Irem to JAMMA Adapter

Description

Allows you to use your Irem classic pre-JAMMA game, in a JAMMA cabinet or a super gun device.

Irem or International Rental Electronics Machines, started producing arcade games in the late 1970s. In the early to mid 1980s they released a number of arcade games on similar hardware which consisted of a sandwich of three or fours boards stacked together.

The pinout used by this hardware remained mostly unchanged throughout the years with one small exception. The exception is a small variation in how the coin counters are wired. The adapter provides a jumper to handle the variation, but unless you really need to have working coin counters, you can just simply ignore this feature.

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Pinout

This adapter follows the following pinout scheme:

SOLDER SIDEPARTS SIDE
GNDGND
+5V+5V
+5V+5V
COIN1SVC
P1DOWNP1UP
P2DOWNP2UP
NCVBLUE
VGREENVRED
P2B1P1B1
SPK+SPK-
+12V+12V
+12V+12V
VSYNCCOIN2
COUNT2NC
P1STARTP2START
P2B2P1B2
P2RIGHTP1RIGHT
P2LEFTP1LEFT
COUNT2COUNT1
NCNC
GNDGND
GNDGND

(PCB edge connector facing away, list is ordered right to left)

Compatible Games

This is the list of compatible games that can be used with this adapter:

The adapter has been tested with genuine Irem boards and several bootlegs for compatibility.

Revision History:

Rev 1.0: Obsolete.

Rev 1.1: Corrected the pinout. This is the currently available version.

Rev 1.1: Corrected the pinout. This is the currently available version.

Specifications

Board Size: 45mm x 112mm
Current Carrying Capacity: 5V – 12A, 12V-3A