My first conversion, make a kick harness or buy one?

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My first conversion, make a kick harness or buy one?

I have a Golden Tee in a generic cab that I'm converting to Tekken 3, I'm going to get a new JAMMA harness to start fresh and save the other one to go into storage with Golden Tee. Looking at the manual the kick harness doesn't need that many wires, should I buy a generic harness and only use what I need or just make one from scratch? I don't have any harness making tools. Any recommendations on sources for harnesses? I'm getting sticks and buttons from tornado terry.
 
it's a harness for an edge connector. I tried sourcing that same part for a Suzuka 8 Hours many many years ago and was never able to find anything for it.

however, today we have Ken Falta and Golden Age Arcade Parts. he might be able to make something. http://www.goldenagearcadeparts.com/

you could go uber ghetto and solder wires to the edge connector if you got desperate enough. :p
 
I'm in the process of rebuilding a cab into a multi-pcb cab (7 in1) with Tekken 1, Tekken 2, Tekken 3, Tekken Tag Tournament and Soul Edge .. and whatever other Namco System 11/12 I can fit in there. The Tekken tag tournament is the primary PCB (if I ever get it fixed) since that's what the cab's art is going to be.

With that said I needed to come up with kick harnesses for all of the games. I had a heck of a time tracking down the proper edge connector. I ended up having to buy them from China. I have 5 of them coming if the work like they are supposed to I will probably buy more and make some more Namco kick harnesses to sell.
 
Yeah I won't do that. I considered it but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The one Tekken Tag Tournament PCB I saw on eBay had the wires soldered on.
 
if you're gonna multi them all with one of those Chinese 6-in-1 boards you're going to need diodes on all your kick harness wiring. I also can't imagine how complicated that shit would get if you tried to run them all with stereo sound. :p
 
you need like a PC power supply for that. I actually have one of those that I'm not going to use. I never even opened the box. probably got it 2 years ago.
 
you need like a PC power supply for that. I actually have one of those that I'm not going to use. I never even opened the box. probably got it 2 years ago.

PC power supplies are easy :) Soooooo what are you going to do with it? ..and how many daughter cards do you have :)

I am working with a TMNT cab which has TONS of room :)
 
I have no idea. I'd intended on using it for 6, so maybe there's 6 in there. maybe not. I had good luck with one of the Chinese ones for my "Multi Kombat", and happened to find another. also, still sitting in the shipping box.

since my job turned from fixing ticket games and the like to fixing old video games I have zero desire to do anything with my games at home now.
 
The guy I got the board from found an extra kick harness so it's on the way, USPS says the board'll be here today. I have a new jamma harness, extra wire and connectors coming from Twisted Quarter. Sticks and buttons are on the way from tornado Terry. Hopefully I don't screw it up too bad. I have family coming Saturday for Christmas eve so I probably Won't start on it till after that.

Any tips/advice for a first timer? I'm great at wiring, the CP has me a little nervous.

what size hole should I drill for the buttons?
 
My tekken 3 board came in the mail today, I popped it in my robocop cab and it's playing blind. It has a lcd in it and when it comes on the screen says "no video" but it'll coin up and sound like it's playing. I tried plugging the vga cord from the screen directly into the board but it says "signal type not supported"

Any ideas? Robocop plays fine.
 
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