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I am re-wiring a JAMMAtized Punch Out back to stock... I have absolutely nothing to go by other than the manual. Can someone with a Punch Out cabinet pretty please take a bunch of photos of the wiring...control panel...power supply...monitor... etc. The more detailed the better. I'd be GREATLY indebted to whomever was to do this for me.

Thanks... PM me for my email address if you're willing to help a bro out.
 
It is easy to figure out once you actually have the harness in hand and go to install it. My machine was also JAMMAtized with not a trace of the original harness left. Does your machine still have the little plastic coated metal bands attached to the walls and such for securing the wires to?

I'd take pictures, but I don't have a camera (I've borrowed one from my sister or nephew on occasion).
 
I'll have to check, but I am not sure. Where's the strange 30 pin connector connect up to? In the docs I can only find a 20 pin.
 
I'll have to check, but I am not sure. Where's the strange 30 pin connector connect up to? In the docs I can only find a 20 pin.

There's no 30-pin connector in my machine. The largest connector aside from the 56-pin card edge connector is a 15-pin connector between the main harness and the control panel harness.

Is the 30-pin connector in your cabinet, or is it in a harness you got for the cabinet? And if it's in a harness, is it a PO harness or a PC-10 harness?
 
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It's on the harness I got.... please tell me the guy didn't send the wrong harness?

I don't know anything about a PC-10 harness, but a Punch-Out harness does not have a 30-pin connector. So if you bought what you thought was a Punch-Out harness, then it is either not a Punch-Out harness or it has been hacked.
 
Looking at it... it's an extra harness... the guy sent a harness with an edge connector on one end and a bunch of molex connectors on the other... he also sent a few separate harnesses including one that has a 30 pin on one side (says B020 on the connector) and on the other end there is a 12 pin molex as well as a 3 pin male connector and 2 pin male connector.

He also included 2 more harnesses that look like the go from MOLEX to Sanyo 20EZ connectors.

My guess is this 2nd harness isn't a PO harness...
 
Looking at it... it's an extra harness... the guy sent a harness with an edge connector on one end and a bunch of molex connectors on the other...

That sounds like it could be a Punch-Out harness; though they are not actual Molex connectors (it would be nice if they were, then a PO harness could be built new from scratch). Does it have a green 56-pin solder-tail card edge connector labeled "Mitsumi-Cinch" on the face of it?
 
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I am re-wiring a JAMMAtized Punch Out back to stock... I have absolutely nothing to go by other than the manual. Can someone with a Punch Out cabinet pretty please take a bunch of photos of the wiring...control panel...power supply...monitor... etc. The more detailed the better. I'd be GREATLY indebted to whomever was to do this for me.

Thanks... PM me for my email address if you're willing to help a bro out.

Frizz,
Here is a link to my Punch-Out!! restore. There may be some helpful pics in there. If not, just send me a PM with what you need and I will get them for you.
 
That sounds like it could be a Punch-Out harness; though they are not actual Molex connectors (it would be nice if they were, then a PO harness could be built new from scratch). Does it have a green 56-pin solder-tail card edge connector labeled "Mitsumi-Cinch" on the face of it?


It has a green 56 pin edge connector with the label "87210 121 / UP-054" on it.
 
BTW - How hard is it to find a stock power supply for this thing and is it worth it to keep it "stock"?
 
It has a green 56 pin edge connector with the label "87210 121 / UP-054" on it.

Mine has the same label. The small "Mitsumi-Cinch" text is molded into the plastic on the forward narrow edge. You probably have a Punch-Out harness there, though I don't know if any other Nintendo machines used that same edge connector.

I'm wondering if Mitsumi-Cinch also made the Molex-style connectors for the rest of the harness. I'm looking through their site, but it doesn't look like they currently make any wire-to-wire Molex-style connectors, nor even any card edge connectors. All of their connectors currently listed on their products page are of a more specialized type.
 
Yup...I looked at the small edge and Mitsumi-Edge is there. My guess is the guy sent my this extra harness with the 30 pinner thinking it was part of the Punch Out harness.
 
BTW - How hard is it to find a stock power supply for this thing and is it worth it to keep it "stock"?

I don't know how hard they are to find; I found one (PP-1000A) in a box of "Nintendo parts" on eBay, along with a PO harness and PO PCB cage and various Nintendo non-Punch-Out parts. It is very easy to use a JAMMA-type switcher in a PO machine (you only need +5 and +12, and the manual schematics shows exactly where to connect them), but you'd have to hack the PO harness to do so, or just put Molex crimp terminals, minus the housings, on the ends of short sections of wire and connect them to a switcher, and plug the bare Molex terminals individually into the Molex-style housings in the harness (wouldn't be particularly secure or pretty).

The harness connects to the stock power supply via 2 Molex-style connectors, and they are not real Molex or Molex compatible connectors. The 3rd connector on the stock power supply is an actual Molex brand or Molex compatible connector (the 3 position AC power connector).
 
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BTW - How hard is it to find a stock power supply for this thing and is it worth it to keep it "stock"?

Not hard to find one. I sold a couple of them a month or two ago. I don't think I have another though. Unless you find someone willing to give you a decent price on one, it will cost as much or more then a new switcher.

Personally, I don't care if the power supply is stock on a PO. It's 5vdc not anything complicated. Plus no one recaps the Nintendo power supplies or does any maintenance on them , so you basically have a 35 year old switching power supply.
 
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