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Anyone undertaking this project does so at there own risk.
I take no responsibility for any damage to equipment or personal injuries resulting from attempting this project.


PC2JAMMA project
Before reading through/undertaking this project, I strongly suggest you read the PC2JAMMA FAQ first

This project mutated out of something else, Originally I had planned to take my existing arcade game boards and have them selectable
from the front of a cabinet, just to eliminate board swapping. Turned out to be a fair amount of work, and not 100% guarenteed to work with all my boards, so I started looking at using a PC emulator instead.

 
 

It then turned into the MAME2JAMMA project and finally became the PC2JAMMA Project.

The project differs from most PC Arcade setups as it alters the PC to fit JAMMA specs, rather than altering the cabinet to fit PC specs. It requires a small amount of hardware, and a special frontend which is capable of running on an arcade monitor.

To give you some idea what the project is about, it's basically a harness; with a PC on one end and a JAMMA arcade cabinet on the other
Something a bit like this.

pc2jamma harness

If you're undertaking this project...
Some experience with electronics is preferable, though you can get by with very little.
See the 'Electronics Free Version' if you don't fancy making up the circuits required.

For this project I only bought the bare essentials of a PC, i.e. mother board, P266, 64MB, hard disk, sound and video card. This keeps the cost of the project nice and low.

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