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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #80 on: April 28, 2021, 11:32:38 pm »
But those are all drawn in the same style.

I thought you were supposed to grab random characters in

different art styles and cram them together.

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« Reply #81 on: April 28, 2021, 11:37:37 pm »
Don't forget Q*bert, because naturally you'd want Q*bert on a fighting cab :(=

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« Reply #82 on: April 28, 2021, 11:43:15 pm »
Zebidee has a point Yotsuya.

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« Reply #83 on: April 28, 2021, 11:48:34 pm »
But those are all drawn in the same style.

I thought you were supposed to grab random characters in

different art styles and cram them together.
What are we, farmers?


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« Reply #84 on: April 30, 2021, 07:46:39 am »
The bezel turned out to be a pain in the ass.

I am almost done with it.

Since I am staying faithful to SF2 CE artwork, the original bezel is pretty square.

My jank ass cab has a rectangular opening for the bezel.

I tried just creatively cropping the original, but that did not work out.

So I found a Hi Res pic of just the background. I sized it to my bezel area.

I put a white square where I need to cut out for the viewable area.

Next I grabbed a Hi Res image of the real bezel and I cropped out the characters and text from that and pasted it onto my new bezel background.

This has been a good learning experience in basic photoshop skills. I think I am doing okay so far.

I didn't have to really create anything, just cut and paste.

Here it is:



I still need to add a bit to the top right corner.

I also might need to remove the Capcom logo due to the way the CP meets the Bezel glass.


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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #85 on: April 30, 2021, 08:19:59 am »
Effort? If you’re going for the actual in-circuit feel, just slice half the portraits off to make it all fit.  :lol

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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #86 on: April 30, 2021, 08:22:56 am »
That is kind of what the guy before me did.

He put Street Fighter in this cab and cut down the marquee and hacked up the cardboard bezel to fit.

He didn't even mount the PCB. It was sitting on the floor of the cab.

The CP had so many holes in it that some of the buttons were only mounted in the plexi he put over the top of the CPO.
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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #87 on: April 30, 2021, 08:30:19 am »
The man sounds like a master at his craft. His dedication to authenticity should be applauded. He created an authentic, burn down the Chuck E. Cheese quality gaming experience that only a cut-rate operator could provide.

I'm feeling nostalgic just thinking about how ground down those joysticks must have felt.

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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #88 on: April 30, 2021, 08:37:16 am »
I can't remember if I took a pic. I will look back.

The marquee light fixture was a standard porcelain incandescent socket with a 60 watt bulb in it.

Burned out...naturally. The socket was held in place with 2 nails bent over to wedge it in place.

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« Reply #89 on: April 30, 2021, 09:17:42 am »
Oh, the authenticity... hard to get bent nails these days. Just go down to the hardware store and ask, mostly all you'll get is bank stares. As for the 60 watt incandescent bulb, that belongs in a museum!

Seriously though, have you thought about putting an instructions banner across the bezel, below the monitor? I never know what the special moves are.
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« Reply #90 on: April 30, 2021, 09:53:14 am »
The problem is the way this cab is designed I don't think I have the room down there for anything.

The monitor is at a weird angle and the bottom of it is shifted forward.

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« Reply #91 on: April 30, 2021, 10:28:03 am »
I bet it was a originally a vertical cab, and they shoehorned that horizontal monitor in.


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« Reply #92 on: April 30, 2021, 10:55:31 am »
Everything had SF2 shoe horned into it back in the day.  SF2 probably saved arcades for another 5 years.


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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #93 on: April 30, 2021, 11:37:53 am »
Everything had SF2 shoe horned into it back in the day.  SF2 probably saved arcades for another 5 years.

I had a track and field converted to SFII back in the day, one of the first cabs I ever bought. Had *A* rainbow edition hack, not *THE* rainbow edition hack.
Specials in air, not turbo speed, hit start to change fighters midmatch , projectiles instant hit, and chunli's air footstop hit anywhere, so you could jump her far beyond the top of the screen.

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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #94 on: April 30, 2021, 12:50:26 pm »
Most converted SFs I see are in natively horizontal-aspect monitored cabs, like Joust or Robotron. This is the first time I think I’ve seen one in a vertical cab like this. Should be interesting!


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« Reply #95 on: April 30, 2021, 01:07:13 pm »
You never saw Ms Pac-Man converted to SF2?  C'mon, man, do you even arcade in the 90s, bro?

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« Reply #96 on: April 30, 2021, 01:34:43 pm »
Now I think about it, I was pretty much out of arcades by the time I was 18 (1988) so I missed nearly all of this conversion heresy.

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Re: Janky Street Fighter cab restore sort of...
« Reply #97 on: April 30, 2021, 01:47:20 pm »
Everything had SF2 shoe horned into it back in the day.  SF2 probably saved arcades for another 5 years.

I had a track and field converted to SFII back in the day, one of the first cabs I ever bought. Had *A* rainbow edition hack, not *THE* rainbow edition hack.
Specials in air, not turbo speed, hit start to change fighters midmatch , projectiles instant hit, and chunli's air footstop hit anywhere, so you could jump her far beyond the top of the screen.

good times.

First cab I ever had was the same, a convert of a Trog to a SFII rainbow-ish board. The concept of hack boards was completely foreign to me. I remember being pretty damn confused when I was trying to play it.

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« Reply #98 on: April 30, 2021, 02:14:13 pm »
You never saw Ms Pac-Man converted to SF2?  C'mon, man, do you even arcade in the 90s, bro?
Eff the 90s.

