I bought a Project Diva Arcade Future Tone Cabinet!

Thank you so much!

 

Can you measure the touch slider pcb ?
Length of the pcb, height and width of one touch segment and gap between them.
Scan of the art would also be nice.
I hope i am not asking for too much.

 

Just realized that despite being measured so many times by different people, there's not a single drawing that I can fully trust. The one by colonelmasako is pretty off IIRC and LKP's dimension is mostly obtained by eyeballing and on-screen rulerjob :(

Still if you don't mind rulerjobs and eyeballing... This is LKP's dimension (half length due to the tiled design). Electrode size is 14x38mm.

 

Nice. I guess my rulerjob was better than I remembered lol.

 

As I already have an original control panel and a dedicated PC (which specwise is a slight upgrade from the Nu) I've been debating buying an old Nu just to get hold of the Sega JVS, PCI and AMEX boards so that I can ditch the hack job RS232 > USB and USB controller board I currently use. The problem though is with the wiring from the AMEX, I've seen there is a small undocumented Sega PCB that plugs into the AMEX which has a serial connector on it (along with something else), but tracking one of those down seems to be utterly impossible and then I assume there might be more proprietary PCBs required beyond that.

Would you be able to shed some light on how exactly the AMEX board interfaces with the control panel in the genuine cabinet?

 

Since the slider serial connector on the control panel is a 5 pin connector with only 3 wires connected, does that mean that essentially Sega is converting the cable from the custom connector to mini USB, then from mini USB to the 5 pin connector just to plug directly in to the slider? That's such a crazy roundabout way of doing things.

The buttons were the primary reason I was looking at maybe switching across, currently I use a cheap "zero latency" USB controller PCB to interface with them which works.... but not great. The wiring is like Spaghetti Junction, sometimes it just stops functioning in Windows and the PC detects it as a DirectInput device which PD Loader doesn't exactly have the best support or documentation for. I've built a small arcade cabinet for multiple rhythm games where I can quickly switch the control panel to suit the game, hence wanting to simplify the PD controller wiring.

 

Because Japanese arcade makers like fake connectors, so that average Jon Doe who got the hardware from unauthorized resellers can have more chance of frying the hardware or their computer and the secret is kept if one or both are ded :D (jk

 

HEY, Where did you buy the arcade machine , im searching in a lot of pages but there are no secure and i what to buy one. ):

 

And a lot of work after bying to make it work :))

 

i'm back with another request :)
i'm making a slider emulation and i have encountered few problems. it's working fine on an arduino but after porting it to psoc reporting of activated slider sections broke.
can you run eltima serial port monitor with connected slider and upload the session ?
i want to know how reporting works on an original slider and the data from github is not enough

 

thanks but it doesn't fully show how the slider works :( so please use the other program if you can
on arduino in this view it looks exactly like your logs but i don't know if it works the same.
on the other hand this is how it looks on psoc

 

also, logs posted on github directly from the arcade machine look even clean than yours.
i wonder if the pd launcher adds some kind of emulation