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Havok:
Besides being evil hacking up a Defender cab, look at the control panel sizes. Defender has an extremely small and relatively thin panel - not much room for controls. You will have to pick which games you are planning to run in advance of designing your panel, and it will be quite limiting.
bigdog1977:

--- Quote from: Nemss316 on September 25, 2008, 05:12:10 pm ---I will be sure to post pics once I see them. I am excited to pick out my new cabinet, more than I was to pick out my new puppy I got a few weeks ago!

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Geeeez man what kinda dog did you get??? :o
Jack Burton:
Don't worry about which cab has a working game in it if you plan on running MAME, that is just extra cost that you don't need.  You can run Marvel Super Heroes 99.9% exactly the same in an emulator as you can on a board. 

So, get an empty cab if you can, it will cut down on costs, and if you are not comfortable with using an arcade monitor you will not have to worry about it.  You can just start from scratch using the wood cabinet as your base.  If you can get a bigger cabinet, like say a big Midway or Capcom cabinet, those are great for MAME and would be much better than the defender. 

BUT, if you just want to go the quicket and easiest route to a MAME cab, then pick up the defender and stick a J-Pac in it.  You'll be up and MAMEing within a day. 

And as long as you don't hack it up or do anything worse to it than has already been done, you be karmically OK with the Elder Classic Gaming Gods.  :)
Nemss316:
Thanks for all the input, I really appreciate it. I may be able to get to view the cabinets tonight, I'm waiting to hear back and see if he will be home later tonight.

I was doing some research on the JPac, and it sounds like a really nice alternative. One question though: I run the arcade controls to the JPac, from the Jpac to the PC, then run the monitor to the ArcadeVGA? This probably needs to be asked under another part of the forum, and if it does, please let me know.

I will be taking my camera w/ me, and will post some photos of the cabinets, to get everyones input on which one might be the best alternative.

For my cabinet ideas, i'm not looking to add a trackball, just a typical SF2 setup with two player controls.

FYI: the puppy I got was a Golden Retriever. His name is Krypto!
Jack Burton:
The VGA cable will go from the AVGA to the the VGA port on the J-pac, you won't have to disconnect anything from the monitor in the cabinet. 

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