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MGCD
I just picked up one of these over the weekend. Do any of you guys have one and have successfully used it in a Sega Astro? Did you make adjustments to an extension harness or use an adapter. Looking for some suggestions.
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- Rossyra
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Re: MGCD
Dave_K. has written about it on his blog, perhaps this will be useful?
http://arcadefever.blogspot.co.uk/2010/ ... art-1.html
Maybe you could send a polite PM if you are really stuck?
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http://arcadefever.blogspot.co.uk/2010/ ... art-1.html
Maybe you could send a polite PM if you are really stuck?
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Re: MGCD
I have one of these, used it in a NAC. What are you looking for exactly, how the controls are hooked up? FrancoB helped me out with this thing by making a jamma passthrough I believe. If you want I can check for you?
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Re: MGCD
That’s would be awesome thank you! I was told to buy a JNX Atlas adapter and that it worked well but he could remember how everything was hooked up.Sp33dFr34k wrote:I have one of these, used it in a NAC. What are you looking for exactly, how the controls are hooked up? FrancoB helped me out with this thing by making a jamma passthrough I believe. If you want I can check for you?
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Re: MGCD
I actually found a great thread on KLOV regarding the pinout of the MGCD.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showth ... p?t=282555
Bottom line, all 7 buttons for P1 and P2 are wired to the edge connector so you'd need to hook up these buttons through for example your kick harness connector.
Also, it needs -5v present.
This is basically all I've done to mine, just checked. As I have buttons 4 and 5 wired to my edge connector inside the cab and only have 6 buttons per player on my panel, I have only hooked up both buttons 6 from the jamma passthrough to my kick connector.
Hope I am making sense?
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/showth ... p?t=282555
Bottom line, all 7 buttons for P1 and P2 are wired to the edge connector so you'd need to hook up these buttons through for example your kick harness connector.
Also, it needs -5v present.
This is basically all I've done to mine, just checked. As I have buttons 4 and 5 wired to my edge connector inside the cab and only have 6 buttons per player on my panel, I have only hooked up both buttons 6 from the jamma passthrough to my kick connector.
Hope I am making sense?
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Re: MGCD
The problem is is that my control panel is the one with 3 buttons and not 6. Would it just be wise to get one with 6 buttons. I have yet to hook up -5v but i will have some time to do it this weekend. Do i NEED to have all of those buttons hooked up?
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Re: MGCD
Thank you. I went ahead and sent him a message.Rossyra wrote:Dave_K. has written about it on his blog, perhaps this will be useful?
http://arcadefever.blogspot.co.uk/2010/ ... art-1.html
Maybe you could send a polite PM if you are really stuck?
https://forum.arcadeotaku.com/memberlis ... file&u=133
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Re: MGCD
Well, depends on the games you'd like to play. The majority will be fine with 3 buttons per player, but if you want to play some of the fighters on the DC, you'll want 6 buttons per player. If you don't, then you're fine for inputs at least. Bare in mind that there are more games which require 4 buttons for A/B/X/Y though.Blue0524 wrote:The problem is is that my control panel is the one with 3 buttons and not 6. Would it just be wise to get one with 6 buttons. I have yet to hook up -5v but i will have some time to do it this weekend. Do i NEED to have all of those buttons hooked up?
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Re: MGCD
No, the -5v does not affect controls. If you have a standard NAC PSU (the low one), it should supply -5v, do you know the model of the PSU you're using? Do you have the C23/C24 connector ports on the MGCD hooked up to the normal P1/P2 ports on the Dreamcast? A pic of your setup would help.
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Re: MGCD
Hello.Sp33dFr34k wrote:No, the -5v does not affect controls. If you have a standard NAC PSU (the low one), it should supply -5v, do you know the model of the PSU you're using? Do you have the C23/C24 connector ports on the MGCD hooked up to the normal P1/P2 ports on the Dreamcast? A pic of your setup would help.
I have a 400-5198 PSU.
Everything is working (audio/video) minus the controls...currently setup for timed play.
I think I have the dip settings correct (see below and attached image3)...
1st Bank of dip switches
1-8 (all on)
2nd Bank of dip switches
1-2 (off), 3 (on), 4 (off), 5-12 (on)
I purchased a jamma extender to modify so I can keep the harness in my Astro City intact.
I removed pins A27 & A28 and tied them to A1 (GND) and B27 & B28 and tied them B1 (GND)...see attached images 1 & 2.
I can't get the controls to work. Like I mentioned before everything is working fine and I can credit up and see the onscreen display/countdown timer.
Any help is greatly appreciated (as I'm really new to this) or if anyone can make an extender harness that will work with this, please let me know.
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