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Cheapest + Best Way To Re-Create Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike... In A Cabinet?
shodokan123:
you are forgetting ps2 and x-box...
and my "tude" is because the DC version is GARBAGE. 50% of the links dont work, the game is slowed down from the arcade version, parry timing is 1 second difference... all stuff that DRASTICALLY effects competative play.
Mark70:
It depends on how "factory original" you want to be.
The cheapest way to get your own upright cabinet is:
-buy a used cabinet from a local seller. Get as many working parts on it as you can. In my area you can get a decent fully working cab with a crappy title in it for CAN$300. Expect to pay more if you you're looking for a specific cab which is in demand.
-Once you have a mostly working cab you only then have to pay for replacement parts which should be less than a budget for all new parts.
-stick an old 1gig processor in it. That old computer sitting around your house, and run mame on it.
I built from scratch and paid more in materials for my cabinet, less controls, than I would have for a used working cabinet, which I would have had to drive 5 hours with it hanging out the back of my blazer. I didn't want to drive but it about doubled the project cost. I'm going to sit down and do the accounting after (and hide the results from my wife).
Pick up your local yellow pages. There IS a coin op company in your town... somewhere. Go in person. Being there in person commands much more service than callling. I got my coin door free by going in person to the local coin op. They had a machine out back going to the dump.
shodokan123:
problem is due to the fact that it wont fit in through the doors of my house if it a whole cab. It must be in pieces if i want any hope of putting it in my house lol.
We don't have a finished garage neither so i can't just put it in there. There is also no access to my basement from the outside either.
There is a local arcade seller, but the problem with that is i set to buy an actual 3s machine with him but it wouldnt fit in my house... so we're not exactly on good terms.
Mark70:
--- Quote from: shodokan123 on January 26, 2006, 04:31:33 pm ---problem is due to the fact that it wont fit in through the doors of my house if it a whole cab. It must be in pieces if i want any hope of putting it in my house lol.
We don't have a finished garage neither so i can't just put it in there. There is also no access to my basement from the outside either.
There is a local arcade seller, but the problem with that is i set to buy an actual 3s machine with him but it wouldnt fit in my house... so we're not exactly on good terms.
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You should be able to fit an arcde machine in most housed if they have any of:
-a full size refrigerator
-a full size washing machine
-a full size dryer
find these appliance in your house, measure them, and then you'll know how big of a cabinet you can buy. Never buy a cabinet without measuring it. Most control panels come off if they stick out past the sides of the cabinet like a Mortal Kombat cab.
shodokan123:
ok, thx for the info
but it will still be nearly impossible to fit it through a door and down the stairs with it's weight... and there are like 25 stairs