Capcom Vs SNK

[aftershock911]

Background story but it has nothing to do with my question down below other than to add color.

Ok I have been looking around for an old cab to MAME for a few weeks a few deals have fallen through and I was ready to give up and just go down to Lowes / Home Depot and buy the material to build my own Friday after work.
I have been doing a few on the side things for extra cash. PC repair, iPhone/iPod reapirs and jailbreaking... you know geek stuff. I have a guy call me up today (I jaibroke his wifes phone last week) and asked me if I could fix a cracked screen in his iPod. I just happened to have the stuff on hand and told him to come on. While I repaired it he used my laptop for email and had seen I was looking at old cabs. He said I have an arcade machine if your interested. We talked about it and he says it a Capcom vs SNK his uncle had in his pizza joint when he died and its been in his spare room since then. he still has keys, manual and it all works great and in great shape. I ask him what he wants for it. His reply was "I will swap you for the repair if you come get it.: Well i am out $18 in parts and 15 min time on this repair.... H#ll yeah I will come get it tomorrow evening! I tried not to pee as I giggled like a little girl after the door closed behind him.

Question is....
If this machine is in the condition he says do I maybe do a little resto work to it and keep it original. OR ....... Do I gut, refinish and MAME it out???
I really never expected to have something like this drop in my lap. I always figured (and want) a MAME.
My thinking is put a little into it and go ahead with my build from scratch I mean d@mn if I put $100 into this thing I still come out way ahead. Right?

[sunrise3500]

If it's in good condition you can probably easily fix it up, sell it (since mame is your real interest) and make a profit and use those funds to reinvest into your mame cab. You'll learn a lot just by messing with it when it comes to doing yours. Lots of things that you wouldn't have initially thought of. So you'll end up getting your mame cab right the first time round.

If it is crapped out, then it might make a better shell for mame anyway.

Wait and see what you get!

[amendonz]

if it's capcom vs snk 2 you have struck gold lol. its probably not but i'm a bit excited for you 

chuck up some photos when you get it

[aftershock911]

Seems to be a good day I was just contacted about a good condition Tekken 2 machine in working order for $200. (Would love to upgrade this to Tekken 3 as it was my favorite.) Going to pick this up Friday night.
Now it seems if I dont stop this my little apartment will run out of room fast.

Does anyone know of a way to leave an original machine together and drop in a Mame system on a switch?
Seems this may be possible if I dual wire the switches to an Ipac, put splitters on the audio and video inputs and wire the power supplies to a toggle with a delay so that 2 systems will never be powered on at the same time.
Any one know of the being done in the past and maybe a few pointers or walk through or some such?

[bkenobi]

It's been done and it's definitely a possibility.  You'll find a lot of info here if you can find the right threads (I can't think of an appropriate search term though).  Anyway, in the mean time, you might look at a jpac and a multi-jamma adapter.  It might work for what you want.  Be aware that 6 buttons are not in the JAMMA spec, that would add a little complexity.

http://www.jammaboards.com/store/6-in-1-multijamma-switcher-pcb/prod_250.html

Good luck!

[aftershock911]

Thanks for the info on the multi JAMMA board.
I believe I can achieve the results I am looking for with the following items.

2N1 JAMMA Switcher
http://www.jammaboards.com/store/2-in-1-multijamma-switcher-pcb-gbs-8118-/prod_324.html?ccSID285e73f64c04744fc5f33ff68f529742=2ecc6cbcca5ee389b5982b6bb8dbc06d
JPAC
http://www.ultimarc.com/jpac.html
CPS-II/_III and Naomi 6 button harness
http://www.jammaboards.com/store/capcom-cps-iii-/-cps-iii-/-naomi-auxiliary-kick-harness/prod_49.html?ccSID285e73f64c04744fc5f33ff68f529742=2ecc6cbcca5ee389b5982b6bb8dbc06d

Any thing else anyone can think of I might need?
To start with there will not be any trackballs, yokes, spinners, guns or the like.
I want to keep the cab as original as possible in case I ever want to sell it as a dedicated.
The 4 extra buttons that will be added can be removed and the holes covered with an extra CP art sheet.

I finally got this machine to my office so I can start work on it.
It is Capcom vs SNK
I did get lucky and got the Capcom Qsound cabinet. Its a bit large but I have always liked these cabs. Something about having the speakers pointed right at your head maybe.   
I am excited even tho it wasn't CvS 2.
This machine was a steal. Very little work needed to get it back to like new condition.

Work needed

• New CP art sheet (rust stains from humidity it appears)
• New hex head wood screws to hold the plexi CPO in place (starting to rust)
• New Plexi on marquee (cleaned with something that clouded a section of the panel)
• One coin Mech bulb and some work to the "eject mech" (probably a little WD40)
• Hole patch and paint where Coin door had at one time a secondary "bar lock"

All controls in prefect shape. Monitor is crisp, clear and bright.
Cab is in great shape. Tmolding is great and not loose. LARGE marquee. (soon to be replaced with an LCD monitor to display mame marquee for each title as its being played and hopefully i can overlay the High scores and some type of visual when media is being played)
The speakers have a nice arcade quality but may be upgraded to a 5.1 when mame is running.


I will get some pix of the Cab as is some time today.

I just wanna thank you guys for being so helpful.
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[kalars123]

If your interested in a Tekken 3 PCB I have 1 would love to get rid of, whoever had my MK1 cab before me bastardized it with Tekken 3, send me a PM and we can work out the details if ya interested