Howdy. Upgrading a Nu-Gen cab.

[Railgun]

Howdy all.  Seems that posts generally speaking are far and few between here.  Given the notice of server issues and general lack of recent threads, hopefully this wasn't a bad time to become a paying member.

So I've recently acquired a roughly 10 year old, 2-player Nu-Gen cabinet.  I wanted to make this a full fledged gaming cab for not only legacy consoles, but the current crop of consoles and PC games, so I'm at the end stages of a HW upgrade.  It's leveraging the legacy I-PAC PS/2 interface, and while it works, may also upgrade to the Ultimate to consolodate the LED board and interface to one device. One piece of HW I will take a recommendation on is for a 12-way rotary joystick to replace the existing ball tops, whether it's a modification or an AIO unit for games like Ikari Warriors or Heavy Barrel I don't mind.  

I ended up getting a "pre-built" drive that I've since downloaded, only now realizing how much of a PITA this is to get the cab to operate the same way as it was originally built.

I've seen many references to simply start from scratch and leverage the media provided to move over, and I may end up down that road as the original build is sans RocketLauncher, and I'm having issues getting the cab's buttons to map correctly in HS, as well as other little graphical differences.  Not to mention an issue launching some games that use RetroArch as the back end launcher.  And while I have support for said download, it may be easier to start from scratch rather than hack what was provided. 

The original setup was a Win7 build, and I'm running Win10 for this.  I will clone the original disks, move to the new HW, and possibly upgrade to Win10 if I end up having driver issues as it's an AM5 based setup.  I've recycled an older GPU (2080 ti) and ended up watercooling as why not.  Unfortunately the AM5 platform is somewhat limited for what I wanted to do, but for now it works.  7800X3D, 32GB DDR5-6000 with 16TB of NVMe storage for everything and another 1TB for boot. 

I may upgrade the cab itself for their marquee display, and I may do something with the audio, which uses the Bose Companion 3, but for now it works fine. 

Looking forward to getting this cab finalized.  Already have a neighbor asking to give it a go when done. 

[dark13]

It looks high end so here's a tip: get a gsync (gsync compatible works good here) monitor.

Why? Start mame on a non gsync/freesync monitor/tv, activate vsync and try battle garegga and galaga 88. Exit mame, deactivate vsync and try again those games.

With gsync you'll have the same input of non vsync without screen tearing. Not many games have game breaking input lag but some of them are unplayable without gsync/freesync/vrr.

[Railgun]

That too is on the list. It’s an old Samsung TV that’s in place now. Color looks terrible.