Spinners on Arkanoid Returns Taito F3?

[KmanSweden]

How the hell?
I'm guessing it's S1.... Found GND and +5v then tried all combos of the rest of the pins to my spinners two signal pins to no avail..

Jumper set to Sensor.
Setting in game set to spinner.

A photo and/or pinout drawing would be FANTASTIC!

[FrancoB]

Are they not just wired to the JAMMA edge?

I'll go see what I can find.

[KmanSweden]

You're an ... I haven't tried the jama edge.. How should the settings be then Jumper/in game settings?

[FrancoB]

I actually have Arkanoid Returns myself I've never actually played it though

It looks like you just need to wire X1 and X2 to left and right on the JAMMA edge. Depending on the cab you could wire it up in a few ways.

For 5v and GND you could take it from the JAMMA edge via a passthough or something or you could meter the headers on the board to see if they provide 5v and GND.

[KmanSweden]

I made this for Arkanoid and Arkanoid ROD earlier..

Didn't even try it since i guessed it had to be connected to one of the extra connectors..

[FrancoB]

Ah, C'est Excellent! Just the job

Let me know if it works, I need to set mine up at some point.

[KmanSweden]

For f**k sake.. It works perfectly.

I can't believe I din't try it out first. Well the good news is that the adapter works on all 3 of my Arkanoids.
Thanks Franco.

[FrancoB]

Awesome man. The simplest solutions are often the best

Glad you got it sorted

[wonderbanana]

[KmanSweden]

[codecrank]

what I do with my blast is just use the 5v on the 12pin p1 /p2 amp. the rest is normally jamma input. 100% panel contained works for arkanoid 2 & Arknanoid returns. The first arkanoid is not jamma so you'll need a taito classic -> jamma adapter.



what cab are you putting this in ?

[KmanSweden]

Yeah I have a kind of Jamma adapter on my Arkanoid PCB.
I'm using this with my Astro Citys

[cools]

If I'm reading this right, all I need to do is power the spinner (5V) and hook it up to the same pins as L+R are normally connected on the joystick?

I've never actually tried my Arkanoid PCB due to lack of JAMMA adapter, but the above should work fine with MAME unless I'm being really daft.?

[KmanSweden]

Yeah.. right, left, +5V and GND.

[cools]

Any idea what the proper connectors are for the spinners?

[codecrank]

Any idea what the proper connectors are for the spinners?

with the older taito spinners. I used 04-Pin Molex KK 5239 (3.96mm with ramp) spinners. This also fits suzo-happ redboard optical pcbs, and it looks like the LS-29 uses the same pich.

housing part# 0009524044
pin part # 0008550104

I just updated http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/Molex_KK"

[skate323k137]

Spinners are the death of me right now.

I got a spinner and a copy of arkanoid returns, and I can't get it going with a spinner. Joystick works, but with jumper and test menu set to sensor I can't get anything to work.

I have some sega trackballs, so I tried using them to rule things out since they also run on 5v.

long story short, I made looms to interchange the optics of the devices. My spinner won't work as an axis of the trackball, and the trackball won't register any movement at all if I hook one of it's sensors up to the F3. I know the trackballs themselves are good (they work fine in my naomi cab), but the encoder wheels are cut differently. Even with different wheel cuts I'd hope to see SOME movement of the values in test mode on the F3. I can't get anything.

Is there any way to monitor for output pulses from a spinner itself? Any other ideas? At this point it seems like my F3 motherboard just won't accept spinner input, with the possibility of my spinner itself also being bad. For what it's worth it's an ASIA board with a JAPAN cart, but the pin blocks have been removed, and I've never had any problems with other games on this mobo.

Edit: I checked the outputs using info from this page http://www.zumbrovalley.net/readpost.php?artid=1 and it seems my outputs on pin 1 / pin 4 are stuck high regardless of whether or not I block the sensor. I would think a broken sensor would be stuck low

[skate323k137]

I took out the spinner optic PCB and the schematic just doesn't seem quite right. Instead of 4x 150ohm resistors, it has 2 150's and two 4.5kohm. Regardless the output is stuck high and the input to the diode is dead. Everything seems to check out trace/resistor wise (everything is intact) so without new optics my PCB is probably dead.

However, I think I can get out of this easily Happ's 170 dollar arkanoid spinner (no joke) uses their cheap optic board from their trackballs. I ordered a replacement optic bd for 20 bucks, we'll see how it goes

(175 dollar trackwheel: na.suzohapp.com/products/accessories/95-0931-00 )

Optic board I'm going to try: na.suzohapp.com/products/trackballs/A052-1011-00?SS=BOM

[skate323k137]

If anyone is following this thread, I can confirm the happ "red board" for their trackballs works great with a spinner on the F3. I'm all up and running