Looking For SF4 Style Images...

[Jdurg]

Hey everyone.  Been a while since I've posted here.  Last time I regularly posted here was seven years ago when I first bought my house and planned on building a full cabinet.  After building, what today looks to be, a frankenpanel I realized that I didn't have a way to build a cabinet that I could fit through the doors in my house.  After having bought a beat-up coin door on E-Bay for a VERY cheap price, I was able to fully clean it up, hammer out dents, paint it a textured black, and restore it and the counter to full working condition.  It currently serves as the world's best piggy bank.   

Over the past few months, I have gotten back into MAME thanks to the great look of the HLSL settings I spent weeks tweaking.  I also got a hold of the real arcade versions of SF 4 and SSF4:AE and have them working flawlessly on my laptop.  (I even added the missing English voices for SF4 pulled from the PC version of the game, and replaced the copyright screen for Asia with the correct wording used in US versions.  Suffice it to say, the games now are as close to perfect as one can get considering US game dumps/cracks simply don't exist for these games).

Playing around with the beautiful look of SF4 and SSF4:AE, coupled with just how great my HLSL settings make SF1-3 look on an LCD screen, I've decided to look into getting a cabinet built for playing the Street Fighter series of games.  Using an LCD screen (I'm thinking of a widescreen, 27"-30" monitor), I should be able to make the cabinet thinner, thus allowing me to get it through doors and into the room where I want it.  I already have the coin door, buttons, joystick, and key-encoder from my previously terminated build and a successful joystick build. 

Due to refinancing my mortgage last year, and a great tax return this year, I have the finances to proceed with this project.  I'm thinking about the hardware for the computer as I want to have a beefy enough system to handle the HLSL feature.  (It runs well on my laptop, but not for too long as the GPU throttles down due to heat.  Shouldn't be a problem in the system in the cab due to more open space and planned water-cooling system).  Although this will be sacrilege to many hear, I'm going to have to pay to have the cab cut and shipped to me for assembly as I do not have the room, or equipment, to do that myself.

Right now, I'm in the early planning stages.  Looking for the monitor is step 1 as the dimensions of the cab are all dependent on the monitor.  So right now I am focusing on the artwork.  The cab will be beige in color with the Street Fighter theme.  It's all I can do at the moment as I had my left shoulder arthroscopically repaired last Tuesday and won't be able to fully use it for a good few months.  (Did a number on it last year when I was lifting weights in the gym and worked through some stiffness and pain as so many idiots advise folks to do).

I'm looking for some high-res images of Ken and Ryu performing a Shoryuken in the SF4 art style.  My plan is to have Ryu on the P1 side of the cab, and Ken on the P2 side.  The Marquee will simply say "Street Fighter", but the art style will transition from SF1 style on the left to SF4 style on the right.  The CP art will be a simple ink-type pattern seen in SF4. 

If anybody has any of the Shoryuken images I'm looking for, please let me know.  I'd prefer larger, hi-res images, but since I'll be converting them to vector images anyway over time, it's not super critical.  Once I get all plans finalized and the build begins, I'll make a post in the Project Announcements forum.

Oh yeah, for software I'll be using a custom compiled MAME for the games, a customized Hyperspin as the front-end to run MAME and load the dumps/hacks of SF4/SSF4:AE, and 64-bit Windows 7 as I have heard it is very compatible, stable, non-intensive resource wise, and the SF4 games will run stable on it.