{"id":517,"date":"2017-08-29T03:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/?p=517"},"modified":"2017-08-29T03:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T03:53:28","slug":"falcon-adapters-popular-but-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/falcon-adapters-popular-but-painful\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon adapters&#8230; popular but painful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently working on designing a Falcon class JAMMA adapter. Let\u2019s just say that it isn\u2019t easy with all the variety in the games out there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got at least a dozen PCBs that use some variant of this pinout. This includes original Falcon games,\u00a0bootleg games from Sega, Konami, Irem and Namco. I didn&#8217;t expect to see it being that widely used, and only realized this when I started to look into it.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t decided on what the final end product will look like, but most likely there will be two main Falcon adapters, plus maybe another one for games that don\u2019t quite fit the class, such as Make Trax and Eyes \/ Ms. Pacman bootleg that are flipped. I really don\u2019t want people to connect these backwards and fry their games&#8230; or my own.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/falcontypes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1552\" height=\"472\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a subset of all the falcon type pinouts\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More information will be available when I figure it all out\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently working on designing a Falcon class JAMMA adapter. Let\u2019s just say that it isn\u2019t easy with all the variety in the games out there. I&#8217;ve got at least a dozen PCBs that use some variant of this pinout. This includes original Falcon games,\u00a0bootleg games from Sega, Konami, Irem and Namco. I didn&#8217;t expect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/29\/falcon-adapters-popular-but-painful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Falcon adapters&#8230; popular but painful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}