my first arcade cab! Playchoice-10
well, it was about time..
i've had an empty generic cab in my posession for a really freaking long time now, probably a couple of years.. because i was meant to be putting a megadrive in it for someone.. but i was lazy and never got around to it and eventually they said forget it, i can keep it. so awesome, it's mine now. so far i decided i wanted it to be a playchoice 10 cabinet (not a hard decision for me.. i've wanted one for a long time). and so i went hunting around online.. i managed to get a single monitor pcb, and a super mario bros cart for it for pretty good prices, and i've started wiring it up. first problem, i had no edge connectors.. i managed to scab a 44 pin edge connector from a dead photo cab my friend has in the back yard (it was the old credit board connector) and i've mostly finished wiring up the bits that are on that..
currently the monitor is working (but with inverted video.. the inverter board is on it's way from mike's arcade) and the game displays fine and runs the super mario bros demo if i dont have it set to free play.. i managed to ground the enter button then start button and got the sound running through a little amp board stolen from inside some really crap pc desktop speakers (rewired to run off the arcade machine's power supply, instead of the transformer in the speaker). the mikes arcade video inverter has an audio amp on the board too.. its pretty much designed for what im doing. so ill get rid if this crappy buzzy amp when that comes.. it was just a test.
no inputs of any kind currently working.. but i've made a great start.
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