Adapter to play jamma games in an Arkanoid cabinet?

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Adapter to play jamma games in an Arkanoid cabinet?

Hey all,
I have an Arkanoid cocktail that I would like to make it able to play all the Arkanoid games. Alas Revenge of Doh and Arkanoid Returns are Jamma. Any suggestion how I could make this work?
Thanks in advance! I am sure someone has tried to do this before!
 
Well you will need to do a little research to confirm this but I believe the original arkanoid is the same pin out as jungle king/jungle hunt, elevator action and maybe a couple other taito games. If I remember correctly Hudson arcade (Mark Spaeth) recently posted taito to jamma adapters for sale here. So if I'm correct on both of the things I mention above then I believe you could probably wire your cab up jamma and swap in any of the three games you want. Or get a jamma switcher. Although I haven't done the research so there could be issues I'm not thinking of.
 
Hey all,
I have an Arkanoid cocktail that I would like to make it able to play all the Arkanoid games. Alas Revenge of Doh and Arkanoid Returns are Jamma. Any suggestion how I could make this work?
Thanks in advance! I am sure someone has tried to do this before!

My Arkanoid cab actually came with Revenge of Doh (the one I sold you) and a Jamma harness installed. Since I prefer the original Arkanoid I picked up the parts from Bob Roberts to build my own Arkanoid to Jamma adaptor. Took all of about an hour with a soldering iron and a movie on in the background.

Here's the parts you'll need to pick up from Bob:
Adaptor Starter Kit Wire, Pre-soldered EC & Fingerboard 22/44 - $10
.156 Housing with pins 12 pos (Trifurcon Pins) - $1.30

The adaptor starter kit is quite nice. The adaptor board is already soldered to the edge connector that would connect to your Arkanoid pcb so all you have to do is re-route the lines on the adaptor. The other part is to hook up the power connections since Arkanoid uses the separate pins for power. You might need like another 2' of extra wire to connect the power lines to the Jamma adaptor but you can just steal spare scraps you might have lying around for this. Just solder the connections on the adaptor, throw a Jamma harness in and you've got a simple solution to play any of your Arkanoid pcbs.
 
Thanks for the info Bongo.......But alas I am not very handy with the soldering iron. I dont mind spending the money to buy an already made one or a used one that is for sale!
 
I did custom wire some ROD (JAMMA) --> Arkanoid adapters in the past, but since people seem to want JAMMA --> Taito Classic adapters for multi-boards, I'd be willing to do a run of boards...
 
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