Ring King, or not?

[Hammerfist]

I just scored this beauty (not including the nets though ) for 70 euros (a bit under 90$), but I can't seem to find that same marquee graphic for Ring King. That makes me wonder, if this is some repro/bootleg or something of sorts. Anyone got an idea? Only found the original Ring King from klov and from around the net.

But hell, for that money it's worth picking up just for the cab and electronics. I'm not sure yet if the monitor works "out of the box" or needs some lovin'.

[matsadona]

My guess would be that it is an Italy made repro/bootleg. Zaccaria is one vendor that was “famous” for doing that…

[paigeoliver]

European cabinets (bootleg or not) often just didn't have the same artwork as the American ones you see on the internet all the time.

[Gray_Area]

None of that art was on the American version.


http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9319


You apparently don't have the [original] Japanese version, either.

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8312

[Hammerfist]

Yeah, I'm going to pick it up today and then the mystery might open up a bit . I don't mind really, the cabinet itself looks perfect for making a repro of some other cab, considering it's not an original to preserve.

[Hammerfist]

Found this from the Internets. So it is an original cab. Just that it's not working, but I'm in the process of finding out why.

Seems that the angle of the monitor can be changed. Not bad! But like the name says, it is a bigger cab @ 73" tall.

[paigeoliver]

That isn't particularly tall. Most full size classic era cabinets are within an inch or so of 6' (72").

[Hammerfist]

That isn't particularly tall. Most full size classic era cabinets are within an inch or so of 6' (72").

Yeah, very true. My current project cab is just one of the smaller ones, so I hadn't thought about it really . More "small apartment" friendly, that is.

[Gray_Area]

I thought it might be original. UK/Euro art was pretty campy. In fact, the CP and bezel art look a lot like other UK/Euro retro dscabs I've seen.

[Hammerfist]

I thought it might be original. UK/Euro art was pretty campy.

My friend likes the art, I really don't . It's just that the wiring isn't Jamma. I know that Ring King is Data East -wiring, but it seemed that they had made an adapter. Then last night I checked the adapter more thoroughly and even though it is Jamma-compatible size wise, the wiring is all wrong. I found a blog, where someone had the same cab and went trough it. Reference from there "The cab is natively wired for Electrocoin, something which is apparently fairly uncommon as most Mk3 cabs were wired for Jamma." (http://www.insertcoin.org.uk/).