can you buy the metal control panel templates that fit most cabinets?

[sporkjuice]

When converting a cabinet to mame, i got some old Commando cabinet that has a fairly bizzare cp layout. Can i just get a new metal hinged cp thing that is a street fighter layout instead from some website?

[rampy]

When converting a cabinet to mame, i got some old Commando cabinet that has a fairly bizzare cp layout. Can i just get a new metal hinged cp thing that is a street fighter layout instead from some website?

ebay, perhaps? of course I'm not sure whether a SFII style layout would fit in a commando cab...   you could also go to a local metal shop and hve em bend and drill out a new one for you... or your could make a replacement outa wood ...

just a thought...

rampy

[menace]

I ended up covering mine with thin gauge sheet metal like they use for furnace duct (alot easier than it sounds with a good pair of tin snips) and then redrilling my own holes.  from the back it looks like swiss cheese but from the front it looks just fine.  The old metal helps reinforce the new thinner metal and when the buttons are installed it adheres the thinner metal to the control panel underneath.  If you intend on covering it with artwork (which you will likely) you won't even know there is any extra layer of steel there.

Of course if you have ALOT of holes in the old control panel you might not get the support you need from the sheet metal layer.

[Howard_Casto]

When converting a cabinet to mame, i got some old Commando cabinet that has a fairly bizzare cp layout. Can i just get a new metal hinged cp thing that is a street fighter layout instead from some website?

ebay, perhaps? of course I'm not sure whether a SFII style layout would fit in a commando cab...   you could also go to a local metal shop and hve em bend and drill out a new one for you... or your could make a replacement outa wood ...

just a thought...

rampy

Commando and sf2 had the exact same cp minus the button arrangments.  If you can find an old capcom cp from a cps1 (not cps2) system then it will fit quite nicely.  That is assuming you have a generic dynamo cab of course.  

[lightspeed]

I have a control panel for sale for a Dynamo HS-5 cabinet, which was originally a SF2 machine.   See:  http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=4177  


for details (its up to you to make sure this will fit, tho, if youre interested)

[Howard_Casto]

That was from a ssf2 machine or a bad conversion.  "officially" at least Capcom never used a dynamo cab with a wooden cp except on their larger showcase models.  Go to 3darcade.mameworld.net and look at the sf2 cab.  That's the metal control panel that they used on the cps1 models and I believe commando.  However, commando was also sold in kit form, in which case I refer you to the cps2 model, which would be the other most likely candidate.  At the time 95% of all 2 player cabinets used one of those two dynamo cabinets.  The cp you showed looked like it came off of the larger dynamo cabs that konami used for thier 4 player cabinets as well as other manufacturers that needed a big cp for whatever reason.   The original sf2 cp was tiny believe it or not.  They made it larger soon after and fitted it to another dynamo design.  


Btw I'm not an expert on this by any means so don't take what I say as gosphel, this is just stuff I learned doing research while making all of those cabinet models.    

(Hanho makes all the cabs my arse.  )

[Hellfromabove]

You could try http://www.gamedoc.com/. I remember when I first bought my buttons and sticks from them they asked if I needed it. Of course I went there myself in person. I think they charge $90 for them the last time I heard. Thanx.

-See Ya!!!

[lightspeed]

Howard,

The Street Fighter II cabinet listed at the link looks to be the exact design as my Champion Edition cabinet, which does indeed have a metal 2 player "smaller" control panel.   My cabinet is an Dynamo HS-2.

I acquired the retro-fit panel from a distributor.   It is designed to fit an HS-5 cabinet to adapt it to 4 players and is indeed wooden.   Now, I've don't particularly know which games, if any, were originally distributed in an HS-5, but from what I understand, they are very similar to the HS-2s.  For that reason, I bought the panel in the hopes that it would fit my cabinet - the mounts are actually the same, and  it would if I took a hacksaw to it, but I'm trying to sell it unused and unhurt instead