What style cab is Street fighter 2: CE?

[skid_68]

Is it close to a defender cab? A guy wants to sell me a SF in a defender cab, and I wanted to know how close the two cab designs were.

[paigeoliver]

Street Fighter games were almost all conversions, those that were "dedicated" came in generic Dynamo cabinets so they STILL looked like conversions.

[skid_68]

Thanks paige. Apparently this is a defender cab, sidearts and all, with just a Street Fighter pcb inside. Im not too sure if I want it, but Im gonna go take a look at it anyway.

[elvis]

SF2:CE was smack bang in the JAMMA era.  You'd be lucky to find dedicated cabs, as most where generic JAMMA cabs with a bezel and marquee slapped on.

Here in Australia, Leasure and Allied Industries (LAI) mad almost all of the generic JAMMA cabs that SF2 machines lived in.

[paigeoliver]

I would buy if it the price was nice. Defender is one of the best cabinets around. Well built, lightweight, nice viewing angle on the monitor, monitor sits on a shelf so it is easy to service, and the control panel is a flat rectangle of wood. It is plywood not particle board (so it doesn't fall apart or swell up like Atari cabs do).

Defender is pretty much the easiest 19" cabinet in the world to deal with.

[daveg2000]

(But it would be REAL small for a 2-player street fighter layout)

I'm using one and have 2 sets of controllers on it.
The 2 players are SO close together, its kind of uncomfortable.

If its your Girlfriend or Wife you are playing against, then
maybe that might be fun

[NoOne=NBA=]

(But it would be REAL small for a 2-player street fighter layout)
You are talking about a control panel that is like 24" wide

You make that sound out of the ordinary.
I'd bet MOST of the SF cabs were within an inch or so of that.
They were mostly conversions in classic cabs, which were ALL that size.

Now if the control panel was hacked up and made larger, that
may be a different story.

Yep.
Then it would be ugly and worthless.

[daveg2000]

You make that sound out of the ordinary.
I'd bet MOST of the SF cabs were within an inch or so of that.
They were mostly conversions in classic cabs, which were ALL that size.

Really?
Interesting.

[NoOne=NBA=]

The majority of them looked like these.

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9814&letter=S
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9815&letter=S
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9818&letter=S
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9959&letter=S

Even the ones that did have the bigger panel often looked like this.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9804&letter=S

[paigeoliver]

Ones with 24" panels and 19" monitors pretty much outnumbered the 25" machines with the bigger panels about 10 to 1.

You didn't really start to see the Streetfighter series in bigger cabinets until much later in the series when they started converting all those 4 player Konami cabinets and the Dedicated Mortal Kombats to the newest SF. But the dedicated Mortal Kombats didn't have really big panels either.