How to mod your Arcade1up into a Neo Geo Multicart system - Part 2

[@ahox0060]

I purchased a 2 slot MVS board off ebay and locally sourced a 25" arcade monitor, this video is a godsend, thank you!

[@RetroRalph]

Glad I could help and thanks for watching man! I need to do more of these, I had planned to do a 101 / 201 and 301 series for this but I never got around to it. Thanks again for watching and glad It helped you out.

[@jca5422]

I know this video has been posted awhile but I wanted to thank you for the walk through . I did this mod to a 1up and followed your instructions and it came out amazing!

[@RetroRalph]

Dude!!! That’s awesome!! ✊🏻 Way to go!!!

[@OregonPacifist]

Your Arcade 1up videos are the best, man. I'd love a Neo Geo cabinet to play King of the Monsters lol

[@RetroRalph]

I think you have a new project on your hands ;-) Go make it happen man.... you got this! Thanks for watching!

[@philipnapier3382]

Really glad you did this two part video because I'm seriously thinking about trying this. I'm a huge neo geo fan and this would be perfect for me. Gonna use your video as a guide when I start. Thanks retro Ralph!!!

[@RetroRalph]

Thanks for watching Philip! I'm a huge Neo Geo fan so I totally understand, good luck and let me know if you need any help!

[@philipnapier3382]

@@RetroRalph thanks I really appreciate it. Ordered the motherboard and power supply tonight. Gotta replenish some funds before I order the rest. I'm gonna try and put this in a bartop instead of the arcade 1up cab. Do u have any suggestions on were I should get my pre cut cab ?

[@CHINASAUR]

Very awesome project(: I am actually learning a lot about Jamma from your videos

[@RetroRalph]

Thanks man! I'm glad the videos are helpful. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Excellent work my friend! I've learned a lot from watching you! :D

[@RetroRalph]

Greg's Game Room Thanks Greg... I appreciate that bud!

[@BSAElectronics702]

great little walk through. Something worth mentioning, if a builder wants to upgrade the sound you don't necessarily have to go to an amp immediately, using a bigger better speaker can do the trick, some older cabinets like the Star Trek upright use a single 6x9 and had fantastic bass. Good brands are Alpine, JBL, Pioneer, Kenwood, Infinity, Harmon Kardon. Their sold as car audio speaker and you get two, enough to mod to cabinets! some even include spk. wire.

[@RetroRalph]

civicturbo2009 Great point man! Thanks for the tip! I appreciate you watching and supporting the channel!

[@TheRealRustyGrill]

Wow!!! Phenomenal info!! Finally someone with great explanation!

[@CollaborationNation]

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[@consolecoast7897]

This is amazing dude. I love what your doing.

[@RetroRalph]

Dale Thanks Dale, I appreciate that! Thanks for supporting the channel!

[@jbartmontage6737]

Hey Ralph. The power supply you use in the video is a 5V/16A. Can i use a 5V/10A arcade power supply aswell? Thanks again

[@hopejackson1741]

This is good I want to do this for my old Neo Geo Cabinet.

[@sqwikken7776]

Thanks for all the content, I just found your channel! I've always been a Neo Geo arcade fan, and even got a Neo Geo Pocket Color from Toys "R" Us in the 90s. I had no idea about all of the MVS systems, mods, or cart availability. THANK YOU! Also... have you even done a video or post about making that control deck? I would really appreciate some pointers. I really like the Neo Geo layout, and am thinking about modding my Arcade1Up cabinet in this way. That marquee is amazing, as well!

[@dondraper3898]

Awesome work!

[@barryjohnson5288]

What if I want to hook up 2 speakers? The JAMMA only has a plus, and a negative wire.

[@RetroRalph]

Not all MVS boards are stereo, I believe my one slot is mono. You could safely wire 2- 8 ohm speakers in parallel if you wanted to use 2 speakers in mono.

[@barryjohnson5288]

@@RetroRalph what about splicing them? Adding and extra +, and ground wire??

[@barryjohnson5288]

@@RetroRalph I'm also having trouble getting video on my vga monitor, I'm using a original Mortal kombat 2 pcb, I set the geometry on my vga adapter to 28, and still nothing.

[@sixcooppop5262]

Great Video, good way to show how to connect a jamma harness. Hey where do you find the universal bracket that is like the one on your Arcade1UP neo geo?

[@RetroRalph]

FourCo OpPop Hey man... thanks for watching! I’m not sure I know what you’re asking. Shoot me an email... [e-mail] thanks again for continuing to support that channel man!

[@kevinmartinez3250]

Ive tried everything on the video but I keep getting a no signal message on my crt monitor. Any advice?

[@RetroRalph]

This was instructions to set it up on an LCD. If you're using a CRT you don't need to use the video converter board. You would connect the R,B,G and Sync directly to the CRT. Does that make sense? I hope this helps.

