Planning to 60-1 my Centipede...pointers needed ahead of time.
So I've got this dead Centipede and would like to play all the vertical trackball games on it. I have a 60-1 jamma card I'm planning to put in and will eventually upgrade to a jamma programmable one of some sort.
Anyway, I bought a switching power supply and a jamma harness with the connectors on it. A few questions about the proper approach before I start tearing into it and do it wrong:
1) Should I use the switcher or just wire it up to the existing PS since it seems to be working fine?
2) I was thinking of leaving the old wiring in place to make it easy to switch back. But if I do so, do I need to purchase new molex connectors for everything so I can plug directly into the one on the monitor, control panel etc.? If I do that I'm basically wasting the connectors pre-wired onto the harness. I would need to clip them off. Or should I just plug each connector individually to every button on the control panel?
3) I'm assuming I will lose the light-up feature of the start buttons right? Is there a cool way around that that retains the lights and flashing capabilities?
4) Any other good idea or tips that I should consider first?
Thanks guys!
So I've got this dead Centipede and would like to play all the vertical trackball games on it. I have a 60-1 jamma card I'm planning to put in and will eventually upgrade to a jamma programmable one of some sort.
Anyway, I bought a switching power supply and a jamma harness with the connectors on it. A few questions about the proper approach before I start tearing into it and do it wrong:
1) Should I use the switcher or just wire it up to the existing PS since it seems to be working fine?
2) I was thinking of leaving the old wiring in place to make it easy to switch back. But if I do so, do I need to purchase new molex connectors for everything so I can plug directly into the one on the monitor, control panel etc.? If I do that I'm basically wasting the connectors pre-wired onto the harness. I would need to clip them off. Or should I just plug each connector individually to every button on the control panel?
3) I'm assuming I will lose the light-up feature of the start buttons right? Is there a cool way around that that retains the lights and flashing capabilities?
4) Any other good idea or tips that I should consider first?
Thanks guys!


