JAMMA Splitter?

[drunkninja24]

Been messing around with capturing/streaming video to my PC as of late, and was looking around for a way that I could play some of my arcade games on my cabinet still, but then capture and record or stream them if I wanted to. I found this http://www.arcadeshock.com/items/pro-ha ... detail.htm but that's waaaayy too expensive for me. But then I remembered my old Vogatek supergun with S-VIdeo and Composite output I had lying around. I was curious if there was perhaps a way (or something I could outright buy somewhere) to just split off my video signal from my cabinet's JAMMA harness into the supergun and get my video output there while still playing the game itself on my cabinet.

[Ed Oscuro]

Yore Supergun doesn't do RGB output? Well, S-Video won't be completely terrible, and will be a pretty easy format to capture given the abundance of S-video capable capture cards. For the direct JAMMA video, you will still need to put the cabling in a usable format (at least) to capture it though, and I think that a supergun's video circuitry could be adjusting the voltages as well. This is properly the job of a supergun. So you get what you pay for with the supergun, I guess.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

On my Matt Ross made Supergun, it can output in both RGB & S-Video/ RCA composite video at the same time. So it'd be possible to play any Jamma PCB on two seperate monitors (one for playing & the other for recording purposes).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[shinjig]

What you linked to was the easiest way that I'm aware of do to what your asking.

Depending on your arcade monitor, it may have a db15 input like that of a regular computer monitor. If it does, you could get a vga splitter cable and plug the new vga end into a micromsoft SC-500n1 capture card directly.

If not then you're gonna have to do some soldering.

One thing though, when I ordered the item that you linked to it didn't come with the scart jack so I had to wire up my own. So just keep that in mind.

[Artemio]

You can spli the video signal from the jamma connector and feed that to your supergun, either directly to the encoder or to the JAMMA edge.

It is what the above methods do, and what a Jamma vs or 4 player cable does. I've been using it for several years now to connect two cabinets and I've had no issues.

In case you use the jamma edge and have to power the second canbinet or supergun, a power resistor in the 5V line might be needed. It does no harm to place it, although it gets hot of course. This is just in case your power supply needs the load, I undertand newer ones do not need it.

[drunkninja24]

Okay, well I have a JAMMA fingerboard lying around I just came across, so I think I could use that wired into the RGBS signal off of my cabinet's JAMMA connector. No need for power or control wiring since all I'm interested in is the video signal.

[drunkninja24]

Also, found this product that may streamline things a bit:

http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/el ... apter.html

So would this > Jamma fingerboard > Supergun be enough to get me a picture on both my cabinet and the video output on my supergun?

[shinjig]

you should be able to just connect that to any type of an rgb to ntsc converter like Jrok or neobitz. No need for a full blown supergun with what your asking.