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Excellent guide. Had my machine up and running in minutes. 

It is a SNK Guerilla War machine I picked up for $150.. Installed the J-pac and used Quickres and Soft15k and all went well..   Only I have one small problem.. I have a slight vertical wiggle/flicker.. I cleaned and adjusted all pots and got the picture damn near perfect and clear.. Only I still have this wiggle/flicker.. 

I tried changing resolution and the flicker/wiggle went away, But the resolution was too large for the screen so everything was enormous and cut off... 

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I understand you may get some flicker displaying windows desktop at 640x480 on a 15k monitor- this is normal to see a little shimmering.. But, when you load up a mame game, how does it look then? Should be spot on old skool perfect?
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the flicker/wiggle is less, but still there.. not as noticeable on games like Galaga, but you can see it on any Pacman or board layout type game..   

I am also wondering how I can adjust the height of the Image.. when centered I lose part of the bottom where your extra lives are and just a tad off the top where the scores are..
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there is likely an adjustment pot on your chassis for that, but you'll need to head over to the tech forum to discuss your monitor problem, personally i cannot help- i know just enough about monitors to leave them alone. .. another few posts and your into the tech forum..
 
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Thank You Shark... On my way to the tech's...
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I've been wondering.. does having a solid state hdd improve anything?
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A solid state HD would give you a marginal quicker boot time.
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Oh, not worth it then. I've never owned one even for pc gaming.
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Thanks for the step by step all in one post Beer
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Another satisfied customer. 10 minutes to set up, works a treat!
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good stuff guys..
 
im delighted some of you are finding this thread useful.
 
Originally posted by Aran Aran wrote:

Good post Thumbs Up now made sticky :)
 
i think the drawing pin fell off when the forum was upgraded..
 
 
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Originally posted by TheSharkfactor TheSharkfactor wrote:

good stuff guys..
 
im delighted some of you are finding this thread useful.
 
Originally posted by Aran Aran wrote:

Good post Thumbs Up now made sticky :)
 
i think the drawing pin fell off when the forum was upgraded..
 
 

More than usefull! Thumbs Up

Now I'm at the stage where I can hook the PC up to my cab.
I have a lot of mame roms from about 5-6 years ago and wondered if they will work with win7 64.
Do I need updated roms or any other update file?  Also is it possible to get Neo Geo roms working on mame?
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neogeo roms work on mame provided you have the neogeo bios file (keep it in the mame roms folder)..
 
 
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Im hoping to do this, ive now ordered my J-Pac so once that gets here I will try and hook up pc and see how I get on.

Great instructions so fingers crossed.

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Originally posted by TheSharkfactor TheSharkfactor wrote:

good stuff guys..
 
im delighted some of you are finding this thread useful.
 
Originally posted by Aran Aran wrote:

Good post Thumbs Up now made sticky :)
 
i think the drawing pin fell off when the forum was upgraded..
 
 
 
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Yeah I had a sticky too before the upgrade last year.... no idea at all what it was now though...
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Originally posted by retromax retromax wrote:

Yeah I had a sticky too before the upgrade last year.... no idea at all what it was now though...
 
maybe the shame cabs thread?
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Hi

I got my Jpac in the post this morning so am hoping to play with it tonight. When I purchased it I was expecting it to have usb inputs but its vga and 2 ps2 connections. I understand the vga goes from my pc to vga on jpac but it also came with a normal ps2 to usb cable so do I assume that the usb cable goes in any pc usb slot and then in the ps2 connnection on the jpac and the other ps2 connection is for a ps2 keyboard? if thats right I have to go and buy a ps2 keyboard, I didnt even know they were still used! Also does it matter which cable goes in which ps2 connection?

thanks again in advance.

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One is for power, the other is so you can plug in a keyboard as well for setting things up. You don't need the keyboard when you're finished. I'm pretty sure they're labled. I can't check mine as I'm at work.

I'm guessing that the USB to PS2 cable is for the power from USB on your PC to the PS2 on the J-PAC. Remember to disconnect the cabinet power supply to the harness. If your monitor uses a Isolation transformer, you'll need to leave that connected.

You could always go back to Andy at Ultimarc with questions concerning connecting the J-PAC, he's very helpful and usually quite quick at responding.

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