Hi Cueball,
I'm attepting to do the same thing Demogo is doing. I like your idea here:
ok. we know that the wires for the 49 way sticks go to the control panel, but we also know that on an game with 8 way sticks dont need all of those directional controls, but need those wires for the buttons.
So if you buy a connector that fits the connector on the harness for the 49 way stick, you can then take the wires which are used for the 8 way stick and run them there. and then take the other wires and run them to the buttons.
basically you are making an adaptor to the gauntlet control panel connector which will adapt your 8 way stick and buttons to the existing harness.
But I have questions.
After tracing or trying to trace my cables in the GL cab...
In the control panel, there are 4 connectors that are keyed for p1 through p4. Each of these has 14 wires into it. The connector that plugs into the control panel itself breaks off 4 wires for the buttons and 10 wires connect in a connector on the the 49way stick.
On the Gauntlet Legends board, I see 5 connectors plugging in. One is labeled for the coin door. Two are labelled Gun1 and Gun2 which have 6 wires on them. Then there are two more connectors which are unlabelled on the board, but one of which in my cab has a stick on it saying player3. These are 10 wires each and I'm guessing are for player3 and player4 49 way joystick connections.
So maybe player1 and player2 do come off the jamma harness and p3 and p4 are directly connected. I'm unsure what gun1 and gun2 are doing unless those are buttons for p3/p4. The wire counts don't seem to add up right.
Here is the link to the game manual:
http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/GauntletLegends.man.pdf
The end goal is to be able to do 4 players still with Gauntlet Legends using 8 ways sticks and a standard res monitor and be able to swap to other games via the jamma harness. I'm unsure how the 8ways hook up to this gameboard set and what will be required to change to get to the end goal.