{"id":36340,"date":"2024-07-01T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/?p=36340"},"modified":"2024-11-05T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T08:51:21","slug":"jamma-adapters-mid-year-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/jamma-adapters-mid-year-update\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMMA Adapters &#8211; Mid Year Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s been barely any time to work on new designs but I&#8217;ve made some progress. The following new adapters have been designed and are in prototype stage at the moment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Nintendo Cabinet Adapter<\/strong> &#8211; to play JAMMA boards in your DK upright or other cabs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nintendo TKG3 Cabinet Adapter<\/strong> &#8211; to play JAMMA boards in your DK cocktail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nintendo TKG3 to TKG4 Adapter<\/strong> &#8211; converts TKG3 (small) DK board to TKG4 (big) pinout.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Taito Grand Champion<\/strong> &#8211; for the Taito driving game.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Taito Buggy Challenge<\/strong> &#8211; for the other Taito driving game.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cinematronics Ataxx<\/strong> &#8211; for the trackball Cinematronics strategy joystick \/ trackball game. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>MCR Cabinet Adapter<\/strong> &#8211; play JAMMA games in your Midway MCR cabs. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These have been completed and tested and are now either available for sale or soon to be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Atari Cloak and Dagger<\/strong> &#8211; for the 2 joystick Atari Classic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Atari Liberator<\/strong> &#8211; for the Atari trackball game.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Artic Mars<\/strong> &#8211; the the uncommon Artic game that is not a bootleg.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Pit<\/strong> &#8211; The Zilec \/ Centuri boulder dash like game. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jack the Giant Killer<\/strong> &#8211; Cinematronics. Should also be compatible with other Cinematronics \/ Hara Industries games.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SNK Marvin&#8217;s Maze<\/strong> &#8211; For SNK&#8217;s game of the same title, and a couple of other ones. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Polaris<\/strong> &#8211; Taito. May work on other Tatio games.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cook Race<\/strong> &#8211; Common bootleg version of Burgertime. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zaccaria<\/strong>. For games like Jackrabbit, Money Money. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Atari Pole Position<\/strong>. For the popular driving game licensed from Namco \/ Atari<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bally Sente SAC-1<\/strong>. Main adapter board tested and working but adapter requires additional control mappers..<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bally Midway Super Pacman<\/strong> &#8211; For Midway&#8217;s North American release of Super Pacman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Astro Invaders<\/strong> &#8211; Stern \/ Konami. Cage system developed for Stern by Konami. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Astro Fighter<\/strong> &#8211; DECO \/ Sega Gremlin. Unique pinout.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nintendo Donkey Kong TKG3<\/strong> &#8211; For the small 3 stack variant of Donkey Kong and Radar Scope.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DECO Mad Rider \/ Mad Alien<\/strong>. DECO cage system. Unique pinout. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>DECO Cassette<\/strong> &#8211; For the DECO Cassette cage system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Operation Thunderbolt<\/strong> &#8211; for the Taito gun game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are still work in progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Taito L-Shape Space Invaders<\/strong> &#8211; This is for the original Taito, non-North American version of Space Invaders. Prototype stage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tehkan World Cup<\/strong> &#8211; This also covers the other two games in the pinout class, including Tee&#8217;d Off, Gridiron Fight, and of course Tehkan World Cup. This is for the non-bootleg boards that use trackballs. Joystick -&gt; trackball conversion is built in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gorf<\/strong> &#8211; The Midway cage system. Adapter includes video conversion (YUV -&gt; RGB) and sound amplification. All cage games like Wizard of Wor, Gorf, Robby Roto have unique pinouts. Working prototype stage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Wizard of Wor<\/strong> &#8211; Midway cage. See above. Working prototype stage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Atari Warlords<\/strong> &#8211; For the uncommon atari spinner game. Joystick to spinner conversion included for testing. Prototype stage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bally Midway MCR<\/strong>. For the MCR-1, 2, and MCR-3 system boards. This adapter also requires  control mapper boards. Working prototype stage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bally Midway Monoboard<\/strong>. For MCR monoboards. A number of MCR games exist on this system (Two Tigers, Sarge, Demolition Derby), as well as unique games (Rampage, RPM Racing, Xenophobe, Spy Hunter II). Control mappers required. Prototype stage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sega Gremlin G80<\/strong> &#8211; Cage system. For games like Astro Blaster. Supporting only raster for now. Working prototype.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sega Gremlin VIC \/ Dual<\/strong> &#8211; For games like Invinco, Head On 1\/2, Depth Charge and many others. Both Black and White and color games will be supported. Early prototype.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probably one or two more that I&#8217;m forgetting about. I have also switched pcb fabrication to another vendor which produces better boards. There were too many quality issues with the old vendor. Many of the older adapters, about 2 dozen of them, were updated with additional features, better silkscreen quality and improved soldermask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep an eye out for these on my store or this site. Thanks for checking this out and your continued support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been barely any time to work on new designs but I&#8217;ve made some progress. The following new adapters have been designed and are in prototype stage at the moment: These have been completed and tested and are now either available for sale or soon to be released. These are still work in progress. Probably &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/jamma-adapters-mid-year-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JAMMA Adapters &#8211; Mid Year Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36346,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36340\/revisions\/36346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}