Retroelectronik The Supergun Pro Gamer User manual

Retroelectronik
Supergun Pro Gamer
User Manual V1.1 beta

Table of Contents
I- Short word from the creators.........................................................3
II – Compatibilities............................................................................3
II.1- Compatible PCBs....................................................................3
II.2- Power suppl compatibilit .....................................................4
II.3 Compatible controls................................................................4
III- Your Supergun in details..............................................................5
III.1 – JAMMA CONNECTOR.............................................................7
III.2 - Controls................................................................................7
III.3 - The Scart socket.................................................................10
III.4-Audio part of the Supergun..................................................11
III.4.1 - Stereo audio Jack connector «Headphone»..................11
III.4.2 - Stereo audio Jack connector «Speaker».......................11
III.4.3 – Stereo Audio RCA connectors LEFT and RIGHT.............11
III.4.4 - Mono / Stereo audio switch, details of its operation.....12
III.4.5 – Speaker Connectors Right and Left on blocks..............13
III.5 - Power suppl part of Supergun...........................................13
III.5.1 - General information on the power suppl of an arcade
PCB..........................................................................................13
III.5.2 - The ATX connector of the supergun..............................14
III.5.3 - The ON / OFF button and its deportation terminal........16
III.5.4 - Connection of the power terminal blocks.....................17
IV - Available accessories...............................................................17

I- Short word from the creators
Thank you for your interest in the Retroelectronik Supergun
Pro Gamer. Our small team has tried to design with this
supergun the most powerful system available at the best value
for money. The versatility of this system will allow you to
run all J MM PCBs and much derivatives (J MM +, MVS, PGM
IGS, Pandora's box, little elf, 60in1, etc.). We also wanted
to design a simple,user friendly system.Thus,no soldering, is
necessary to operate your supergun, all the configuration will
be done through switches.
II – Compatibilities
II.1- Compatible PCBs
Our supergun is certainly the most versatile in the
market.Indeed it's natively compatible with:
ll PCBs conforming to the J MM standard (including
60 in 1)
ll PCBs conforming to the J MM + standard such as
Street fighter 2, etc. (requires an additional kick
harness cable for buttons 4,5 and 6
rcade Systems SNK Neo Geo MVS
PGM IGS arcade systems (requires an accessory to
play in 4 player mode)
Modified J MM systems such as the Pandora's box and
the little elf (on VG video output or RGB/SC RT
outputs if the PCB can supply a regular 15Khz
signal)
Non-J MM cards using a J MM adapter (Jeutel,
valadon, sega system, etc ...)
Be careful however some of the latest J MM PCBs supply a
random quality video sync signal. This is the case for
Pandora's Box 4. Some of them work very well but some
others display a shifted image and some others supply a
signal too far from the standard 15Khz to be able to
display an image.

II.2- Power supply compatibility
Your supergun can be powered in different ways :
Using a standard 20-pin or 24-pin TX power supply
thanks to its 24-pin TX connector (also 20-pin
compatible but with a better electrical charge
distribution than a 20-pin connector, you deserve
the best :)
Using a standard arcade power supply, which often
also allows the +5V to be adjusted. You can connect
it using the integrated terminal blocks
II.3 Compatible controls
The supergun can be attached:
To any remote arcade system (up to 2 players and 6
buttons per player) thanks to its connection
terminals
To any hacked joystick using the connection
terminals
To any a neogeo pad or compatible using the two DB15
connectors
 To any SEG megadrive / Genesis pad 3 or 6 buttons
using the Sega megadrive/genesis to neogeo adapter
The integrated autofire mode will be available regardless
of the controller you'll use

III- Your Supergun in details
Preliminary,the switchs :
We designed the pro gamer to be as simple as possible without
soldering or jumpers. Configuration can be done using 13 switches:
The Mono / Stereo switch is used to adapt the audio output of
the supergun to the type of your PCB. If your J MM PCB is a
mono sound card, switch it to mono, otherwise switch it to
stereo.
Switches J1 and J2 control the availability of the +5V
respectively on the DB15 pad of player 1 and player 2. If
the pad require to be powered electrically, switch it ON,
otherwise switch it to OFF. Except in rare cases, it's
advisable to leave them at the ON position.

The P1 and P2 switches allow you to choose between standard
J MM / MVS mode and extended 6-button J MM mode. The J MM
6 buttons mode is useful for some very recent cards like the
famous Pandora's Box,it is dedicated to these «Xin1» PCBs
with 6 buttons available. On the other hand, for older cards
such as Street Fighter 2 (CPS / 2), the 3 additional buttons
must be wired using a kick harness and P1, P2 must be
switched to "Standard J MM "
The Voltmeter switch is used to define whether the voltmeter
should display the exact value of + 12V or + 5V
The three RGB switches control the Red, Green and Blue color
respectively.
They activate the potentiometer of the corresponding color
and allow fine adjustments.
The utofire ON / OFF switch enables or disables the autofire
function. To be able to put a button in autofire, it's
necessary that the autofire is ON. Then press simultaneously
Start and the concerned button during 2 seconds.
The switch SW7 activates the self-generation of -5V by the
supergun. If your power supply has its own -5V or your PCB
does not require it, it is recommended to set it to position
2 by default. If you decide to set it to 1, make sure that
your PCB don't need more than 1W or 0.25 mperes (or 2W or
0.5 depending on your model), or you could burn the
transformer that generates it!
The Power switch allows you to turn ON the supergun and the
PCB. Be careful, it only works with TX power supply and when
the SW5 switch is OFF. Using an arcade supply,it will be
useless and always ON. It must be OFF if you want to remote
the power button.
The switch SW5 is used to force the power ON of the supergun.
When ON, the supergun switches to "always ON" mode and
disables the ON / OFF switch. It is usually switch OFF and
must be OFF if you want to remote the power button.

