WTYB: Konami 36 pin cabinet to jamma board adapter

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I am looking for a Konami 36 pin cabinet adapter that goes to a jamma socket so I can put a jamma PCB in a Pengo cabinet. Anyone have one they want to sell and ship to Canada.
 
Crap Sorry. A Gyruss Konami pinout (that is wired in a converted Pengo cabinet). $15 plus shipping is easier than cutting and wiring to jamma.
 
Thanks all. I bought the Yaton one. I will have to order some fingerboards and connectors from Bob sometime so I can make my own next time.
 
So this was a bad decision. The Yaton one is not pinned out correctly. I brought it home and plugged it in and got a familiar sight (from a previous adapter that I had done for a SZaxxon). The image was a light yellow, blue, green color and not right for sure. I tone everything out and all pins on the adapter are on the wrong sides. I looked at the jammboards.com one and you can tell it is different the +12V basically runs straight down on the JB version but the Yaton is on the other side.

Yaton claim that they have sold a ton of these and never had any problems with them so now I am wondering what the heck is going on. The cabinet is a Pengo cabinet with a Gyruss kit in it. Gyruss was playing when I bought it so I know it is wired properly. Hmm. I think my only option is going to be to cut the wires and solder them directly to the oposite sides of the Yaton adapter.
 
Post a pic of your Gyruss board. I've seen some Konami bootleg boards where they swapped a couple color pins (blue and green, IIRC). If that's the case, then you just need to swap a couple wires around at the harness connector, or at the monitor.
 
I sold the board to someone restoring a Gyruss. Here are a few pictures aswell as one of the jammaboards version. You can see on the JB version Pin 1 on the Konami parts side (12V) goes straight down to pin 6 on the jamma side. On the Yaton version Pin 1 Konami goes to pins 3-4 (5V) jamma. I hope I didn't do any damage to my 60-1 board or my PS.

I also just noticed that the adapter on the Yaton website does not match the adapter that I was sent. It says konami to jamma adapter but it is definitely different than the one on the website.
 

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The harness is not correct for standard Konami. Blue and Green are swapped, and Red and Sync are swapped (I'm willing to bet you had a bootleg board in there). Just swap the pins on that AMP connector (it'll take only a minute to do).
 
I disagree. The pinout that I have shows Sync and Blue on the parts side pins 14, 13. That matches what my picture shows.

CKT SIDE PARTS SIDE
----- -----
A1 -5V B1 +12V
A2 SP 1 B2 SP 1
A3 PL 2 SHOOT 1 B3 PL 2 SHOOT 2
A4 PL 2 LEFT B4 PL 2 RIGHT
A5 1 PLAY START B5 2 PLAY START
A6 PL 1 SHOOT 2 B6 PL 2 UP
A7 PL 1 SHOOT 1 B7 SVC
A8 PL 1 RIGHT B8 PL 1 LEFT
A9 PL 1 UP B9 PL 2 DOWN
A10 COIN 1 B10 COIN 2
A11 PL 1 DOWN B11 COIN CTR
A12 B12
A13 VID GN B13 VID BL
A14 VID RED B14 SYNC
A15 SP 2 B15 SP 2
A16 GND B16 GND
A17 GND B17 GND
A18 +5V B18 +5V
 
I'm sorry, I thought I was looking at the solder-side of the adaptor (since it's lacking the silkscreening shown in the Yaton pics).
Follow those back to the monitor. I think you'll find Blue/Green and Red/Sync swapped at the monitor connection.
 
No problem. I asked them to refund my money or send me the one in the picture and they are sending me a new one and then updating the picture with the one they just sent me.

I don't know if he understands or listened to the fact that the design has all of the signal layers routed incorrectly so if anyone else is ready this be careful if you are going to purchase it.
 
i'd have to agree with matt, the adjustment is simply done at the monitor.
i bet your going to have the same problems with the new replacement.
i just built a jamma adapter for a bootleg hyper olyimpics, same thing with rgb and sync being switched.
 
So I got the replacement "old style" adapter from Yaton on and it works great. This means buyer beware. His new version of the B-04 is pinned out incorrectly and will not work. I have told him this and showed him his two pictures of the different boards and all he did was update his Ebay listing. That means anyone else that buys this is going to have the exact same problem.

Good luck to all and hopefully this helps someone avoid buying his B-04.
 
what does the test switch do on it?

i haven't figured it out. i didn't buy it from yaton but sure looks like the same one. my fire button is not mapped properly so i'm starting to wonder if my adapter is weird or if i don't really have a gyruss in an actual konami cabinet. thanks for the info as i was considering buying another adapter to see if a different adapter works. i don't really want to make one myself
 
Buy an adapter from Arcadeshop and you will know the adapter is fine. The replacement (old style Yaton) worked fine and recently I used an AS version on a Tutankaham and it worked fine aswell. Rather than spend more money though, there should be enough info available to trace that wire back through the adapter to the cabinet and see what is going on.
 
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