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Marvel Vs Capcom Renovations - UPDATED 05-24, CP WORKING
WhereEaglesDare:
Okay, update time... I'm parting it out and going to turn it into a MAME Cab. This is why I have been asking a lot of monitor questions. I don't know if I wanna put a TV in it or repair the arcade monitor yet...
Over in the B/S/T Forum you'll find the thread if interested, I'm selling the JAMMA boards, the harness, the control panel, the marquee, and probably the screen.
So, now I'm starting the renovations. Here is what I have so far on the new control panel. It ain't much yet. Gonna be two player with 7 buttons on each player. Gonna try to get the plexi for it this week and get the sticks and buttons put in.
Still looking for art concepts for it... Any good ideas? Got a few ideas.
- Ghost Busters - World War 2 (Day of Defeat)
- Fall Out 3 - Team Fortress 2
- US Presidents (George Washington Choke Slamming Lincoln)
- Terminator 2 - The Original Power Rangers from the Early 90s
- The Tick
- Ronald Reagan Vs. The Commies
Reagan with a shirt and tie on, sleeves rolled up, two M-16s blowing away the Reds, leaning a stack of skulls. Kinda like a Rambo style.
Just a few idea I have had... any other good ones out there or your vote on which I should use?
WhereEaglesDare:
Okay, had to take a break but here is an update. I was able to sell the CPS game, harness, and marque, so now I had enough to get the parts I needed for the CP. I could not decide what theme or colors to use, so my son picked it out for me, he picked blue and orange. They are on their way from GGG! I'll let yall know about my experience with him when I get them.
I cleaned up the coin doors and mechs. I painted the door and cleaned the mechs, had to replace one of the switches, but now all four mechs work great. I applied power to the lights using an ATX Power supply and found two of the bulbs are burned out, gotta order new bulbs, going to by autozone to see what they got.
I got the PC put together: 2GHz P4, 160 HDD, 512 MB RAM, NVIDIA 5200FX S-Video Out, running MAME 0135 with a current rom set with all the art and avi snaps. Decided on GameEx because of it ease of setup, its ability to run on a lower end machine, play internet radio in attact mode, play movies (which I likely wont do much of but it is awesome that I could) etc,. I did test out, MameWah, HyperSpin, MaLa, and AtomicFE and spent a day or two on each. Hyperspin would have been a close second, but it requires more of a PC and I dont see why someone would buy a 500 dollar PC for a MAME Cab when most games will run on a P3.
I am going to replace the screen with a TV, I have a 27 in that I may use, still looking for a better option, I have a week or two until I want to have it all finished up.
Still havnt found art that I like yet, a poster would be easiest but the panel is 40 x 15 so that wont work, I got to get something specially printed.
I still have to get Plexi glass for both the Screen and the CP.
I dont know if I am going to redo all the TMOLDING or not, I bought some of the Cool Blue for the CP, we'll see how it works out.
Planning on adding some AIMTRAK Guns also, but Im gonna wait til I get the machine mostly running and put together.
Any ideas or suggestions?
WhereEaglesDare:
Here is the completed and powered up CoinDoor. The orginal bulbs were for a car's instrumentation panel. (#161 $5 for a two pack) so I put in generic BRAKE lights! ($2 for a two pack) Yea, they are a lot brighter than the originals. So now it is done, scratched off the stickers, painted it with flat black and then some super high gloss clear spray paint. Rewired the whole thing, changed the terminals out, and fixed it so the left 2 are for a player 1 coin, and the right 2 are for a player 2 coin. All four are operational.
Edit: And I got a new lock for it, havnt installed it yet, until I get the cab finished but thats another thing.
WhereEaglesDare:
Started tearing it down, posting pics for other Noobs like me can see what the inside kinda looks like.
1 - Screen with Wood Bezel
2 - Screen without bezel, I guess it will pull out through the front
3 - Marquee Holding Bracket
4 - Without the Marquee
5 - Kick Harness For Malenko
6 - Marquee and CPS2 Cart - Again for Malenko
7 - Counter Could I rewind the numbers on this counter?
I am going to pull the monitor out and put in a TV so I'll post pics of that as well, looking to do it tonight.
WhereEaglesDare:
slammed the new blank panel on there to make sure it fits... like a glove!