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Dedicated Mortal Kombat 9
BurgerKingDiamond:
--- Quote from: Gatsu on February 02, 2011, 02:28:36 pm ---Are you still going to make this a dedicated MK9 cab?
If so I'd drop the rotating monitor all together and just get a regular tv or non hidef arcade monitor.
just my thoughts...
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My thoughts exactly. You can get s-video cables for a 360. I've used one before, picture quality is good, and it will make it look legit like an old school cab. Widescreen LCD's don't look too good on an upright wood cab. The proportions are weird. A viewlix or something is another story.
tcleary:
I've been looking around for some sort of widescreen HD CRT. either an old 24" CRT, sony made one, but they are hard to find. or maybe a 26" widescreen hd tv, which are also really hard to find. if I can manage to find one I'll throw it in and put a bezel around it and it will look pretty good. in the meantime I'm just using an LCD in this thing. I think I'm going to do the same thing I did with street fighter and that is hack up control panels. they are making a version called "tournament edition" that comes with the game and a fightstick for $150. so I plan on getting two of those and making a panel out of them. I'll dump the 2nd copy of the game to bring the price down a bit. this will actually be cheaper than what I did last time with the SF4 sticks, those were $200 each, + $50 for the game so I dropped around $450 on it. this time $300 minus whatever I can get for one of the copies of MK9, so probably around $250 for the 2 player panel + the game.
As for side art I'm considering using the MK logo, I've seen some pretty cool looking versions of it. Then i'll just have to figure out something for the Marquee.
tcleary:
now that I think about it, a 27" 4:3 hdtv might work pretty well in the cab too. I got a 27 inch arcade monitor to fit in my other MK cabinet, so I might be able to fit a 27" 4:3 hdtv in, after taking the case off. I had an old sony 36" 4:3 1080i and hd on it looked pretty good, it just put black bars on the top and bottom so it was widescreen. i'm guessing on a 27" it would do the same thing. so the actual picture would probably be around 23"-24" and it wouldn't look weird in the cabinet like an lcd does. so maybe I'll go that route, I'll probably be able to find one for $100 or less too since no one values CRT tvs these days.
what will be a bit of a pain will be taking the TV apart and figuring out a way to mount it.
Donkbaca:
Just build your own CP. It will look better and be way cheaper. The Mortal Kombat sticks are just happ competitions and the buttons are your standard happs buttons.
You are looking at 15 bucks for wood, 20 bucks for sticks, and 15 bucks for buttons, 2 controllers will run you around 60 bucks. a cp overlay will run you around 20 bucks or so. That's 130 bucks. It twill look better and be cheaper.
tcleary:
you're forgetting the trouble of hacking 2 sticks though, add that in and the cost really isn't too much greater to just use 2 of these fight sticks, no hacking necessary. with the SF panel I took off the top piece and mounted that to a piece of wood. looking at these sticks I think I might be able to get away with just putting a hole in the wood and letting them rest on top, if I do that it won't look great though so maybe I will consider the other route, I'm undecided at this point.