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briktop11b:
    Im building a new cabinet. The local arcade has a tekken 5 and i really like the game and the cabinet its in. So im gonna build a cabinet based on it. I have a ps2 with tekken 5 and a dreamcast with marvel vs capcom 2. Im torn between which game to use because i just want to make it a dedicated cabinet. The cool thing about tekken 5 on ps2 is it offers 16:9 progressive scan. Also what im thinking about is lasting power. Which one is gonna last longer before having problems,the ps2 or the dreamcast, because i don't want to be replacing it in a year or two. Well i would like to hear you guys opinion on this one. Im going to take a lot of pics during the build process since i havnt seen a cab like this built yet. This should be interesting.

here is the cabinet

Twin-X:
The ps2 is still in production and the dreamcast is not.

So the ps2 is longer lasting.

briktop11b:
I dint necessarily mean which one is gonna be developed and produced the longest. That is obvious. What i am referring to is the durability of the console itself. Saying that if i have a ps2 that is in equal shape as the dreamcast which one is gonna bite the dust first.

briktop11b:
  Made my decision.I'm gonna use tekken 5. The reason why is it was made for this style of cab, it was tekken 1,2,3 and 5 on one disc, i don't want to sound shallow but i need a game in my collection that was some graphical horsepower and this will work nicely, i already have MvC 2 on nulldc and like it better because the music just plain sux on the original, and i just like tekken. Now i have looked on the internet and cant seem to find any artwork for the cabinet. I can just go to my local arcade and take photos of the artwork and clean it up for mamemarquees to print but if anybody out there happens to have the artwork i would appreciate it if i could use it. Also, does anybody know what type of joysticks and buttons the arcade uses.The buttons feel awesome and they are not as loud as my other pushbuttons in my cabinets. I'm gonna try to start this in the next few weeks. Any diminsions available for this cabinet? I'm gonna try to stay as true to the original cab as i can. One more thing I'm gonna use a standard 4:3 LCD because that is what the real arcade uses and also the 16:9 is not true 16:9 it just crops the top and bottom a bit so it fills the screen, and since the other tekken games are included i would just rather play them all on 4:3 rather that tekken five on 16:9 and the rest on 4:3.

TOK:
I like the way those cabinets lay back, but they have kind of an IKEA look to them. I liked this cab, which has a similar profile but doesn't look quite as primitive. I'm pretty sure this was posted here, but I don't remember by who. I just liked the shape so I saved the pics for reference. This is also a bit easier to build for a DIY'r, since you can use wood instead of the metal beams on the one you posted. Sorry, but most of the images were small.

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