Question about Jamma adapters

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I have a Crime City Jamma game. Could any Jamma board that uses the
same controls and orientation plug and play? If I got a Nintendo Jamma
adapter like this one:

http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin [...] =NIN2JAMMA

could I just plug any of the boards listed into the harness and play
the game or is the more to it than that?

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kaz1961 <ssekaz@yahoo.com> wrote:
: I have a Crime City Jamma game. Could any Jamma board that uses the
: same controls and orientation plug and play? If I got a Nintendo Jamma
: adapter like this one:
:
: http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin [...] =NIN2JAMMA
:
: could I just plug any of the boards listed into the harness and play
: the game or is the more to it than that?

Make sure you harness has -5V on it... many jamma games don't, and a lot
of classic games (including nintendo) need them.

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Mark Spaeth mspaeth@mtl.mit.edu
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Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 452-2354 http://rgvac.978.org/~mspaeth

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Keith in NJ <winner@soulshot.com> wrote:
: question...
: would having the -5v hooked up to the harness harm any boards that don't
: normally use the -5?

Nope. They just don't have it connected anywhere on the board.

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Mark Spaeth mspaeth@mtl.mit.edu
50 Vassar St., #38.265 mspaeth@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 452-2354 http://rgvac.978.org/~mspaeth