Astro City Cab

[mattr]

Hello,

I am thinking of purchasing an Astro City cabinet second hand but I have not found much information on them. Does anyone have experience with these cabinets? I am curious about people thoughts.

Can they can be refurbished with new Happ joysticks and buttons easily?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

[paigeoliver]

The Candy cabinets are all terribly similar, shop by monitor size, condition and location, and not by model.

Yes, you can refit them with US style controls. I left the Japanese controls on mine.

[Dave_K.]

Just my opinion, but I've grown to love the japanese sticks/buttons in my sit-at cabs.   Save the happ stuff for wooden control panels.

[mattr]

I found a working cab with no damage. It comes with a 2 player 6 button cp and a 29" Nanao monitor. It is 5 years old. I assume the monitor is a standard size ?

Im in Oz so its not as cheap as I've seen them in the US but cheaper than I can buy a WG D9200 so that laid my DIY plans to rest. 

I'm told you can rotate (manually) the monitor for vertical. Is this true?

[Dave_K.]

I'm told you can rotate (manually) the monitor for vertical. Is this true?

Yes you can.  Look at the last couple posts in this thread for more info:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,35529.0.html

[mattr]

Thanks Dave.

Curious how your cab is going? Did you use an AVGA with the 5v booster?

Cheers,
Matt

[paigeoliver]

I found a working cab with no damage. It comes with a 2 player 6 button cp and a 29" Nanao monitor. It is 5 years old. I assume the monitor is a standard size ?

Im in Oz so its not as cheap as I've seen them in the US but cheaper than I can buy a WG D9200 so that laid my DIY plans to rest. 

I'm told you can rotate (manually) the monitor for vertical. Is this true?

They should be CHEAPER in Oz, it is a much shorter boat trip there than to the US. From what I here there is at least one Aussie operator who imports them by the container full just to pull the monitors out and then trashes the cabinets. Someone here picked up one or two of them from him.

[Dave_K.]

Curious how your cab is going? Did you use an AVGA with the 5v booster?

My astro cab project got sidetracked the last couple weeks once I bought a broken Windy 29.  The Windy is now operational so I'll get back to the Astro.  I plan to make it a dedicated Dreamcast cab (and free up my Exceleena for real PCBs).   I'm not much into mame since I have original cabs or pcbs of the games I play most often.

[mattr]

They should be CHEAPER in Oz, it is a much shorter boat trip there than to the US. From what I here there is at least one Aussie operator who imports them by the container full just to pull the monitors out and then trashes the cabinets. Someone here picked up one or two of them from him.

Shipping from Japan and other countries to Australia is very expensive. We have lots and lots coming in but very little going back in return which inflates costs considerably.

www.highway.net.au are an importer/exporter. Astro City cabs start at $770 USD. I don't know if they include duty and tax in that cost but shipping from Sydney to other states is additional. They have a really nice blue Namco one. I believe it is the same as Mad Smurf's but that is $1200 USD.

I actually got my Astro City cab from 240 Amusements in Melbourne. So far service has been excellent but I'll hold final judgement until I receive the cab this week. 

Cheers,
Matt

[mattr]

I plan to make it a dedicated Dreamcast cab (and free up my Exceleena for real PCBs).   I'm not much into mame since I have original cabs or pcbs of the games I play most often.

My original plan was for a dedicated mame cabinet but after seeing some of the shooters available on dreamcast i may need to reconsider.