Going down the route of building an arcade cabinet..

[Whoop]

Hi all,

Well I'm getting a DOA arcade cab at the weekend and not being totally convinced it will ever work again I thought I'd fit a pc inside it

I have checked the general sites for info and it seems I-Pac or Happ are good arcade to PC converters but there is very little in the way of UK links.

Can anyone shed any light on where I would buy the necessary hardware to interface the two?

Oh I've also seen a few on the bay.. hmm not my favourite place to shop

Thanks,


Whoop

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Anywhere we could point you would be classed as an OcUK competitor so it's verboten. Look around for some MAME forums.

 

[Blackhawk47]

seeing as we cant list competitors ... how about modding it yourself. im talking about screen and all. (old crt maybe ?)

 

[DigitalReaper]

Just be careful if you mod an old CRT into it... they use very high voltages (around 20kv) and the metal shielding is usually live not grounded

 

[Chaos]

I done this a while ago, I bought an old jamma cab then took out the board and used the j-pac to connect a pc to it, I also bought an arcade vga gfx card from the same place so that I could use the arcade screen with the pc. It worked a treat, unfortunately I needed space so had to sell it

Email my trust if you want links etc.

 

[Whoop]

Great I'll email you now Chaos

I guess competitors could come into it though given the specific nature of converter boards and/or wiring looms I never thought about it.

Cheers all,


Whoop