evolvingconsole

Author: cdeschenes

Microsoft Xbox 360

JTAG/RGH information

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Just gathering some information for the 2 Xbox’s I want to RGH. My newer slim model will be setup with a duel NAND so I can still boot it to a retail NAND to play on live. My other older fat Xbox will be for my arcade cabinet. I am going to strip it down to just the metal basket so I can mount it to the back board to slide it into the arcade cabinet.

Xbox 360 Slim

  • MFR Date: 2010-09-20
  • Power: 10.83A
  • Current Dashboard: 2.0.15574.0

I went ahead and ordered a few items so I can get started on these boxes.

  • Xecuter Nand-X RGH Edition
  • Xecuter DemoN
  • A couple Xecuter CoolRunner – New Rev C Version
  • X8 X-Tool (X-8) XBox 360 SLIM opening tool – I hate breaking the tabs on the cases.

Now the waiting game.

JAMMA, Sega Astro City

Xbox 360 to JAMA

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I am in the process of making a dedicated Xbox 360 that will reside in my Astro Cab. This Xbox 360 will be JTAGed and will have a 1TB HDD internal for game storage. I am still trying to figure out what front end I will use and would like to see if I can get a vertical theme since all games I will be playing will be tate.

Hardware Needed:

  • Multi-Console Cthulhu (DONE)
  • Small Stereo Audio Amp
  • VGA to JAMMA Board (DONE)

More to come.

 

 

Sega Astro City

Where have I been?

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I have not been working on any gaming related projects for almost a year other than actually playing games. I have tried to juggle my gaming projects and my music electronic projects and its just did not work out. So what got me here today? I am in need of some shmups playing real bad.. I miss it so much and really wanted to get my Xbox 360 hooked up to my Astro Cab to play some tate shmups. I will post my notes as I build this and hope it will help me keep my thoughts together.

JAMMA

Some terms to search for on Yahoo Auctions Japan

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Publishers:

アトラス Atlas
彩京 Psikyo
エス・エヌ・ケイ SNK
セガ Sega
トレジャー Treasure
カプコン Capcom
ニンテンドー or 任天堂 Nintendo
ライジング Raizing

Games:

怒首領蜂 Dodonpachi
怒首領蜂 大往生 Dodonpachi
エスプガルーダ ESP Galuda
エスプガルーダII ESP Galuda II
エスプレイド ESP Ra.De
斑鳩 Ikaruga
鋳薔薇 Ibara
虫姫さま Mushihime Sama

雷電 Raiden
雷電Ⅲ Raiden III
雷電ディ-・エックス Raiden DX
ライデンファイターズ Raiden Fighters (note: phonetic)
雷電プロジェクト Raiden Project
雷電伝説 Raiden Trad (Densetsu?)

Sega Astro City

Amp & Speakers

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I got a temporary amp to test the stock 3″ speakers that came with the Sega Astro City and I was not impressed at all. In fact, it sounded terrible. So I decided to find some inexpensive replacements and turned to Parts-Express for that. Here are a few different models I am looking at.

The amp I got to drive these speakers is a Sega Naomi Amp.
I know the replacements need to be at the least 3″ and 4 Ohm. The stock speakers are 15 Watt RMS speakers.

Tang Band W3-881SI 3″ Speaker

Peerless 830986 3″ Full Range Woofer

 

JAMMA, Sega Astro City

Sega Naomi Audio Amp Install

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Copped this from the Neo-Geo forums.

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first step, the amp

2, connect the transformer as shown in the pic.

3, connect this white, black, and green cables to the cable that comes out of the transformer.

4, this are the ends of the white, black, and green cables. Those ends need to be connected to your arcade PSU.

Today I needed to test the AMP, so I had to connect the white and the black cables to a regular AC plug to power the amp.

5, connect the Audio Left (white) and right (red) cables to the amp

6, and then to the PCB board

7, then connect the volume pot molex to the amp. (left hand side next to the audio plugs). volume pot not pictured, I forgot.

8, connect the audio left and right molex to the amp. (right hand side white and red molex)

9. there are 4 end cables from the 2 audio molex, 2 from the white molex (left audio) and 2 from the red molex (right audio) they need to be connected to your cab Stereo plug, in my case was the “F” molex in my Egret II. this one
picture of the cables and the molex:

this is a diagram of the Egret II connector (got the pic from some of Kernow post, thanks!)

and the ends of the red and white audio molex are as follow: WHITE (left audio) Grey is L+ and Orange is L-, and RED (right audio) Grey is R+ and Orange is R-

10, next thing you need to do is go to your ARcade pcb setting and set it to stereo, and make sure you put YOUR CAB in stero, (there should be a switch, at least mine has one switch for Mono and Stereo)

I think thats about it. Power on your cab, if the amp is connected to your cab PSU, it should turn on automatically and be ready to work. Hope it helps.

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I just wanted to archive this incase is ever removed.