Suggestions for IDE cable management

[BUTCH1]

Pretty cool, but a lot of work. Of course I have no idea what round IDE cables cost anymore since they are no longer called for that often.

 

[purbeast0]

Pretty cool, but a lot of work. Of course I have no idea what round IDE cables cost anymore since they are no longer called for that often.

I just scored the other 5 cables in like 45 minutes while watching TV. It wasn't that bad. But to be honest if I was working now I probably would not be worrying about this, but since I have all the time in the world right now, might as well do something.

 

[BUTCH1]

I just scored the other 5 cables in like 45 minutes while watching TV. It wasn't that bad. But to be honest if I was working now I probably would not be worrying about this, but since I have all the time in the world right now, might as well do something.

Ah, I see, good deal, then plus you saved a bit of crap from the landfill. Who am I kidding, nerds never throw anything out, I still have some 256MB memory sticks in my stash!. 😀

 

[spacejamz]

Ah, I see, good deal, then plus you saved a bit of crap from the landfill. Who am I kidding, nerds never throw anything out, I still have some 256MB memory sticks in my stash!. 😀

I still have these in my stash....LOL

oppss...the bottom pair is DDR3...

 

[purbeast0]

I always toss old crap I am not using. I used to horde it but definitely get rid of stuff. I hate clutter.

 

[BoomerD]

When we moved out of CA in 2012, I dumped all my old PC junk. RAM going back to the Pentium 200 days video cards from the same era...damn, that Voodoo Monster II car really rocked Quake and Quake II...back about 1997-08...I do still have a box with misc. cables and junk...I probably have some cheapo round IDE cable in there...if I knew where that box was...

 

[purbeast0]

When we moved out of CA in 2012, I dumped all my old PC junk. RAM going back to the Pentium 200 days video cards from the same era...damn, that Voodoo Monster II car really rocked Quake and Quake II...back about 1997-08...I do still have a box with misc. cables and junk...I probably have some cheapo round IDE cable in there...if I knew where that box was...

2 of my arcade games have the standard Voodoo 3 card in them hooked right into the mother board. I don't know if I ever had one of those but I know if I did, it's long gone.

 

[BUTCH1]

2 of my arcade games have the standard Voodoo 3 card in them hooked right into the mother board. I don't know if I ever had one of those but I know if I did, it's long gone.

Where are you finding these games anyway?, are arcades now a thing of the past?. I remember when Arcade games offered much better graphics than what you could get in a home system.

 

[purbeast0]

Where are you finding these games anyway?, are arcades now a thing of the past?. I remember when Arcade games offered much better graphics than what you could get in a home system.

There is a market for em. A lot of people who grew up with them in the arcades are now old enough to buy them and have space for them in their homes. There are forums dedicated and then some Facebook groups. I really dislike Facebook and social media generally speaking, but the groups on there really are good for these kinds of things.

I only have 4 cabinets. My Killer Instinct 2 cabinet I bought back in 2002 or so for $300, which is a steal. The board alone now is worth like $600. I also purchased Killer Instinct 1, Mortal Kombat 1, and Mortal Kombat 2 boards back in the day for like $100 - $150. I could sell KI1 for like $400+ and MK1 and MK2 probably $250+ each. I have MAME in there now on a Raspberry Pi 3+.

Then few months ago I purchased 2 Rush 2049 SE's from someone locally. Those are the ones with the Voodoo 3 cards in em. I have them linked together and cleaned em up really good.

And my latest one is Maximum Force cabinet that I got from this company that is like an hour away where they buy/sell all types of coin op machines. They sell them without really testing stuff out. The Maximum Force I got one gun was not working and the other one was cracked. They wanted $420 for it but I offered $300 and they accepted. It was pretty dirty but I had to take it all apart to get it into my basement, and I cleaned the crap out of it too.

I took it home and the gun that wasn't working had a wire disconnected inside of it, and then also one of the pins on the IR sensor had come off the board. So I ended up fixing it and had a working cabinet for $300 and like 30 minutes of time.

