I think you want a i-pac not j-pac

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: I believe you want the I-Pac for your application, not J-pac as I believe they are used on jamma cabinets (former Jamma arcade cabinets for PC to arcade controls) I believe this is right, otherwise I have a bunch of the wrong boards!! : : Okay guys, you all get this 1000 times a day, I'm sure, so feel free to slap me upside the head instead of answering. I've been tinkering with building a Mame cabinet for a while now and my head is swimming so badly I need to get grounded by asking some serious questions. The setup I was going to use originally has been poo-pooed by more than one individual so I went back to the drawing board. So, on with the questions: : : Cabinet : : I was going to design and cut my own cabinet. I'm going to laminate it (black probably) and use commercial side art and the Mame marquee that I found elsewhere on the net). No problem there as I'm basing it off of an arcade cabinet in dimensions (which one I have yet to figure out). I would think this is pretty straightforward, so I don't think I need input on the design of the cabinet. HOWEVER, if anyone has anything they think I may not know or need to know, please let me know now so I don't build it and find that, oh, I needed to add this or add that. I would like to add a coin door on the front, just for that "authentic" feel to it. : : Monitor : : I've been going back and forth between using the fixes that I've seen elsewhere where a standard computer monitor is used and a bezel is placed in front to give it the "feel" of an arcade machine. I recently found a 25" Wells Gardner Monitor that seems like it might be just the thing I'm looking for (and the price isn't really any more than a standard computer monitor for the same size...actually far less. : : Controls : : I'm planning on using standard arcade controls (happ, etc) wired into a JPac interface from Ultimarc (I think I understand this properly...ie wiring the controls into the Jpac interface to plug directly into the computer? : : Now my questions are these : : 1. Am I going about this right? ie, do I have all the "parts" that I'll need, like the cabinet, the harness, the controls, the monitor (the computer of course). Am I missing something on the list? : : 2. Will I need a seperate power supply for the monitor (its a replacement monitor so it DOES NOT come with a power supply. Is the power supply I need a part of a Jamma harness or is it seperate? : : 3. Will I need a Jamma harness or is this not really needed as the JPac interface takes the place of the harness? : : Like I said, maybe I'm not even approaching this properly and I'm not terming things as I should and maybe I'm missing key elements of a cabinet. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my thought on making an arcade cabinet was comprised of four key parts, 1. The controls/Joysticks, 2.The CPU, 3. The Monitor and 4. The cabinet. : : Any thoughts, helps, criticisms or suggestions is very much appreciated. If you could post here as well as forward it to my email at daburton@fuse.net it would really be greatly appreciated by myself. Who knows, if things go well, maybe I can add a site with photos of my project....if I ever get it finished that is. Thanks. : : Doug

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