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« Reply #99 on: April 30, 2021, 02:24:32 pm »

You never saw Ms Pac-Man converted to SF2?  C'mon, man, do you even arcade in the 90s, bro?
Eff the 90s.

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« Reply #100 on: April 30, 2021, 02:31:11 pm »
You never saw Ms Pac-Man converted to SF2?  C'mon, man, do you even arcade in the 90s, bro?

I saw a ms pac-man cocktail converted to a sf2...   imagine trying to squeeze 6 buttons an 8-way joystick and a start button on that tiny panel.   

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« Reply #101 on: April 30, 2021, 02:42:52 pm »
Arroyo bought a Joust cocktail that had be converted to a Mortal

Kombat. He is going to deconvert  it back to Joust.

It is funny. It actually works well as a Mortal Kombat.

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« Reply #102 on: April 30, 2021, 04:07:43 pm »
I am doing more work on this cab than I wanted to. It is all screwed together so it is really easy to replace panels.

And it is not a real arcade cab so I am not really worried about how much of the original stuff I replace.

I just cut a new top piece. Next is the back support at the top of the cab.

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« Reply #103 on: April 30, 2021, 04:53:08 pm »
Arroyo bought a Joust cocktail that had be converted to a Mortal

Kombat. He is going to deconvert  it back to Joust.

It is funny. It actually works well as a Mortal Kombat.



Plays surprisingly well in this format, then again I think any game does well in this design. 

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« Reply #104 on: April 30, 2021, 05:25:34 pm »
Arroyo bought a Joust cocktail that had be converted to a Mortal

Kombat. He is going to deconvert  it back to Joust.

It is funny. It actually works well as a Mortal Kombat.



Plays surprisingly well in this format, then again I think any game does well in this design.
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« Reply #105 on: April 30, 2021, 05:37:25 pm »
Part of me wants to say “Fix that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!”, but it kinda works. And at least it was nicely done!

Already got the board stack and now looking for the power supply.  This one will be fixed the right way once I get to it.  Already have a dedicated MK2 that will be a multi MK.  Many restorations in my future.

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« Reply #106 on: May 02, 2021, 09:04:04 pm »
The bezel artwork is done.

I am ready to send it all to the printer.


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« Reply #107 on: May 02, 2021, 09:06:15 pm »
Had to make sure it all fits.

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« Reply #108 on: May 03, 2021, 12:02:32 am »
That’s a hell of a tilt on that crt

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« Reply #109 on: May 03, 2021, 04:45:36 am »
Yes. Whoever built this cab didn't make it deep enough. If I tilt the monitor forward the neck will poke out the back. Also notice how close the monitor is to the front of the cab.

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« Reply #110 on: May 03, 2021, 05:41:04 am »
I honestly don't mind a tilted monitor, but can understand how that would be odd for a fighting cabinet.

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« Reply #111 on: May 03, 2021, 05:52:20 am »
It plays nicely.

It is just designed a little weird with the monitor tilted and the bezel glass straight up.

I thought about changing it, but there is a certain charm to its oddness. So it will stay the way it is.


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« Reply #112 on: May 03, 2021, 08:27:54 am »
where are you putting the cigarette burns on the control panel?

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« Reply #113 on: May 03, 2021, 08:44:51 am »
That is the problem with replacing stuff. No history.

It will just have to tell a story of its own some day.


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« Reply #114 on: May 03, 2021, 09:42:50 pm »
I just sent an email to the guy Malenko recommended for artwork printing.

The new speakers came in today.

Monday is my longest work day so I am not doing anything else.


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« Reply #115 on: May 03, 2021, 09:57:35 pm »
I just sent an email to the guy Malenko recommended for artwork printing.

The new speakers came in today.

Monday is my longest work day so I am not doing anything else.
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« Reply #116 on: May 17, 2021, 06:02:13 am »
The artwork is in the hands of the printer.

Waiting for a quote.

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« Reply #117 on: May 28, 2021, 07:52:41 am »
While I am waiting for artwork to arrive I have been doing some cabinet wiring.

I am wiring in a hi to low signal converter for the audio. I want to pull the PCB amplified mono signal down to line level so I can split it and feed it into a small stereo amp that will drive the two 8 ohm

speakers. That way I can also plug a stereo PCB into this cab when I want to switch things up.

It might be totally unnecessary. I am not sure. But mono PCB amps are typically designed to drive a single 8 ohm speaker. When you drive 2 8 ohm speakers depending on series vs parallel wiring you

get much lower volume or worse with lower impedance you overdrive the PCB amp. Maybe this is why you see so many torched PCB amps.

Any audiophiles here can feel free to correct me on this.

I don't know a ton about it. I already had a converter from another project and they are cheap.


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« Reply #118 on: May 29, 2021, 03:22:28 am »
I am not in a position to call myself an audiophile by any stretch-
But I do know that when you wire speakers in series that the resistance is accumulative and that many people blow amps that way.

16 ohms is a lot for most little amps to push signal through apparently.

I'm dealing with the same consideration on my jRok Multi-Williams at the moment- and I certainly don't want to fry that board.

I believe if you crank audio output from a JAMMA board down as low as you can get signal out of that you can feed that into an amp and it should not blow the input side.
They are all different of course and require experimentation I guess.

I feel like 2.1 audio for an arcade machine is always fun if you can pull it off.
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« Reply #119 on: May 29, 2021, 03:38:48 am »
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