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Dynamo HS-9A Project - Street Fighter.......[Update 11-3-12]
TGov:
I picked up a Dynamo HS-9A cab the other day off of CL for a decent price and I am now starting to wonder the direction I should take regarding artwork and theme. It was advertised as having a 39 in 1 card in it and the ad said that the monitor 'needed adjusting'. Turns out the ad was right as after about half an hour of messing with the monitor adjustments and the horiztonal size coil I got the monitor working pretty well. I think I going to end up keeping this cab for my horizontal MAME machine. I have a DK that I will be using for vertical games, but I would like to use this cab for everything else.
The monitor is mounted vertically now, but with these cabs it is easy to switch it the other way. The CP that is on there now isn't much good to me as I want to put in a trackball and spinner for this cab. I am not a fan of the angled front and the angle that the CP sits either. My plan is to build a new CP out of wood that is about 10" deep (front to back) and sits at a shallower angle.
Cosmetically the cab is in pretty good shape. As you can see there are some corners that need fixing, but I plan on repainting the cab anyways. I also plan to reinforce the joints while I am at it with some wood screws as I have read that these are just held together with glue and dowel rods. :dunno
My question is, since this is a generic cab, what kind of theme artwork should I go for? I could always go with the generic 'multicade' type artwork, but I am not a fan of that. Down the road I might want to sell this cab and I was thinking that a fighting game theme would work well in this style of cab and those always seem to be popular. I, however am not a huge fighting game fan, but if the theme art works out well enough I may lean that direction. A generic NEO-GEO theme might work ok as well as this is a similar cab shape. What do you guys think?
I will keep this thread updated as I make progress.
TGov:
Pics kept failing to load, hopefully they show up now.
TGov:
crap, got the pics out of order, oh well, you get the idea.
TGov:
Good ideas.....keep them coming :lol :dizzy:
Anyways, here are a couple of quick ideas for a theme. I think I might really like to do a Metal Slug theme as I love that series and you don't see many cabs if at all with MS art on them.
TGov:
Here is a Marquee idea.
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