Wiring in the Video Normal arcade cabinets run of analogue RGB and composite negative sync. You can get hold of the RGB quite easily, but you need to strip the composite sync of out of the composite video signal.
	Looking at the back of the SCART plug (i.e. this is really a TV's SCART socket) You're interested in the following pins.. 2.........Sound Right 6.........Sound Left (Mono) 7.........Video Blue 11........Video Green 15........Video Red 20........Composite Video 21........Frame Ground If 21 (the actually metal) is not connected to ground one of the following pins can be used instead 4... Audio GROUND 17.. Video GROUND 18.. Blanking GROUND 13.. Red GROUND 5.. Blue GROUND 9.. Green GROUND 21 is connnected in all Saturn scart cables that I've seen, but you never know! Simply take the Red, Green, Blue wires and solder them to the correct pins on the JAMMA biscuit. Solder Ground to Video Ground on the JAMMA biscuit, then solder another wire from that Video Ground on the JAMMA biscuit to another ground pin on the JAMMA biscuit. Then you have to make up this circuit... Note: You may not need to make this circuit if your arcade monitor can either .use composite video inplace of composite sync or .sync to the (weak/not always present ?) Saturn's video sync output The video circuit method will work with all standard arcade monitors, the circuit free version may not (Click for a more detailed diagram) ...and solder the generated Composite Sync to the Video Sync pin on the JAMMA biscuit. Take the +5V and ground from the JAMMA biscuit. If you plug in the console you should now have video in the arcade cabinet. If you'd like more details on how to set the circuit out on a bit of stripboard, click here Wiring in the Sound You could wire in stereo sound, but if you do you'll need two audio amps - and stereo isn't JAMMA standard. Put together your audio amp, wire in the left channel from the scart socket. Wire in ground and +12V to your audio amp (from the JAMMA biscuit), then wire in the output to the speaker pins on the JAMMA connector. You should now have sound. Wiring in the Controllers JAMMA only has an eight way joystick and 3 buttons. 6 button cabinets actually have a separate wiring harness for the extra buttons. For the joystick and first 3 buttons it's straightforward. Trace the tracks on the controller board to find the ground (it'll be the track shared by all joystick directions/buttons) wire this into ground on the JAMMA biscuit. Once you've soldered in the common ground wire you need to wire in all the buttons/joystick directions. The 'points' on the controller board you need to solder should look something like this: The yellow parts are exposed metal which can be soldered onto, the green are sealed tracks on the board. For each joystick direction/button solder onto the controller board a wire on the 'non ground' half of the junction point. For the extra three buttons per controller, the easiest thing to do is to cut off the connector on the end of the extra wiring harness, figure out which button goes with each wire, and then just solder them onto the controller board. JAMMA Pinout The JAMMA pinout looks like this: Click here for diagram General Hints If you've followed all of the above you should now have a Saturn in an arcade cabinet. The easiest way to do it is probably Controllers first, then sound and video. If possible, just wire up the start button, joystick and a couple of buttons for one controller. Then plug this into your arcade cabinet, but don't turn the thing on. Then plug the Saturn into a TV as normal, turn the Saturn on and see if the arcade controller works; if it does wire in the rest of the player 1 controls, check it, then do the same for player 2. If it doesn't work then just check all the wiring for loose connections/shorts. Then wire in the sound, check that (you need to turn the arcade cabinet on this time), finally wire in the video. The monitor will need to be adjusted for PAL Saturns, as they are generally set to 60Hz, rather than 50Hz. This is a simple adjustment pot on the monitor board.