Best way to convert Pac-man to 60-n-1

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I have a friend with a Pac-man cab that he wants to put a 60-n-1 board in. I said I would help him out but I would require that he not mess up any original parts.

What is the best way to convert this.

60-n-1 PCB : $110
Lizzard Lick Jamma to Pac adapter: $60
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Arcadeshop control panel: $195
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Total cost $365 plus shipping.


Does anyone make a more pac friendly overlay for this control panel?

Any other suggestion on how to do this?
 
If you are going to put a 60-1 in it, why do you need the pac to jamma board? seems like you just need a jamma harness, and a power supply.
 
If you are going to put a 60-1 in it, why do you need the pac to jamma board? seems like you just need a jamma harness, and a power supply.

I was thinking the same thing but:

I said I would help him out but I would require that he not mess up any original parts.

Myself I would build my own adapter or just buy a pac adapter without the power supply and use a switcher (like an old PC supply). Not too sure what so say about the panel... I would hack up one I've got but that's not an option for everyone :)
 
The pac adapter is to make the Pac-Man cab JAMMA ready without hacking any of the original wiring. I think Pac-Man uses some weird voltages, so perhaps that board does any voltage conversions (I'm not sure). I just bought a similar board for my Gaplus cab so I could install a 48-in-1. I've only got 1 firebutton though (that's all Gaplus has) so I can't play any games with 2 buttons (well, play them effectively :D ), but I'm not cutting a 2nd button into my control panel. With that board, it's pretty much plug and play. Just unplug the harness from the Pac board, plug it into the jamma converter board, then plug in your jamma board. Took me like 5 minutes to convert my cab to the 48-in-1 and I didn't even have to move my Gaplus board.
 
I was going to shit all over this thread, but it's good to hear your friend is not trashing original parts to make this cab, actually. I don't have any advice to offer, but thought I'd comment that I appreciate you preventing him from screwing it up.

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My advice would be to just double up the wiring. undo the wiring that is in the cab and just sit it in a box inside of the cabinet, then just add a jamma harness and switcher to make the game more reliable. dont cut a single wire, just dont remove the old stuff from the cabinet because then it would never be found in the future.

Several years ago when we had 80 games set up in our gameroom, when games constantly went down, we would mame the cabinet, but do this to the wiring so that it could always be restored, we did not remove the board either, it was all left in the cabinet so that it could always be returned
 
I used the JAMMARCADE.COM Pac to JAMMA converter and aside from a single ground wire that deadends on the board, it works awesome. It's much cheaper and running that single ground wire takes all of 20 seconds. You WILL need to use a switcher with it though.
 
My advice would be to just double up the wiring. undo the wiring that is in the cab and just sit it in a box inside of the cabinet, then just add a jamma harness and switcher to make the game more reliable. dont cut a single wire, just dont remove the old stuff from the cabinet because then it would never be found in the future.

Pac power supplies are bullet proof. Change the fuses, clean up the fuse holders and you are done. The LizLick adapter must do the DC conversion, Pac boards take AC as the input. Unless the adapter design/parts suck, he should be golden. Rewiring the cab seems like unnecessary work to me.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Price point is not an issue with this guy so I don't need to do this cheap. I'm only helping him because he was going to do it himself which would have resulted in a hacked up cab. At least this way, he can put it back to pac-man.

I think I'll go with the options I laid out as it should be a five minute setup. (as long as parts are in stock).
 
If you run that control panel aren't you going to have to run some extra wires to the control panel or am I missing something.

I was just thinking the same thing. If you dont wanna harm the original components, remove them and sell them to members who need them, or leave them intact and wire in a jamma harness so it can be converted back if need be. Can arcadeshp sell you a CP without the overlay? im sure you can get a pac overlay from mamemarquees that would suit it better.
 
If you look closely at the LL adapter it has a spot for the control panel and extra buttons to plug into. I don't know the name or style of the molex needed but I just used an old monitor connector and added a few pins.
 
I would print a custom Pac CPO. I think Phet was working on one. There are some Pac CPO files on http://vectorlib.free.fr/PacMan/ You could use the artwork files to tweak one to fit the Arcadeshop control panel.

Here is a multi one on there, no trackball location though:
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Hmmm, you may be correct. Maybe this won't be a 5 minute swap.


Yeah... I didn't think about the trackball. But just pick up a trackball harness from Bob Roberts and you're good as gold... well, you'll also have to run wires for the buttons as the converter uses S1 and S2 for the buttons....
 
So, is throwing in a switching power supply a "must", or will the JAMMA converter / 60-in-1 work without one?
 
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