Newmex
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So in an effort not to destroy my pacman I have done the following. I have an original pacman I installed a Arcade SD PCB with a pac to jamma adapter from Mike's arcade. All original wiring is in tact, and I built a nice multicade control panel with additional buttons, a wico 8 way stick and a track ball. I made a tap to get power to the power supply off the monitor that powers the adapter.
Everything was very plug and play and it's been a fun game without destroying the ability to convert back some day if I wanted to. My last piece is connecting the trackball. I know the pin out is essentially up, down, left, right, +5 and ground. What would be the least invasive way to connect this? Could I jumper the track ball directions off the joystick, then connect +5 and ground to the power supply?
There looks like there is opportunity to solder directly to the adapter, but it's not labeled. So I'm not 100% sure where to connect. Picture attached.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
Everything was very plug and play and it's been a fun game without destroying the ability to convert back some day if I wanted to. My last piece is connecting the trackball. I know the pin out is essentially up, down, left, right, +5 and ground. What would be the least invasive way to connect this? Could I jumper the track ball directions off the joystick, then connect +5 and ground to the power supply?
There looks like there is opportunity to solder directly to the adapter, but it's not labeled. So I'm not 100% sure where to connect. Picture attached.
Thanks to anyone who can help!

