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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3DX+ Machine info, Info on components of WMMT 3DX+ cabinet
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Hi Guys,
I have recently purchased my very own WMMT 3DX+ cabinet for my private collection and use.
As you all know, these machines are old and have been played ALOT leading to alot of worn parts (especially in the Japanese cabinets as they smoke in arcades over there)
My machine was/is not in the greatest condition as bought, however I have done alot of work on reverse engineering the components to replace parts as cheaply as possible.
I found little to NO information on the web currently where someone has posted any sort of detailed information on the maintenance and parts make up on this machine, short of buying brand new parts from Namco (EXTREMELY uneconomical!)
Please feel free to add any knowledge you may have or correct me.
So below is a breakdown of what I have found out about the specs of the Namco System N2 and the cabinet
First of all WMMT3/DX/+ is a LINUX BASED (Debian) game
The System that runs WMMT3/DX/+ is called the Namco system N2.
It comprises of the following components:
MOTHERBOARD
Motherboard is an NVIDIA Nforce2 based chipset (I have not been able to match the board to any manufacturer.. YET)
RAM
The Motherboard accepts up to 2 sticks of 1GB DDR400 3200 speed RAM
CPU
The CPU is an AMD Athlon socket A / 462 type.
My original one was specifically an AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ which was AMDs MOBILE CPU range.
I have test fitted an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ to the Mobo and it worked extremely well. Load times were about 4x faster HOWEVER due to this CPU being for a desktop device after about 10-15 minutes of running the game crashes and resets. I believe this is due to the standard power supply unit not being sufficient for the extra power required for the desktop CPU.
GFX CARD
The Graphics card is a version of the Nvidia Geforce 4 series
POWER SUPPLY
Power supply is a simple 240 volt unit. I beleive it supports about 410 watts
HARD DRIVE
The Hard drive that my unit came supplied with was a 2.5" IDE Seagate 80GB drive with the 3DX+ software installed. The Mobo uses IDE ports
USB DONGLES
My unit also came with 2 security dongles that are REQUIRED to boot the game and are unique to the hard drive serial. They contain a program called HASP V0.06 that is anti piracy security lock software.
EXTRAS
Along with these above components we have less critical ones, such as the sound card setup, which is a simple 5.1 with red and white AUX output that runs to the sound PCB.
There is a connection port for the I/O boards next to the USB / Ethernet ports which connects up all the input devices such as the Steering assembly, card reader and shifter.
Maintenance on the Shifter and Steering assembly are generally simple parts replacement which can be completed with a basic mechanical knowledge, and there is also full cabinet manuals available online to help you step by step on the parts break down (I have a copy and will post on request)
As I find out more about the machine I will be sure to update this article. THANKS!
This post has been edited by Crow on Mar 12 2015, 03:32 PM
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Vash, my machine is from Japan (I am in Australia) but it has the english international version of 3DX+ hard drive installed. As far as the Cabs go all the WMMT 3/DX/+ are the same, they just have different Hard drives and USB dongles installed. There are WMMT 3 HDDs available that I can simply buy and plug into my machine if I wanted, maybe you could PM me the other things you are talking about ![tongue.gif](http://wmexpressway.net/html/emoticons/tongue.gif) In regards to the UK version I would love if someone could take some internal photos of a UK Cab version to see the difference.
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QUOTE (Crow @ Today, 11:45 AM) | Antares, there is nothing to emulate, the N2 is a PC running Linux essentially. What needs to be done is the BIOS BOOT firmware needs to be somehow downloaded and decoded.
The Video card in my machine was thankfully replaced when they did the 3DX+ HDD install (it has an install date taped to it) so hopefully this will last a long time. The display is currently 100% no dead pixels no colour fading or burned image (which I was very surprised!) i will post up a few pics of my machine soon so you guys can see the ins and outs of it. |
Ohh, thanks for that. I was assuming the N2 is a platform like NAOMI, didn't realize it was referring to the entire machine.
As for the machine, I don't think it's gonna be encountering issues unless cooling becomes a problem. Speaking of which, given the amount of processing the system does, what kind of ventilation/cooling does it have? I'm curious as to how these things run for an entire day at arcades of varying temperatures and still keep on going.
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