Warning: converted classic inside.

[Q*Bert_OP]

Fatality:

it's a converted coctail Joust!

[Effayy]

Fatality:

it's a converted coctail Joust!

While I must say "boo" to the conversion of a classic cab like that, I must also say that it looks to be quite a sexy design for a 2-player fighter cab. 

..... and "Fatality" is the name for the MK-themed cabinet I'm currently working on, too.

...so...uhh... dibs! 

- FA

[pointdablame]

I don't like that they did that, but it does look pretty cool.

[M3talhead]

I'd have to say this....

As long as the cab can be "converted back" using original hardware, cool. If there were major changes made to the CP, monitor bracketing, or any other major original piece, I say boo simply becaue its a rare and unusual cocktail.


Something else you have to think about: Keeping an all original cab is difficult for many people because of budget/original parts constraints. I for example have taken a small amount of heat from certain members in this communiy for MAMEing a gutted, converted Gauntlet cab that had barney-purple laminate sides and a hack-job CP.

[walls83]

atleast they could have done the correct button layout for Mortal Kombat

[Q*Bert_OP]

Is it me or does this look like a butchered pacman cab with a large panel slapped on?

[Level42]

People should be hanged for this butchering 

Seriously: YUGH !!!!!!

[Q*Bert_OP]

People should be hanged for this butchering

[Howard_Casto]

Well the worst thing about this is that with this being a horizonal, non flipping cocktail, it takes up exactly as much floor space as a standard mk cabinet only now players will get neck strain from looking down and a joust was killed in the process.  Because of the horizontal layout and the contol panel positioning, this conversion has the ironic limitation of not being able to play games in cocktail mode.  Isn't that the whole reason for having a cocktail cab? 

If I see a bad conversion I can sometimes take comfort in that the conversion was actually a useful one.  In this case the only excuse I could possibly see is the builder being too lazy to build it from scratch.  Also there's the whole "mame cabs should be fairly generic so they can play as many games as possible"  argument.

[Lilwolf]

I wouldn't say the style is the worse thing.

They did take a cab worth $500 and removed all real value. 

They took a very rare cab to replace one of the more common ones.

They took a classic and put a fighter cab. 

But as for usefullness.... My wife would let me have that upstairs.  No standups on the 1st floor.  But she said I could probably bring a cute cocktail up.  And that one would fit against the wall well.  So for me, I could see it being useful... in a please the wife while letting me get my arcade fix without having to go into the basement. 

I miss having my arcade upstairs... sigh...

[Effayy]

Before that pic, I never saw what a Joust cocktail looked like before, and the design got the gears running and I thought up a few good ideas for a future project. (I know, I could have had the same ideas without need for the MK conversion, I'm not arguing that at all)...

The idea I had involves a sit-down cab with the offset CPs like that, but with a housing that would let the monitor sit much like an upright.  The bottom of the monitor would rest just underneath the surface of the unit, so the center of the screen is eye-level.  The back of the unit could come to a 90 degree angle (meeting at the center of the monitor, so it would fit really well in the corner of a living room (which I bet my better half would still object to).

Anyway, at the rate I'm building my current cabinet, I'd only get around to building this one in... ooh.... June 2030.

- FA