freeder23
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Yes, I have an Ultracade. Feel free to chastise me. Yes, I was stupid.... I bought it on a whim at an arcade auction because it had Street FIghter II and my loves that game... Anyway, now I am trying to make it right.
The Ultracade I have is one of the conversion kits that converts a Jamma cabinet. I'm guessing the Ultracade dates back to around 2000 or 2001 time frame. The cabinet was originally a Killer Instict II from 1996 era. What I want to do is take the Ultracade PC inside and install Windows on it. Then I could install a front end and MAME. Is this even possible? Upon further inspection of the cabinet it appears that the video and keyboard inputs from the PC plug into some type of hardware adapter that is powered by the PC. My hope, is this adapter would still work after installing MAME. Has anyone ever done this? Is it even possible? Am I better off just ripping everything out and starting over? If so, is there a relatively simple way to be able to use the existing arcade monitor?
Thanks in advance for the help!
The Ultracade I have is one of the conversion kits that converts a Jamma cabinet. I'm guessing the Ultracade dates back to around 2000 or 2001 time frame. The cabinet was originally a Killer Instict II from 1996 era. What I want to do is take the Ultracade PC inside and install Windows on it. Then I could install a front end and MAME. Is this even possible? Upon further inspection of the cabinet it appears that the video and keyboard inputs from the PC plug into some type of hardware adapter that is powered by the PC. My hope, is this adapter would still work after installing MAME. Has anyone ever done this? Is it even possible? Am I better off just ripping everything out and starting over? If so, is there a relatively simple way to be able to use the existing arcade monitor?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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