Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Street Fighter 2 Resto!
MK3FAN:
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--- Quote from: MK3FAN on November 05, 2007, 07:25:57 pm ---Well gang, just got my new 25" monitor installed, hooked up, and all ready to go.
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Where did you get your monitor and how much was it?
Also, How are you going to fix that CP. That's one unique button layout!
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I got the monitor on Ebay. I snagged it for only $165. $235 with shipping. It was quite the deal. I got lucky. As far as the control panel goes, I am going to lay a thin piece of sheetmetal over the top that I will cut to fit and drill new holes. The new overlay coupled with the new plexiglass peice that will have to be cut also will hide the fact that there is a slight "raise" to the panel. Yeah, as soon as I saw that layout, I knew I had my work "cut out" for me.
MaximRecoil:
If you are planning to do a nice restoration you might consider making it into an SFII:CE machine. SFII:WW like you have was only sold as a kit, and intended for 19" monitor cabinets. Most of them ended up in 19" Dynamo HS-1 cabinets (e.g. Ikari Warriors cabinets). That's why your SFII bezel has been cut out larger in the middle to fit a 25" monitor, because there is no such thing as a 25" SFII:WW bezel.
Now SFII:CE did come as a dedicated machine, and it came in 25" Dynamo HS-5 cabinets like you have, so all the original artwork would be a perfect fit for your machine...
That's assuming that your cabinet is actually a 25" HS-5 and not an HS-1 or HS-2 that has been retrofitted with a 25" monitor (I've seen that done before). How wide is your control panel? If it is 23 5/8" with the total width of the cabinet being 25 7/16", then you have an HS-2 that originally came with a 19" monitor (HS-1's and HS-2's are both 19" monitor cabinets and identical looking from the outside, but the HS-2 had the slide-out board behind the CP for the boardset and power supply, while the HS-1 didn't).
MK3FAN:
--- Quote from: MaximRecoil on November 07, 2007, 03:35:15 pm ---If you are planning to do a nice restoration you might consider making it into an SFII:CE machine. SFII:WW like you have was only sold as a kit, and intended for 19" monitor cabinets. Most of them ended up in 19" Dynamo HS-1 cabinets (e.g. Ikari Warriors cabinets). That's why your SFII bezel has been cut out larger in the middle to fit a 25" monitor, because there is no such thing as a 25" SFII:WW bezel.
Now SFII:CE did come as a dedicated machine, and it came in 25" Dynamo HS-5 cabinets like you have, so all the original artwork would be a perfect fit for your machine...
That's assuming that your cabinet is actually a 25" HS-5 and not an HS-1 or HS-2 that has been retrofitted with a 25" monitor (I've seen that done before). How wide is your control panel? If it is 23 5/8" with the total width of the cabinet being 25 7/16", then you have an HS-2 that originally came with a 19" monitor (HS-1's and HS-2's are both 19" monitor cabinets and identical looking from the outside, but the HS-2 had the slide-out board behind the CP for the boardset and power supply, while the HS-1 didn't).
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Thanks for the info! I don't know much about the history of Street Fighter. I am a Mortal Kombat guy. And in all honesty, my frind is going to buy this machine from me when I get done restoring it, and he is the type of person who has no clue about any of the technical stuff. He just wants a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine.
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: MK3FAN on November 07, 2007, 03:48:55 pm ---Thanks for the info! I don't know much about the history of Street Fighter. I am a Mortal Kombat guy. And in all honesty, my frind is going to buy this machine from me when I get done restoring it, and he is the type of person who has no clue about any of the technical stuff. He just wants a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine.
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Yeah, I'm guessing that your cabinet is a 19" HS-2 which has been retrofitted with a 25" monitor. You can find out for sure by measuring the width of the cabinet and/or the control panel. The reason I think it is an HS-2 rather than an HS-5 is because the marquee and bezel, which are both intended for the narrower HS-1 and HS-2 cabinets, seem to fit your cabinet's width perfectly. If that was an actual HS-5, the bezel and marquee would be too narrow for the cabinet, and there would be sizeable gaps showing on either side.
The machine I learned to play SFII on in the arcade back in '91 was just like that, i.e., a 19" Dynamo that had been modified to accept a 25" monitor.
knave:
If the HS-5 was the 25" cab with a streight back what is the designation of the 25" z-back cabinet that also has a 25 3/4" CP?
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