Difference between revisions of "Neo Geo Arcade Cabinet"
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* [https://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=sw2vgada2a Extron SW2 VGA DA2] VGA / Audio switch - $20. This is to switch between video/audio output of pi2jamma and GBS8200 | * [https://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=sw2vgada2a Extron SW2 VGA DA2] VGA / Audio switch - $20. This is to switch between video/audio output of pi2jamma and GBS8200 | ||
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Revision as of 19:53, 27 January 2018
Neo Geo arcade cabinet info. I have had a vector Starwars Arcade Cabinet for quite some time. I had a Karate Champ Arcade Cabinet for several years as well. I sold it to Aftershock Retrogames a few years ago to make room for something that's more useful.
Components
Gathered slowly over the course of a few years, finally picked up steam later in 2017.
- Cabinet - $0. Free from a friend who said "Hey do you want an NBA JAM cabinet?" It wasn't one, it was really a gambling machine with a secret switch to toggle between some cherry master board and Rim Rockin Basketball.
- Controls - $15. some guy on craigslist was selling a bunch of HAPP joysticks and buttons.
- CRT Monitor - $75. Facebook deal, came from a Facebook arcade group that's in my region. Originally from a TechnoMotion DDR clone. Bought it thinking it was CGA (240p) but it's VGA (480p) which made the design moderately complex.
- Neo Geo MV-1C - $100ish on ebay. Had a terrible soldering job and was flakey. Carefully de-soldered wires and instead used a [https://www.neogeofanclub.com/projects/neobiosmasta-og NeoBiosMasta to mount the bios.
- GBS8220 - Upscaler, Came with Neo Geo board. Cheap chinese board, works out of the box but picture is poor.
- Arduino Uno - $20. This is used to speak i2c to the GBS8200 to make it less shitty using gbscontrol. This lets it scale video without any additional aliasing, removes some video noise, etc. It looks much better.
- Custom Marquee - $33. I purchased from GameOnGrafx after seeing a few people recommended it. Artwork is from Handré de Jager. It's absurd and I love it. Since this was going to be a mame cab and Neo Geo, went with the 4 slot style template and customized it after getting Handre's blessing.
- pi2jamma - €109. JAMMA adapter for Rpi that handles video output to 240p via GPIO. This may not have been the right decision with my 480p monitor. It's not the fault of pi2jamma however.
- Extron SW2 VGA DA2 VGA / Audio switch - $20. This is to switch between video/audio output of pi2jamma and GBS8200
- DROK TDA7297 - $8.50. 15w stereo audio amp. As the reviews say, it works really really well. Only annoyance is its blue LED is far too bright. I put some nail polish over it to dim it. Hopefully that doesn't start a fire.
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