4-Player X-Men Restoration/Conversion

[MK3FAN]

I was waiting to post this project until it was complete. Just finished it up tonight. Here is a detailed account of my recent X-Men resto/conversion. The cabinet was originally a TMNT that was converted to an NBA Jam Extreme. I already have a TMNT and a Simpsons, so I wanted to add an X-Men to the collection as well. The cabinet was in rough shape but wasn't too far gone. It took a lot of work and some TLC to get it looking great again. I picked it up on the cheap so it was worth the effort.

Several months ago, I designed some repro side art based off the 6-player machine's art because (at the time) there was no source for repro 4-player X-Men side art. Rich over at ThisOldGame just released original repro 4-player art but I already had my version printed out, so I went with mine. It's not a big deal to me. Kind of makes mine more unique.

I completely cleaned the cabinet inside and out, stripped and sanded it down, and applied the art. I installed all new sticks, buttons, power supply, marquee light, new Lexan for the control panel, new CPO, new marquee, new t-molding, new locks/coin door parts, and some custom credit momentary push buttons just below the coin slots to match my other two machines. I had to use one of my spare monitors because the cabinet came without one. It's a 25" Neotec that's been freshly capped and has a new flyback. It's looking great. I also had to fabricate new P3 and P4 harnesses/connectors because the NBA Jam wiring was different and not complete in the cabinet.

Now here's the bad part of the story.

I needed a PCB, of course. After nearly a month and a half, one finally arrived today. I bought and paid for 2 PCBs from two different people and they never showed up. The sellers never responded to messages and I got ripped off twice. I found another seller offering a PCB at a good price, I paid for it and it ended up not being available. The seller admitted he made a mistake and I DID receive a refund for that one.

So at that point, I was 0-3 on boards.

I got lucky and found a guy across the pond who had one for sale (a bit pricey) but the audio chip had been re-capped and the board was fully working. It arrived today, I tested it and it worked great. Got it installed in the machine and the project is now complete....finally. Here are all the  pics. Thanks for looking...

[Malenko]

been following over at KLOV, glad you finally landed a board! 

[MK3FAN]

been following over at KLOV, glad you finally landed a board! 

Yup. Thanks.

[bfauska]

That's a big improvement in the before/afters. Good work.

[Cobolisdead]

Great job man! That is one impressive arcade that you have there!

[MK3FAN]

Thanks guys!