertical 4 way games and some that I resize the aspect ratio that play fine like Thief Also time pilot is 8 way but its still fun I mostly go for stuff that is cocktail enabled via dip switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluc Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 nice cab ! Wondering I am using a very similar audio amp in my current project and wondering do you have any sort of external volume control? If so how do you set it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFlash3785 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekAsbury Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 nice cab ! Wondering I am using a very similar audio amp in my current project and wondering do you have any sort of external volume control? If so how do you set it up? I ordered one of these for my cab. Includes a remote and inputs for iPhone. You could always hack an amp and get the volume knob run to a spinner on the cab - I'm just too lazy for all that heh... http://www.ebay.com/itm/350973561435?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtslade Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 nice cab ! Wondering I am using a very similar audio amp in my current project and wondering do you have any sort of external volume control? If so how do you set it up? No I am going through the g Games now and finding a good volume sweet spot -7 in the Mame.ini is what usually go for For adjustment on the fly ill pull up the slider in the menu for volume while in game TAB menu from Mame Since this is Linux there is no CabVol program.. In windows I run this and use Enter up and down for volume then left for mute Other idea would be to wire up a Pot to my amplified wire before it goes to the JPac Then hide the pot somewhere, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SORHP Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Very nice!how are you getting 15 kHz for the monitor from the pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtslade Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Groovy arcade which is booting off the USB includes Groovy Mame which when paired with an ATI video card outputs 15khz 10 seconds or so after boot up. The JPac splits the screen safely until then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf866 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 nice cab ! Wondering I am using a very similar audio amp in my current project and wondering do you have any sort of external volume control? If so how do you set it up? I am using a Lepai amp with a pair of two-way 4" kickers and it sounds awesome. I basically set the amp volume/bass/treble max volume and max windows volume to my liking. I have two buttons wired to to my I-PAC2, C and V. I then wrote a simple AutoHotKey script to send windows volume down when C is pressed, and volume up when V is pressed. Pressing them together will mute. I run the compiled script at Hyperspin launch. I am simply using windows volume control instead of manually turning the amp up/down. Here is the script I use: #NoEnv SendMode Input SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% C::Send {Volume_Down} V::Send {Volume_Up} C & V::Send {Volume_Mute} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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