But now that cabinet has a switcher in it an I got my 6th game for it today. It can only handle 6 games on the switcher. I'll post a pic of it all setup once I get my PCB feet tomorrow so I can mount the last 2 boards, and then hook it all up. I'll post some pics of the IDE cables I made shortly. I finished them up earlier.

 

[nutxo]

I was just googling and looking on ebay and I saw like 2 3ft ones but they all had 3 connectors on them. I just need 2 - 1 on each end. I guess beggers can't be choosers though.

I also read that you can make your own by separating the wires. That would be kinda risky since it involves razor blades and 1 mess up and it's done.

Those cables all came with the stuff I'm hooking up too so it wasn't extra out of my pocket. I don't know if I'd spend like $70 on rounded IDE cables though. The ones I saw were like $12 or so each.

You can cut one off on the end that has 2

 

[purbeast0]

Here is the completed cables. Came out pretty decent.

 

[BUTCH1]

There is a market for em. A lot of people who grew up with them in the arcades are now old enough to buy them and have space for them in their homes. There are forums dedicated and then some Facebook groups. I really dislike Facebook and social media generally speaking, but the groups on there really are good for these kinds of things.

I only have 4 cabinets. My Killer Instinct 2 cabinet I bought back in 2002 or so for $300, which is a steal. The board alone now is worth like $600. I also purchased Killer Instinct 1, Mortal Kombat 1, and Mortal Kombat 2 boards back in the day for like $100 - $150. I could sell KI1 for like $400+ and MK1 and MK2 probably $250+ each. I have MAME in there now on a Raspberry Pi 3+.

Then few months ago I purchased 2 Rush 2049 SE's from someone locally. Those are the ones with the Voodoo 3 cards in em. I have them linked together and cleaned em up really good.

And my latest one is Maximum Force cabinet that I got from this company that is like an hour away where they buy/sell all types of coin op machines. They sell them without really testing stuff out. The Maximum Force I got one gun was not working and the other one was cracked. They wanted $420 for it but I offered $300 and they accepted. It was pretty dirty but I had to take it all apart to get it into my basement, and I cleaned the crap out of it too.

I took it home and the gun that wasn't working had a wire disconnected inside of it, and then also one of the pins on the IR sensor had come off the board. So I ended up fixing it and had a working cabinet for $300 and like 30 minutes of time.

But now that cabinet has a switcher in it an I got my 6th game for it today. It can only handle 6 games on the switcher. I'll post a pic of it all setup once I get my PCB feet tomorrow so I can mount the last 2 boards, and then hook it all up. I'll post some pics of the IDE cables I made shortly. I finished them up earlier.

Oh, I see, so you use one cabinet for multiple boards, right?, surprising no one ever made some kind of x86 emulator along the way.

 

[purbeast0]

Oh, I see, so you use one cabinet for multiple boards, right?, surprising no one ever made some kind of x86 emulator along the way.

Only one of the 4 - The Maximum Force one. The guy who makes the switcher said I'm the only one to his knowledge who has done a multi light gun cabinet with that switcher, but he laid out the wiring on paper on how it should work before I wired it all up, and it worked as he said it would. It's really not that complicated to wire up but I had to make a bunch of harnesses.

KI2 just has a pi in there and Rush 2049 SE cabinets just have those in there.

Here's a pic of my little setup a few days after I got my Maximum Force cabinet setup down there and had a few buddies over. This is pre-switcher.

 

[BUTCH1]

Pretty cool!, driving games in particular always seemed to look/work better in the arcades than at home, even when home graphics caught up. Something about sitting inside the console with real gas, brakes and steering wheel that made it a much more complete experience.

 

[purbeast0]

Here is a before/after shot of the final product. Before one doesn't have the 6th game hooked and the 5th one isn't installed inside the cabinet in the pic, up but you get the idea

Before:

After:

 

[BUTCH1]

Oh yea, much, much neater and a huge help if you need to disconnect stuff to troubleshoot.