I bought a Project Diva Arcade Future Tone Cabinet!

It's been 1 year today since my cabinet arrived and filled my living room up with parts...



And I've just made a video showing the Nu system in detail with the modifications I've made to it...

 

Ha, this was on the day it arrived last year. I can however try to make some scans of the rest of the art.

Until then, I've taken some head on pictures or most of the parts...
https://mikucity.com/projectdiva/cabinet/closeup/

Judging by the quality of the previous things i've scanned, many of these pictures appear clearer without the grain the scanner adds, especially the colour accuracy.

 

I'll have a go at it during the week.

 

I've made some scans, some bits are blurry as the parts are too large to fit in the scanner and touch it's glass surface.

I've made PNG and layered PSD files with each scanned section joined together.
It's not perfect but shows the complete designs of the panel, speaker covers and fabric side art with enough detail to recreate them with some editing...

https://mikucity.com/projectdiva/cabinet/scans/

The panel shown is the spare one that originally came with the cab and has some rust on the edges, but the art is in great condition still.

 

Yes, they are stickers on a thin plastic disc that fits under the dome part. They have a notch so they don't rotate.

 

I'll have a try tonight or tommorow, I don't think I've seen anything using Com 4 though. just 1, 10, 11 and 12.

The older ringedge version may have them numbered differently as it has labeled COM1, 2 & 3 ports on the rear. Two would be in use by the touchscreen and card reader, leaving 1 spare for somthing else.

 

I've had a quick look this morning, when running the game nothing apears to use COM4, i'll have to find another program to monitor it properly as the one i've used before won't work as it's expired - any recomendations?

There's nothing in the cab called Lamp ctrl bd, even in the manual. I found this reference to it from somone usung teknoparrot:

In the service manual the side partition lights are refered to as "lamp" so it's possible the older one has a seperate board to control them via com4, but that seems odd as the JVS I/O can easily power and control them - unless they didn't think of that on the first version.

 

Never seen the old version's boot up before - interesting. I'll try again tonight, I would need to configure a serial port to be COM4 for there to be somthing to monitor right? as the game isn't creating one.

Plus the output would be limited as the lamp board isn't there to repond / handshake with the game?

 

Got the elitima monitor one to work again...
https://mikucity.com/projectdiva/serial/

you might need to add the "firm" folder and its contents to the root of your project diva install folder as the game looks for this when booting to make the card reader update its firmware and be usable. The reader is a Zixsys TN32MSEC003S

files...
com10 is me going to card test menu and touching a card on it.
com1 is the touch screen up to pressing the screen to start.
com11 file is just a bit of slider use.

com12 port present in device manager but did nothing

No way of making com4 do anything - i changed physical com1 port to com4 so i could monitor it but nothing happened.
I think com12 on this Nu's amex board was com4 on the ringedge maybe.

Only way to find out is to see what port the old version of the game is using for the card reader - if somthing other than com10 on that version.

 

No, but I'm sure it needs to be a native serial port and not a USB adapter etc as I could never get mine to work with an adapter.

If the bootup check is detecting the touch PCB ok you might want to check the cable that goes from the glass to the touch screen's PCB. It could have been damaged as when removing the cabs screen bezel the cable has to be unplugged before lifting it up too far, or it might even be unplugged.

I use PD-loader still yes, and quite an old version too - 1.5 I think as the newer versions seem to cause some frame dropping on the limited hardware that I can't seem to resolve.