MilitiaMan
Well-known member
Ok ... so I finally (after purchasing the board a year ago) get around to building a Multi Williams control panel for my Robotron cabinet and hooking up the MultiWilliams boardset.
First, let me just say that this thing (JROK boardset) is awesome. If you don't have one, I highly recommend it!
On to my problem ... I wired the cabinet for Jamma and pulled a brand new JAMMA harness from my pile o' stuff. After connecting everything up, I realize that my JAMMA loom does not have a JAMMA pin in the "25 slot" and that I specifically need this input for smartbomb and player 2 flap in Joust.
So ... I pull apart an old JAMMA harness I had lying around and snag a JAMMA pin out of it to put into my new JAMMA harness in the 25 slot. Well ... it doesn't fit that well and I think I might not be getting a good connection to the Jamma board. The smartbomb button works "most of the time" but not every time and when I flap in a two player game of Joust I get one flap for every 2 or three times I hit the button.
I really do not want to buy a new JAMMA harness and have to re-wire the entire thing ... though I guess that is an option.
I guess I could solder the smartbomb wire directly to the PCB, but I am not the best solder worker on earth and I don't want to "eff up the board". Also, I don't like to have a lot of "hackery" going on in my cabinets.
Any other suggestions?
I really need to flap faster!
Thanks in advance.
Steve
MM
First, let me just say that this thing (JROK boardset) is awesome. If you don't have one, I highly recommend it!
On to my problem ... I wired the cabinet for Jamma and pulled a brand new JAMMA harness from my pile o' stuff. After connecting everything up, I realize that my JAMMA loom does not have a JAMMA pin in the "25 slot" and that I specifically need this input for smartbomb and player 2 flap in Joust.
So ... I pull apart an old JAMMA harness I had lying around and snag a JAMMA pin out of it to put into my new JAMMA harness in the 25 slot. Well ... it doesn't fit that well and I think I might not be getting a good connection to the Jamma board. The smartbomb button works "most of the time" but not every time and when I flap in a two player game of Joust I get one flap for every 2 or three times I hit the button.
I really do not want to buy a new JAMMA harness and have to re-wire the entire thing ... though I guess that is an option.
I guess I could solder the smartbomb wire directly to the PCB, but I am not the best solder worker on earth and I don't want to "eff up the board". Also, I don't like to have a lot of "hackery" going on in my cabinets.
Any other suggestions?
I really need to flap faster!
Thanks in advance.
Steve
MM

