Quoted from ExSquid:Eh I wouldn’t care as it’s a the last remaining video game in my house that’s not going anywhere. And I’m all in on Pins now except for this. A guy who fixed one of my games offered to put the 60 in 1 into my cabinet but a lot of those game require a diagonal joystick which it doesn’t have. So I didn’t do it. I’m all for a little “ bastardization” if it doesn’t affect too much.
Here’s some options…
Your cabinet has a jamma connector harness in it that will allow you to put jamma boards in the machine, so you could essentially swap out jamma boards. I would recommend being able to reverse all “bastardization” changes to the machine.
There are some options of pcb jamma boards. Cheapest is the 60/1 $
Phoenix arcade . Com has the arcadeSD board, it has fpga emulation and is a great playing board with maybe 200 games. I have it, it’s a great board with very accurate game play. $$$
If you really want to nerd out and spend more time being involved in the original arcade games list and even more accuracy, the Mister fpga board and the jamma board that you can get is a great option. You’ll need to research and play with the setup to get it all just right. $$$$
Then there are crazy 161/1, or 512/1 or 5000/1 boards, but those will require you to replace the control panel and wire up a lot more stuff. I’d really recommend a bigger cabinet for this. As you’re looking at many 2 player games and needing a horizontal screen.
If you want a pc to connect to the arcade monitor, you’ll want to research how to do that, then spend a week or more of your free evenings getting this to work, it’s dangerous, and could mess up your monitor or video card doing this.
Whatever you do, keep the nice arcade monitor intact, it’s rare and unique, and has enough voltage to kill a man. There are not new ones being made to replace them with.
If you decide to put in an lcd screen, you might as well sell your machine to someone that wants it just the way it is and buy a machine with an lcd screen.
An lcd screen will give a pc a direct connection and you can play Pac-Man ce. (Pac-Man ce will require the screen to be remounted horizontally) Pac-Man ce will not work on the arcade monitor, it’s just not made with the 480 resolution of the arcade monitor in mind, but it should work great with a 720 or 1080 lcd monitor.
If you get the desire to drill or cut holes in the control panel, don’t, just buy another control panel and store the original away. Arcadeshop.com has options of control panels for your cabinet, it’s your best bet. They also have all the controls and graphics for the panel, plus they’re knowledgeable, so you can ask them questions.
Hope this helps
but at least I have DDPDFK running beautifully, the rest are ok, but would be much much better on a CRT...