III.1 – JAMMA CO ECTOR
The J MM connector allows you to connect any type of PCB
whether J MM or not (see compatibility section). Be sure
to plug your card in the correct direction, this may seem
self-evident but the lack of mechanical coding is an
element to take into account and plugging a PCB upside
down could destroy it. Commonly, a PCB is defined by a
component side and a solder side.
The compatibility between the different types of cards
(little elf, J MM , J MM +, IGS, MVS, etc ...) and
supergun is ensured by switches and jumpers.
The jamma connector used here is a 56P edge blue. It was
used in the last arcades of origin and defined by the
standard for its robustness. Indeed it can support
several thousand connections / disconnections and is
resistant to time.
III.2 - Controls
The most important part of a supergun! We have worked
here to give you total freedom. The supergun pro gamer
has neo geo pads connectors but also terminal blocks.
That way,you can for example integrate it in a customized
arcade panel or an arcade cabinet; in short, the only
limit is your imagination.
You want to build an ultimate supergun with sanwa buttons
and seimitsu joysticks?
This supergun is for you!
4 small integrated buttons allow you to access to credits
validation,test mode and service features of your PCB.
Each of these buttons can also be easily remoted using
their respective terminal blocks.
The neo geo pads connectors are 100% compatible with SNK
NEO GEO ES pads but are also compatible with extended to
6 buttons pads.

Here are the wiring diagrams (you can freely distribute
if you wish) :
•The autofire is integrated
It is available on both DB15 connectors and terminal blocks.
This for the 6 buttons available to the 2 players.
To activate it, it is enough that the switch "autofire" is ON
at the start of the supergun. From there, press simultaneously
Start and the concerned button during 2 seconds. Do the same
to remove the autofire.
•As an option, the SEGA controllers are also compatible
Our supergun is also planned to be able to benefit from many
improvements, among them, in the register of the controls we
propose for the hardcore gamers : the megadrive / genesis to
NEO GEO which makes it possible to connect on this supergun
any pad / joystick SEG megadrive / genesis 3 or 6 buttons on
the DB15 connection of the Supergun Essential Retroelectronik.
You benefit from the best "made by SEG " controllers or
compatible from the king of the arcade at a much lower cost
than a neo geo pad, the autofire being integrated into the
SEG / Genesis 2neogeo adapter (see its own manual for more
details, it is available on www.r2tronik.com )

•Kic Harness expands the range of possibilities
For the academic definition of the term, I refer you to the excellent Wikipedia article here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick harness
The J MM standard originally provided for 2 players and 3
buttons per player. When the arcade PCB manufacturers started
to launch advanced combat games, they had to increase the
number of buttons to offer a wide range of shots and combos.
C PCOM was thus in a dilemma when Street Fighter 2 was
developed. s a member of the J MM association, it had to
comply with it but needed 3 more buttons.
To stay compatible J MM , C PCOM has decided to add a
connector that included buttons 4, 5 and 6 of each player. On
these cards therefore, the additional buttons are not
available directly on the J MM port. This problem mainly
affects C PCOM cards (CPS1 / CPS2 / CPS3) but also other cards
such as Fighter's History from Data East or Mortal Kombat.
For the development of other systems (MVS, IGS, Little Elf,
Pandora's Box, etc ...), their respective creator chose not to
comply with the standard to 100% to put all the controls on
the connector, the use kick harness is not necessary in this
case.
In order to allow you to use these cards, we have added a Kick
Harness to the Supergun Retroelectronik. This female DB9
connector allows you to add a link cable buttons 4, 5 and 6 of
each player for cards that need it.
We offer these cables for sale on www.r2tronik.com but you can
also make it yourself easily.

Here is the wiring diagram of the Kick Harness of our supergun
(drawn by me and that you can freely distribute if you wish) :
III.3 - The Scart socket
The scart socket of the supergun essential
retroelectronik is wired in audio and video.
The video cabling is RGB (a Scart socket can be wired in
composite or RGB, the RGB offers an image of much better
quality because conveyed on 4 separate wires instead of
one).
Be careful, some SCART cables are simply not wired in
RGB, ma e sure yours is, otherwise you will not have an
image. Retroelectroni also offers guaranteed cables
running on our supergun.
udio cabling is compatible with Mono and Stereo
televisions. It has a galvanic isolation to optimize the
sound quality and to protect all devices (J MM card, TV,
speakers) in case of malfunction or overvoltage on one of
them.
This protection / optimization, is extremely rare on the
superguns but nevertheless primordial with regard to old
cards of collection