[@kevinmartinez3250]

@@RetroRalph Its connected directly to the jamma harness. So its running on the orginal hardware of the arcade machine. I get sound just a no signal message on the screen.

[@shimian5622]

Where do you find that black textured plastic you used as a bezel to hide the monitor frame? I assume it comes in a sheet and you just cut out the center?

[@RetroRalph]

You should be able to find it from this link: www.hollandcomputers.com/store/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=2721

[@RetroRalph]

I didn't need to cut the middle as it's made for the 19" monitor they sell. However, I did have to cut the sides to make it fit into the 1up. I used the old Bezel as a template to help me cut it to size.

[@shimian5622]

Retro Ralph got it! Thanks! I’m using a 20.1 Dell so trying to figure out what will require the fewest cuts to make a bezel. That’s a good starting place though.

[@princevinny0073]

hey ralph i bought the same video board you have the V56 Universal LCD TV Controller Driver Board connect it to the arcade 1up and pluged in my pc am getting a kind of mirroring going on where the top of the screen is showing at the botom is that something that happend to u aswell or is the board i bought broken ??? if its how it is how do i fix it to fit the whole screen

[@RetroRalph]

princevinny18 Hey man, I would love to help. Can you email me a picture of what’s happening as well as a picture of the controller board. I have noticed that at times these boards ship with different versions and sometimes they’re not consistent. Also send me info on what model MVS board you purchased. Thanks man! [e-mail]

[@princevinny0073]

yeah man if any help would be greafull ill send you the pics give me a sec

[@princevinny0073]

i sent it let me know if u got it

[@SVNS1XTWO]

Anyway to wire the coin buttons to actual coin mechanisms? Not to have to put in coins, but just push them in and have that work as the coin button?

[@eldoradodunn3]

I've seen those video converter I wonder if they would put out a good picture . from what I saw it look awesome.thanks for the video

[@oldskooljunkie1797]

Hi there I have 6 button Ultracade arcade turning it to 3a Pandora 6 just order a power supply. my ? Is do u think I could use the coin push button from the coin door for credits Instead of putting two extra buttons

[@RetroRalph]

I don't see why not. I haven't done that before but I'm sure others have. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel.

[@nicolasjmills]

Thanks for the video, I plan on doing a similar build and this helps alot. I was looking for MVS boards and I noticed alot are shipping from china, are these actual SNK boards or are the counterfeit boards? Just curious I want to make sure I get the real deal.

[@ironhawk02]

There was no issue with the Neo Geo’s 59 frames per second going into the video converter and coming out as 60 frames per second?

[@chrisbentley3468]

Hey. My harness came with a bunch of grounds and voltage wires. I have the fattest of each hooked into the power supply. Am I supposed to have more wires hooked into the power supply? My power supply is hook up exactly like yours

[@skusuma78]

Retro Ralph, thank you so much for sharing this educational video! I got motivated and did a similar thing to mod my sf2 arcade1up to connect with jamma arcade motherboard but I had issue with the picture bouncing vertically. Is it possible due to defective rgba to HDMI converter or the game motherboard? I'm connecting jamma harness with jamma game motherboard.

[@barryjohnson5288]

I'm going to try, and make a stand alone MK2 cabinet, probably going to need help. Once i learn how to build it I'm going to build 1,3, and 4 stand alone cabinets.

[@franciscodiaz9839]

Where is the first part??? Thank you

[@jasonwatson532]

Question - If I were using a RPi instead of the Neo Geo, would the video connection go like this: HDMI out of RPi to blue control board and then a VGA cord out to the stock VGA connector on the back of the monitor? I'm confused about the control boards I'm seeing on the back of the monitor. Are those the stock ones the come on the monitor with the back cover removed?

[@DoubleD96203]

I have a question: Is there any switch needed to be wired to turn the system on? Or it only need the power supply to be plugged in?

[@RamonMSilva-fs8qe]

Excellent tutorial !!! All well explained !!! I recently bought a Neo Geo MVS card with The King of Fighters 97 and am looking for a more viable design to make a bartop or even a consolized one. Kit Jamma or Supergun, the least expensive possible. I'm from Brazil and here the components are not cheap. I'm subscribed in your channel. Thank you very much. 😀

[@GenZod80]

Looking to do similar with my arcade PCB for SEGA’s Spider-Man the video game.

[@oldboat7506]

Let me rephrase, is it possible to use the RGB to VGA converter and and connect vga to the appropriate lcd driver for the A1up stock monitor?

[@RetroRalph]

Big Blanski You will need a way to connect VGA to the stock 1up... this controller will allow you to do this: HDMI+VGA+DVI+Audio Input LCD... www.amazon.com/dp/B06X9NJ2NR?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

[@Midlifereader]

Hey man love the video has got me makeing my own arcade! Woild you be able to unplug the jamma from the MVC and plug in the 59 n 1 Shmup board from your other video and have it just work?

[@oldboat7506]

One more question lol: does that jamma harness come stock with the RGB connector or did you do that yourself?

