Popeye to Donkey Kong Conversion Question

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I'm converting a Popeye to a DK. I understand that Popeye uses a smaller power supply and that there's a difference on for the harness.

I have a Nintendo switching power supply from arcade shop:

http://www.arcadeshop.com/nin-ps/nin-ps.htm

Is it still necessary for me to get a different wiring harness for DK or will the Popeye one work with this power supply? The Popeye power supply still works, I just have this conversion kit PS sitting around..
 
Bump cause I got a guy wanting to buy the wiring harness along with the rest of my popeye lot and I need to see if im okay to sell it to him or if i should keep it.
 
You want to use the AS Switcher with the Popeye harness to run DK? You'll be missing some voltage wires in the Popeye harness. You can however add the necessary wires to the edge connector from the power supply for those missing voltages and use then use it with DK. Check the pinouts of each at the Mike's Arcade website.
 
Wow that sounds hard. Do you know of any guides or anything like that? Thanks for the answer.
 
I did a popeye to DK conversion not too long ago. If memory serves me correct the popeye edge connector is missing a +12v and -5v power. The wiring on mine was run from the edge connector back to the first plug. All I had to do was run those two voltages from the switching power supply to the plug between the PS and edge connector. Popeye only uses +5v and DK uses all three. Once you make the upgrade it will play all the early Dk type boards (popeye, DK, DKjr, DK3).
 
Beware, DK boards sometimes don't run right on non-nintendo power supplies. Some boards work just fine and others have issues. I've spoke to both arcade shop and quartercade about it and they've both confirmed.
 
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