FS: NBA Showtime / NFL Blitz Sportstation 3.0 PCB

Yes it includes the harddrive.

The Sportstation is a different boardset altogether. Its the Vegas board. Your Seattle board cant be upgraded any higher for that series of games.

The boardset I have will work in your machine, but there may be some wiring that is different for the controls. It depends on if you have the 49 way joysticks connectors. IF not then you would have to use 8 way joysticks with it. Power and video wise you are good though. Without being able to see how your cabinet is wired I dont know about the controls though.

On a side note: Your seattle board can be changed to run several other games. But Mace: the Dark age would be the only one I have a kit for that would work with joysticks. The rest of the games are driving, flying or shooting games and require different controls.
 
Yes it includes the harddrive.

The Sportstation is a different boardset altogether. Its the Vegas board. Your Seattle board cant be upgraded any higher for that series of games.

The boardset I have will work in your machine, but there may be some wiring that is different for the controls. It depends on if you have the 49 way joysticks connectors. IF not then you would have to use 8 way joysticks with it. Power and video wise you are good though. Without being able to see how your cabinet is wired I dont know about the controls though.

On a side note: Your seattle board can be changed to run several other games. But Mace: the Dark age would be the only one I have a kit for that would work with joysticks. The rest of the games are driving, flying or shooting games and require different controls.

It's a dedicated 99 NFL Blitz cab with 49 way joy's. It has been upgraded to 2000 Gold. What other wiring would I need? This is for a friend on mine. He bought my machine and wants to upgrade it to a Sportstation. Thanks

JJ
 
Well I've never owned a Dedicated Blitz cab, so Im not positive, but I think you have everything you need already. Just plug and play the new boardset. (You may want to ask around about that though since I dont know for sure) I would recommend that if you have a PC style power supply that you change it to a switching power supply since the Vegas boards like a little more juice sometimes, and the switching PSU can be tweaked for that.
 
Well I've never owned a Dedicated Blitz cab, so Im not positive, but I think you have everything you need already. Just plug and play the new boardset. (You may want to ask around about that though since I dont know for sure) I would recommend that if you have a PC style power supply that you change it to a switching power supply since the Vegas boards like a little more juice sometimes, and the switching PSU can be tweaked for that.

yes, I think you need more juice to run the vegas.. I think the wiring difference is that they push +5 and -12 into the board through the HDD connection on the vegas board. Usually the seattle board powers the HDD from that connection.
 
yes, I think you need more juice to run the vegas.. I think the wiring difference is that they push +5 and -12 into the board through the HDD connection on the vegas board. Usually the seattle board powers the HDD from that connection.

Thats kinda misleading, and not really true.

The harddrive cable is standard 3.5" IDE with no power, the power cord itself is typical +5,Ground,Ground,+12.. so there is no -12 to worry about

Both boards are standard Jamma+. So there is no -12 on the jamma either.
What I meant about more juice is that most PC power supplies get weak and the +5 output drops to 4 - 4.5, this will cause issues with the Vegas PCB, its needs the full +5 volts as well as the full +12 to spin the harddrive. Which is why I recommend a switching PSU so you can adjust it to the desired power settings,

The seattle does have a small 2.5" connector as well as the 3.5", but the factory use is the 3.5".
 
yes, I think you need more juice to run the vegas.. I think the wiring difference is that they push +5 and -12 into the board through the HDD connection on the vegas board. Usually the seattle board powers the HDD from that connection.

that connector's an output, not an input. you still power the hard drive off that plug just like any other disk-based game.

it's actually a very convenient spot for metering +5 too, since it's the same feed as what any of the roms on the board get.

a Vegas board doesn't require anymore voltage than a Seattle does. they're actually pretty frugal with power, I've seen Vegas games still work with maladjusted power supplies as low as 4.9V. I personally keep my Sportstation at 5.1 (you shouldn't go any higher with these) at the HD plug/roms, after I swapped out the JAMMA board, my original one had burned up +5 contacts on the JAMMA edge... that's why you don't feed these too much power, or else that happens. and then other people never clean their edge connectors, which further contributes to that.

and mine came in bubble wrap.
 
that connector's an output, not an input. you still power the hard drive off that plug just like any other disk-based game.

it's actually a very convenient spot for metering +5 too, since it's the same feed as what any of the roms on the board get.

a Vegas board doesn't require anymore voltage than a Seattle does. they're actually pretty frugal with power, I've seen Vegas games still work with maladjusted power supplies as low as 4.9V. I personally keep my Sportstation at 5.1 (you shouldn't go any higher with these) at the HD plug/roms, after I swapped out the JAMMA board, my original one had burned up +5 contacts on the JAMMA edge... that's why you don't feed these too much power, or else that happens. and then other people never clean their edge connectors, which further contributes to that.

and mine came in bubble wrap.

Next time I have a chance, I will take a pic. On my dedicated showtime and on the kit sportstation, there is a connector coming off the power supply that powers the fans, the hdd and is pushing power into the vegas board throught that connector..

now if this was factory or a recommended mod, I don't know. But both cabs were done like that. All the seattle boards I have seen were using that connector to power the HDD.

My showtime must have had an edge connector issue as they also jumpered wires from the harness to the pcb.
 
Just pointing out: The golden tee boards do something similar, while it was originally designed as an 'output' to power the hard drive to, since it's linked to the 5,12,ground you can also input the power through there (all the power lines are tied together, it doesn't matter where it gets into the board). It's similar to running a house off of a generator, you can hook a generator into a power outlet in your house, and it'll feed back into the fuse panel and power all the other breakers from that one outlet.
 
Just pointing out: The golden tee boards do something similar, while it was originally designed as an 'output' to power the hard drive to, since it's linked to the 5,12,ground you can also input the power through there (all the power lines are tied together, it doesn't matter where it gets into the board). It's similar to running a house off of a generator, you can hook a generator into a power outlet in your house, and it'll feed back into the fuse panel and power all the other breakers from that one outlet.

good shot. makes sense.
 
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