Street Fighter 1 or Golden Tee 98 Cab?

[scrapple]

Both I can get fully working for about $500 or so.
Which one would you recommend for a mame cab with a 4 player control panel? Also, would it be possible to keep the unit working, and also have a switch that would enable my pc as well?

I cant seem to find info on the monitor sizes of these 2.

[TelcoLou]

They both work fully? Errr, "mame-ing" a fully-working cab is generally looked down upon over here 

IMHO, it's not very economical either; you still have to install/make/buy a 4-player CP, and install a PC.

[fixedpigs]

does the street fighter have the pneumatic buttons...?

[johnperkins21]

does the street fighter have the pneumatic buttons...?

He said it was fully working, so I'm guessing no. 

[scrapple]

They both work fully? Errr, "mame-ing" a fully-working cab is generally looked down upon over here 

IMHO, it's not very economical either; you still have to install/make/buy a 4-player CP, and install a PC.

didnt think about that.. i see your point...
im not sure on the buttons..  why do you ask?

[somunny]

I believe the SF1 with the pneumatic buttons is a rare bird.

[RoninEditor]

Yeah, definitely don't gut the SF1 cab, that's a classic... Golden Tee 98 somewhat too, but it wouldn't be as much of 'crime', haha. 

I'm telling you, just get a good tube tv on Craigslist for $50, hit up DiveMaster for all your parts (he'll save you an a$$load compared to buying direct, literally saved me about $200), and get some fiberboard.  I was gonna cheat, I bought a pre-gutted cab but when I got there to pick it up, aside from it not fitting in my SUV, I really got a little 'weird' about it, almost sad (as pathetic as it sounds) that I wasn't going to at least try.

It's been so much fun so far figuring all of this out and in the end, I'll better know the in's and out's of the process and all that.  You can do it cheap for about the same price you'd buy an original cab for and hold your head high knowing that you created the masterpiece that you get to game on.

Still, pick up one of the original cabs to put next to your Mame cab, but still, don't cheat yourself out of the experience.

[paigeoliver]

Those prices are TOO HIGH, you are dealing with someone who is selling way over market price. Buy from someone else. You can easily pick up something suitable for half that price. I ebay'd a very clean Golden Tee '99 like 3 years ago and only got like $250 for it.

The GT 98' could possibly be worth that if it was in a good clean cabinet with a big monitor, but chances are high that a 98' board these days is in an old 19" conversion cabinet.

SF 1 in conversion form is basically junk, and the dedicated one isn't for maming, and it is also pretty much junk too, SF 2 was the good one.

[Bluedeath]

does the street fighter have the pneumatic buttons...?

He said it was fully working, so I'm guessing no. 

Did this thin nreally existed? i taught that pneumatic buttos SF was a urban legend!

[u_rebelscum]

does the street fighter have the pneumatic buttons...?

Did this thin nreally existed? i taught that pneumatic buttos SF was a urban legend!

I saw one at an arcade near the university when it came out.  Didn't get to play it, though.  

First time it was totally crowded around with college students who were pounding the huge buttons.  I was young enough (I was 13-14) to be intimidated by them.  It had to have been new because the button covers were in good condition.  
The next time I went there, about 1 of 2 weeks later IIRC, the button covers were torn, but otherwise just as crowded. 
The time after that, I don't remember how much later, the cab was sitting in the corner, not working, no sign of the button covers at all.  There was no crowd, so I did get to press the buttons.

[padstack]

definitely real.  I have very much the same experience rebelscum had.  It would be cool to find one.  Cool to rebuild one too, but it would take a LOT of work and someone with much more knowledge in pneumatics and electronics than I.

[johnperkins21]

does the street fighter have the pneumatic buttons...?

He said it was fully working, so I'm guessing no. 

Did this thin nreally existed? i taught that pneumatic buttos SF was a urban legend!

Certainly did. I've played one. It wasn't much fun because it was so difficult to get the buttons to work properly, and they had been abused. The machine was in a GolfLand in Garden Grove, California back in the early 90s.