Connecting an xbox360 to an arcade cabinet

tigerstyle

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Is there a way to do this without slaughtering the jamma harness? Has anyone ever attempted to do this? I would love to do this with my 360, and google is spitting out non-sense.. I want to run this on a regular standard rez monitor.

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You should be able to do this fairly easily. Get a Jamma fingerboard and a European RGB SCART cable (I'm assuming here that NTSC 360's will work in RGB mode...), cut the SCART plug off and match up the composite sync, red, green, blue and ground to the fingerboard.

Controllers are going to be another task, I'd take a 360 controller apart and see if the D-pad and buttons work with a common ground. If they do, then it's just a simple matter of wiring those up to the finger board - solder wires to the contact pads and run them to the appropriate pins on the fingerboard. If they *don't* use a common ground, then you'll have to build a custom control panel harness with the wiring scheme of the Xbox controller.

-Ian
 
You might also want to ask norton9478. Seems like he had a thread here where he was selling some X-Box's that were set up to put right into a jamma cab. He might have some good info for you. I hope im thinking of the right person.
 
You might also want to ask norton9478. Seems like he had a thread here where he was selling some X-Box's that were set up to put right into a jamma cab. He might have some good info for you. I hope im thinking of the right person.

You can buy adapters to hook up a regular XBOX to a Jamma cabinet. I don't believe there are any for the 360's yet.

I personally would use a regular XBOX instead of a 360. The regular XBOXes can run anything up to CPS3 without any issues or hangups. The adapters to run these in a Jamma cab are also readily available and only cost about $40 + shipping.
 
Getting controls to work on 360 could be a pain in the ass. The 360 has some kind of USB security thing going on for controllers, so you can't just run wires into it. You'd either have to disassemble an actual wired controller and run leads off of it or pick up one of those adapters that let you plug whatever into a 360. Can't remember the brand name offhand, but they run about $80.
 
Aren't there a whole bunch of guys out there that made custom controllers for Street Fighter IV using arcade parts? I think the controller part has been done many times.

Video on making arcade controller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G0YUpfV1hE

Here is a complete cab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSolIurgZHI

Yeah it's doable, just takes some small soldering and breaking apart a controller or two. Or putting something together based on a keyboard or something larger and one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Xfps-360-Keyboard-Mouse-Adapter-Xbox/dp/B0010ZH3V8 . Really comes down to individual preference.
 
For the X360 you need to hack a controller. For everything else there are small PCBs that come with terminals that you insert wires into for the signal inputs.
 
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