Mostly known as the creator of mod boards like the NESRGB and the 2600RGB, Tim Worthington recently unveiled a slew of new arcade-related devices (and a Scart switch box) that’s he has been working on for a while. In an official press release style announcement, he briefly went through the functions of each device. So […]
Mike aka RGB, developer of the high-end Home Arcade System (HAS) supergun, is now accepting orders for the much anticipated and requested JAMMA extension harness. Similar to Benime’s extension cables that I acquired and briefly reviewed last year, RGB‘s dual-PCB harness will significantly alleviate the wear and tear effect on the supergun’s edge connector, that […]
Antonio Villena has designed a plug-and-play device for easily installing MiSTer in an arcade cabinet, which also supports Raspberry Pi when combined with πCRT. I covered some exclusive technical details of the JAMMA Interface in my latest video. Antonio also announced a new Supergun that he’s designed. It will work with arcade PCBs and is […]
Arthrimus recently announced, through an Arcade-Projects thread, his latest on-going project, the Console Jammaizer. Acquiring (and maintaining) arcade boards nowadays is by no means a walk in the park, so for years cabinet owners have opted for different solutions to take full advantage of their setups like: GroovyMame via ArcadeVGA, Raspberry Pi via Jamma adapters, […]
A little less than a year ago, Frank_fjs (creator of the Sentinel supergun) came up with the design of two separate boards that, when connected together, act as a proper jamma extender. The boards are connected via two cables: a 24-pin ATX cable responsible for power, video and audio, and a 34-pin IDC cable responsible […]
I asked if someone could create 3D printable JAMMA key, and Greg Collins designed one. JAMMA keys prevent arcade PCBs from being connected with reverse polarity, which could kill the PCB. For some reason, the tiny pieces of plastic were hard to come by and expensive. Now they can be printed for pennies. The print […]
The RGB-Pi team just released the highly anticipated Jamma RGB-Pi board for the Raspberry Pi 2b, 3b and 3b+ models. This add-on (also named “hat” in the RP world) is a double-sided PCB that sits on top of the Pi’s GPIO pins and turns the tiny computer into a fully functional device that can be […]
For years people have discussed the concept of an open-source supergun (devices used to connect arcade game PCBs to TV and PVMs), and the era is now upon us with the launch of Minigun by Frank_fjs, creator of the Sentinel Supergun. The Minigun is designed with simplicity, cost, easy of construction, and safety in mind. […]
Irken Labs has released a successor to their JVS-PAC, which is basically a keyboard encoder for JVS IO boards, so you can use the direct JVS wiring standard on, say, a MAME PC without re-wiring anything. The advantage of JVS-PAC 2 compared to an ultimarc JPAC is, for example, direct usage of the JVC IO […]
The team behind the RGB-Pi, one of my two favorite Raspberry Pi RGB “hats” (see below) has just teased an upcoming JAMMA adapter! What made the original RGB-Pi stand out to me was it’s simple hardware design, matched with excellent software that boots each game in it’s original resolution and refresh rates. As long as […]
