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General Chat => Technical Area => Topic started by: mchay on March 18, 2011, 11:40:12 AM

Title: Making a JAMMA adapter for my Sega Tapper board
Post by: mchay on March 18, 2011, 11:40:12 AM
I recently found a Sega Tapper board, which possibly is one of the relatively rare Suntory boards.

To see if this boards is running and what it in fact is running, I will have to make me a JAMMA adapter for det Sega board.

The very scarce information about the pinout is summed down to one single source:

http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spies.cgi?action=url&type=pinout&page=SuntoryTapper.txt

Just to make sure, I wanted to hear if any of you have any experience with Sega Tapper boards og Sega boards in general - so I don't f**k something up.

Highres picture of the board in question:

http://www.humblekro.dk/sega_tapper_pcb.jpg

There isn't a lot of info on the board, when searching the www - so I hope to get it running so I can conclude if it indeed is the Suntory Tapper or what it is.
Title: Re: Making a JAMMA adapter for my Sega Tapper board
Post by: mchay on March 18, 2011, 11:55:41 AM
Looks a whole lot like the pictures I can find around on the internet, so I'm very excitet to get it running.

http://maws.mameworld.info/img/xt/pcb/sutapper.png

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-arcade-pcb-tapper-100-working-very

Funny thing is that KLOV states that Sega denies ever having produced this board. Very interresting indeed.
Title: Re: Making a JAMMA adapter for my Sega Tapper board
Post by: level42 on March 18, 2011, 12:49:57 PM
Well Mikes's site is usually a reliable source. You can always check for the +5 and GND pins by measuring cotinuity between the mentioned edge pin numbers and a IC that you know where +5V and GND should be...
Title: Re: Making a JAMMA adapter for my Sega Tapper board
Post by: mchay on March 18, 2011, 01:08:10 PM
Well Mikes's site is usually a reliable source. You can always check for the +5 and GND pins by measuring cotinuity between the mentioned edge pin numbers and a IC that you know where +5V and GND should be...

Good idea. I will look into that when I get home and hopefully get it running tonight and see what awaits me.