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Building out a Vewlix so will be here for inspiration and advice

Ignignxkt

Ignignxkt

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Figured I'd finally join. I've been looking on these forums for some time trying to figure out what will be done on my Vewlix Diamond Black once it arrives. I have a number of upgrades I've already planned out and will post my progress as I go on.

Nice to meet you all!
 
Welcome! I recently did the same on the vewlix platform. Read up and enjoy the process of making it your own!
 
Harrier said:
Welcome! I recently did the same on the vewlix platform. Read up and enjoy the process of making it your own!
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Cool, I'll go check it out, thank you. I'll have a Phantom Canyon NUC inside that I've set up, already. I was going to have two PCs in there (one for older games, one for newer) but I consolidated. I got a KVM switcher with remote just in case I want to put a PS5 or something in there one day. Got a stream deck mini for easy loading of big box or steam games. And I'm changing out various hardware including the joysticks and buttons. So long as the importer doesn't +&*^% me over, I should be good! haha
 
Welcome! Congrats on the purchase. Lots of mods for these cabs, have fun and enjoy the process.
 
Welcome! Check out the Vewlix Appreciation Thread (most riveting 100 pages I’ve read in awhile lol) and a couple of the Restoration threads where they go step by step on things. Since you have a Diamond Black, you might be spared the deep clean of nicotine residue and rust removal that owners of L and F like me have had to go through!
 
Yeah, my unit looks super minty. But then again, I'm probably still going to have to clean it out. At the very least I'll be ripping things out like the super loud fans and replacing them etc so I'll clean as I go.

I am confused about the speakers and amp situation, and how they plug in etc. I see a lot of people with volume knobs on secondary panels and I have no idea how they hook it up. If it's just 3.5mm that goes into the amp, or something else like a hard connection soldered to a line?
 
You have your amp as an exposed PCB on the backside of the power volume and monitor dials inside the top right panel that allows for 3.5 input from your devices to the four speakers, each side done in parallel. I haven’t done volume yet but just a manner of doing some wiring to a potentiometer you set on an extra buttons panel, I bet there’s a thread for it somewhere
 
Mirkvid said:
Welcome! Vewlix is such a versatile cab, I have 3 and love them!
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Wow, three!? I won’t lie, I’d love to have a “player 2” cab, but realistically it would never be used. I’m assuming you use jamma boards inside them and run different pcbs on each?
 
DangerousDad said:
Two for head-to-head and one for vertical is the perfect number. If I did that, would absolutely get a Diamond Blue for a third.
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Welcome to the club. I have 2 Chewlix(Chewli?) and not long ago picked up a Diamond Blue project for tate. Brilliant cabs and as Mirkvid said, incredibly versatile!
 
I was going to stop at two, but last time I bought one, the additional shipping for a second cab was so cheap, I bought another. All 3 are JVS, one has a Jammafier in it. I'm running a Type X4 with Steam installed in one, the others have consoles hooked up. I'm over the PCB and CRT life. Too expensive and I spent more time tinkering with hardware than playing, though I totally get the appeal.
 
Yeah, I was gonna stop at just the Chews but then the Dia Blue popped up locally at a ridiculously cheap price on facebook marketplace of all places, so it was incredibly hard to say no, especially as it came with the monitor already rotated and of official Taito JAMMA kit installed.
 
If I can find a second for cheap like that one day I might consider it as a vertical one for shooters. But after what I'm spending on this one, I'm done for a while.

And yeah, I totally agree, Mirkvid, on the crt and pcb thing. I tried it and it was a very frustrating experience that basically lead to me rarely playing anything and always fixing things. I had a galaxian that was constantly giving me issues, even after I recapped everything (that was quite the project). Started failing on me just two weeks later in various other ways. I had pcb issues on two pcbs, one of which could never be resolved. While I didn't have hardware issues on all my stuff, mainly my capcom and namco boards were always fine, it made me paranoid and ruined it.

I now have everything emulated through big box on my phantom canyon pulling from a 5tb hdd. I can't see any difference in my capcom and namco boards on that vs the real boards, and zero headache.
 
Mirkvid said:
Welcome! Vewlix is such a versatile cab, I have 3 and love them!
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