[@RetroRalph]

You will need to buy a converter to take the signal off the JAMMA harness and convert it to VGA or HDMI. Unless you plan on using a CRT ;-)

[@oldboat7506]

@@RetroRalph that's what I plan on doing. I just saw the connector you used to plug it into the blue arcade board. I was just wondering if pyb jammas come stock with the little white RGB connector.

[@oldboat7506]

Looks like a molex connector

[@RetroRalph]

@@oldboat7506 You're right... it's a Molex connector :-)

[@oldboat7506]

@@RetroRalph cool. Thanks Ralph

[@ywcfuture3621]

You need to add the Neo Geo memory card slots.

[@RetroRalph]

Oh damn... that's a great idea!! Thanks for pointing that out.

[@oldboat7506]

Ralph can I use the Arcade1up stock screen with the mvs F1?

[@RetroRalph]

Big Blanski You can if you use a different video controller board. HDMI+VGA+DVI+Audio Input LCD... www.amazon.com/dp/B06X9NJ2NR?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

[@mexicanotaku1]

@@RetroRalph i do not see a direct connection for RGB on that board. Will i need two separate boards of i attempt to use the stock A1up lcd screen or will this converter board work just fine with the stock display and the jamma? Im painfully ignorant on the subject unfortunately

[@aceboogie1775]

for those who want to use this as commercial reasons make sure u use the original hardware and build your own cabinet for it that way your legit

[@barryjohnson5288]

I'm trying to mod my mortal kombat machine with a real pcb borad, and I'm having a ton of trouble.

[@RetroRalph]

What kind of problem are you having? Maybe I can help...

[@barryjohnson5288]

@@RetroRalph I'm trying to put a original Mortal Kombat 2 pcb in my 1up arcade, and I think i got the wrong SANWA sticks, and the wrong JAMMA cables.

[@barryjohnson5288]

@@RetroRalph nowhere on my SANWA sticks does it have a place to hook them up to my JAMMA, and my JAMMA doesn't have -5 voltage.

[@barryjohnson5288]

@@RetroRalph just found out MK2 uses -5 voltage. My JAMMA cable doesn't have it, and I can't find one that does. Very frustrating!

[@stevenmassey41]

Nice job. :)

[@Jay84476]

all you need is that neo-geo flashcart

[@aceboogie1775]

your a top man!!!!

[@cesarvall6232]

Muy buen proyecto.

[@limitededition7200]

Good luck with insurance if you’re house burns down when you cutting power cables when you’re not an electrician. I am not hating, but I checked with my insurance about this subject and they will not cover you.

[@jdfan0121]

HE's talking about cutting an extension cord or similar - not your house wiring ! - the House wiring already has circuit breakers etc. that will protect from anything happening and it's 3 wires that are being connected to the correct places on the Arcade Powersupply - so there is no way anything bad is going to happen ( worse case if you wire it incorrectly you'd possibly trip a beaker switch on the wall outlet you plug into or the circuit breaker box - it's never going to burn a house down !

[@limitededition7200]

JDFan01 like I said good luck getting a payout, and like the insurance company said if you’re playing with live wires and a certified electrician hasn’t done the job basically you’re screwed, of course there every chance nothing will happen, but on that off chance something does, that live wire will burn you’re house down 100% and you’re a fool if you think it wouldn’t. Put it this way I went to buy a display cabinet and the people put there own led stripe lightening that hooks up to the main house power, insurance said “if there not certified electrician you’re not covered” that’s for shitting led strip lighting.

[@RetroRalph]

Hmmmm... I Think maybe you misunderstood what I was saying. However.... maybe I should be more specific since it could be confusing I suppose. I will make sure to add the Power cord in the video description. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@limitededition7200]

Retro Ralph you’re not an accredited electrician. You plugged in a live wire to power that you did the work on (you crimped on the u plugs) if it shorts out or whatever and cause a fire, then there’s no cover. If that live wire somehow comes out of that power supply would it still have power running though it? If yes, and it burns you’re house down, then you will not be covered by the insurance at all because you did the work, if it’s a no, and no power is running through it then I totally missed something and it’s safe to use this method. If I have totally misunderstood, then I am totally apologizing in advance, but if I haven’t, then it’s an awfully big risk to put you’re house on the line.

[@jdfan0121]

@@limitededition7200 - What you are not understanding is how electrical systems these days are protected from such things happening - IF as you say somehow the power wire were to become lose or come in contact with anything that shorted it out - the GFI or GFCI circuit (Grounf Fault Circuit ( interruptor) would pop within milliseconds shutting off the wall outlet circuit or if you are on old enough wiring to not have GFI circuits the Circuit breaker box would do the same - preventing any fire from occurring (esp. since the plug is using the 3 prong connection which properly earth grounds the wiring so any short that may occur will be disappated properly - So the likely hood of that occurring is pretty much zero ! THe arcade power supplies he is using are designed to be wired in this manner and do not require an electrician come to your home to wire it !