A little less than a year ago, Frank_fjs (creator of the Sentinel supergun) came up with the design of two separate boards that, when connected together, act as a proper jamma extender. The boards are connected via two cables: a 24-pin ATX cable responsible for power, video and audio, and a 34-pin IDC cable responsible […]
Arcade power supplies are designed to be installed inside of arcade cabinets, where they are safe from hands, kids, and pets. Supergun users however often use arcade PSUs out in the open, where the exposed power terminals pose a serious safety hazard. 3D printed terminal covers solve this problem by encasing the terminals in plastic, […]
UD Game Tech makes a popular controller adapter called the UD-USB Decoder (AKA “Undamned Converter”) that adapts Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, and PS4 controllers to arcade format, for use with arcade game PCBs and superguns. Last week he issued a firmware update to bring support to even more popular PS4 joysticks: UD-USB & UD-CPS2 […]
The RGB-Pi team just released the highly anticipated Jamma RGB-Pi board for the Raspberry Pi 2b, 3b and 3b+ models. This add-on (also named “hat” in the RP world) is a double-sided PCB that sits on top of the Pi’s GPIO pins and turns the tiny computer into a fully functional device that can be […]
TR Fight Stick is creating a metal shell for the Neo Geo MVS motherboard, For those who use the MVS as a home console. I recently covered how cheap and plentiful MVS still are, and how easy they are to treat like an AES console. I have previously covered TR Fight Stick’s other heavy metal […]
Tim M AKA gc8tech, the arcade tech who maintains 168 arcade cabinets at 1UP Arcade Brisbane, has started a YouTube channel. The content is excellent and covers arcade hardware topics like power supply selection, ideal motherboard revisions, etc. While there are a lot of great arcade gaming channels, few are by someone with as much […]
After announcing it back in February 2019, Undamned just showed the InfiniKey de-suicide board for Capcom’s CPS hardware. While the CPS2 version of the InfiniKey revives all known B-boards (Capcom implemented the “Suicide battery” into the entire CPS2 catalog), its CPS1 counterpart will only resurrect the following 7 troublesome games (the remaining library is basically […]
For years people have discussed the concept of an open-source supergun (devices used to connect arcade game PCBs to TV and PVMs), and the era is now upon us with the launch of Minigun by Frank_fjs, creator of the Sentinel Supergun. The Minigun is designed with simplicity, cost, easy of construction, and safety in mind. […]
Loïc *WydD* Petit undertook the massive job of writing a complete PCB trace-out for the Capcom CPS-2 Arcade B-Boards (game boards). There were around 850 traces in total, and he has shared his work in a Google doc. Hopefully this will be archived and preserved for posterity. I considered this as my holiday puzzle. When […]
Irken Labs has released a successor to their JVS-PAC, which is basically a keyboard encoder for JVS IO boards, so you can use the direct JVS wiring standard on, say, a MAME PC without re-wiring anything. The advantage of JVS-PAC 2 compared to an ultimarc JPAC is, for example, direct usage of the JVC IO […]
