Name that cab!

[Skivt68]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here and I need your help figuring out what kid of cab this is.  Some back story first: I was browsing my local Craigslist when this ad came up for an arcade business clearing out and they had cabs for sale. I shot the guy and email and asked him what he had.  The one the peaked my interest was this Power Stone cabinet.  He says the dimensions are (HxWxD) 5'x2'2"x3'4" and supposedly 250 lbs.  What cabinet model is this a conversion of, or what is the kind of cab?  I would like to know as I plan to keep the Naomi inside it and possibly add a Mame pc.  I need to know if it's a wood or metal CP as I plan to bondo the holes and drill new ones to convert the power stone 3 button to an astro 6 layout.  I am going to possibly go take a look t the cab soon, to check for any burn-in, flaws,and make sure it is working properly.Here is a picture of said cab:


Side note: What do you guys think the black spot on the CP is?

[CoryBee]

[darkSSide]

You should have gotten that MK behind it.

Sent from my Atari 2600

[Skivt68]

I actually haven't bought the cab yet, and he didn't have (what looks like) the MK for sale.  The other notable cab he's selling if a Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter in the exact same style cab.  If any of you want, I can post a pic of that too (he sent me pics of all he's selling), as the cab is exactly the same, but I am not interested in buying it.  Also, the reason that I am interested in the Power Stone is because I have been looking for a Naomi cabinet so i can possibly sell the Power Stone cartridge and get me a nice GD-ROM Drive/CF Reader to play my favorite (so far) Naomi game Capcom vs SNK 2!

EDIT/UPDATE
Here is the photo of the Mavel vs SF cab that he sent me if it helps in the identification process:


Notice the simmilarities 

[Malenko]

You should have gotten that MK behind it.

Sent from my Atari 2600

Thats a Gauntlet Dark Legacy cab, none of the MKs had a big MIDWAY logo at the top, and the purple control panel is sort of a dead give-away. Sadly , Im not sure exactly what your cab is, Ive seen it in a TON of conversions. Everything from Street Fighter Alpha to Area 51. It *might* be a generic Dynamo, but I cant say for sure.

[Skivt68]

You should have gotten that MK behind it.

Sent from my Atari 2600

Thats a Gauntlet Dark Legacy cab, none of the MKs had a big MIDWAY logo at the top, and the purple control panel is sort of a dead give-away. Sadly , Im not sure exactly what your cab is, Ive seen it in a TON of conversions. Everything from Street Fighter Alpha to Area 51. It *might* be a generic Dynamo, but I cant say for sure.

Thanks for the reply.  I think it looks like a more modern version of a Dynamo HS-10 from this site: http://www.drzero.org/videogames/dynamo/, but with a more modern look, i.e different speaker grilles and a different monitor bezel instead of the plexi one shown there, unless the current bezel is covered by plexi that I can't see in the picture.  This leads me to think it's a wooden/mdf CP, which would be preferable for bondo work.  I don't have really that much experience woodworking, but I have an uncle with phenomenal skills and a fairly large workshop who builds props so if I end up picking it up I may give him a call to ask if he could give me some guidance for redoing/filling the CP and/or restoring the cab's woodwork if it has any issues.

[Unstupid]

Side note: What do you guys think the black spot on the CP is?

Ashtray!   

[Skivt68]

Side note: What do you guys think the black spot on the CP is?

Ashtray!   

Haha maybe. I might be going down to check it out this weekend, so I'll see how it goes and if I can get it for a decent price, I'll have my first cab.   
Unstupid, actually, your Neo-Geo bartop was one of the machines that really got me interested in arcade cabs, looks really nice.
My plan is to add buttons and possibly swap the sticks.  I'll either add in a MAME pc with a Jamma adapter, or just get a 60-in-1 or one of those neat Blue elf boards.  I think it may be cheaper to go the MAME route as I already have a netbook or a desktop that I could throw in there and the J-PAC is about $100 less than a Blue Elf 2.

[paigeoliver]

I have heard the Blue Elfs are terrible.

[Skivt68]

Yeah, after doing some research, i think the the most affordable/best solution is to use the pc i already have and buy an arcade vga-3000 and a jpac.  That way I can choose whatever games I want that way and I already know how to configure mame.

[paigeoliver]

I really don't suggest getting into the various multiboards and kits until you have completed your first general mame cabinet. The multiboards generally involve serious compromise. They are great for filling out a gameroom or getting a cheap multicade going on an original monitor, but they generally pale in comparison to a full mame cabinet. In most cases you have to turn off a serious chunk of the games on the multiboard because they either don't run correctly or because the board mixes control types freely.

I have a few multis myself.
60 in 1 in a scratchbuilt cabaret (8-way and trackball games turned off).
138 in 1 in a Cliff Hanger cabinet (4-way and trackball games turned off).
19 in 1 in a converted poker cabaret (Defender, Stargate and 4-way games turned off).
jRok Multiwilliams in a Robotron cabinet.
161 in 1 Neo Geo in a dedicated Samurai Shodown II cabinet.
Space Invaders 8 in 1 multigame in a Midway Space Invaders upright.

[Skivt68]

Just curious, how did the multigame neogeo cart work out? I may consider that an option as the pc I have may not be powerful enough to run some of the games I want to play.  I  think that maybe getting a 1 slot with a 160-in-1 would be a good option.  Or is you could recommend some specs for a cheap pc?  The games i really want to have are: Galaga, 1944, rest of the 19xx series if possible, donkey kong, mario bros, galaxian, and maybe dodonpachi.  Also, some non mame emulators that I would like to include are, a neogeo emulator, and possibly a naomi/dreamcast emulator unless I shell out for a dimm board and CF reader to use on the one in the cab or buy a dreamcast to jamma adapter.  What PC specs would run all of the games excluding the naomi emulator?  Also, what specs would be good for all including the naomi/dreamcast emulator?

[Malenko]

MAME runs all the neogeo games AFAIK and the requirements are quite low, Neogeo specific emulators have even lower requirements. I was playing NeoGeo games full speed way back in the P4 1.8 days if memory serves.  There is also a fine line between asking for help and asking other to do your research, look up the naomi/dc emus and find out their specs and plan accordingly. Also, you are mixing a lot of vertical and horizontal games; are you planning to rotate the monitor or play with black bars?

[Skivt68]

Thanks for the reply about the neogeo emulator requirements.  I know I am mixing games quite a bit.  This is all up in the air until I get the cab (in the process of setting up a time for me to inspect and haggling prices). I will be keeping the monitor in the horizontal position and playing vertical games with black bars.  Sorry about asking for specs, I do know a fair bit about hardware from having built my custom pc last summer, but I was mainly just curious as to what other people are using, forgive my mistake earlier.  I will be doing more research once I get some free time and can start specing-out the (possible) build.  I was asking about a dedicated NeoGeo emulator because the build of mame I'm using (shmupmame 4.2, I love it) doesn't display my neogeo roms as having the rom file, yet when I run them from the gui manualy, they work fine.  I will either have to figure out that issue, or just get the dedicated emulator.

[paigeoliver]

Neo Geo ran full speed on a 500 mhz processor back in the mame .55 days. You will have no problems emulating it.

The Neo Geo multicarts can be flaky because some neo geo motherboards don't like them, and they sometimes have color issues with some games.

I have 3 one slot boards (a big US one, a big japanese one and a little US one). The little US one was very reset prone with the multicarts unless you let the attract mode run for a long time before you started the game (does it with both my multicarts). The big japanese one I have does the same thing with my 150 in 1 cart, but not with my 161 in 1 cart. While the big american one runs both multicarts just fine.