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RayB:
You could gut that cab and rent it out as a room!

traknfieldSUPAstar:
nice find! my kids love that game. its one of the reasons why I still won a 4-player jamma version ;D

DeLuSioNal29:

--- Quote from: cmoses on February 04, 2009, 09:50:22 am ---I have a couple of questions, not really familiar with the game or the cabinet. Why is one of the monitors mounted down below and projected onto a mirror? I am sure there is plenty of room in there to have two monitors normally mounted. Also with the two outside players I guess #1 and #6, are their joysticks mounted so that towards the monitor is up? At such an extreme angle I would think that would be difficult.

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I had thought the same thing, until I took another look at it in person and then it made sense. If you were to have two monitors normally mounted, then you would see the borders of the monitors in between. They would not be "seamless". However, by mirroring one from the bottom (the one on the left is on the bottom facing up towards the mirror) and by having the monitor on the right normally mounted [it can be seen through a one way mirror (very high tech for it's time)], that allows the images to "overlap" when you look at it head on so that it appears as one wide image. Problem solved.

I'm not quite sure about the joystick question, as it's been ages since I played this game in the arcades. However, I would imagine that to move the character up, you would move the joystick towards the screen. It seems the most natural.

SuperGunGuru:

--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on February 05, 2009, 12:15:19 am ---
I had thought the same thing, until I took another look at it in person and then it made sense. If you were to have two monitors normally mounted, then you would see the borders of the monitors in between. They would not be "seamless". However, by mirroring one from the bottom (the one on the left is on the bottom facing up towards the mirror) and by having the monitor on the right normally mounted [it can be seen through a one way mirror (very high tech for it's time)], that allows the images to "overlap" when you look at it head on so that it appears as one wide image. Problem solved.

I'm not quite sure about the joystick question, as it's been ages since I played this game in the arcades. However, I would imagine that to more the character up, you would move the joystick towards the screen. It seems the most natural.

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Congrats on the purchase! The joysticks on the extreme ends of the control panel are still oriented with up being towards the monitor so yes it is a bit awkward when playing as Dazler or Cyclops, especially with 6 people playing. I'm glad to see that you plan to keep it original, but I'm almost always much more in favor of preservation, especially when a game is nearly complete or working. So do you get anything on the screen at all? The game normally boots up with a rom check, but if the screens are only showing raster, I would meter the power supply voltage to see if it's working or not. You can grab drop in replacements for about 50 bucks on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/POWER-SUPPLY-150-FOR-KONAMI-AND-NEO-GEO-SNK-GAMES_W0QQitemZ120369566688QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item120369566688&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14

Edit: I can't resist sharing a picture of my 6 player X-Men. I got mine for 175 from a local arcade before they closed down. It was a nightmare to move it downstairs, but I think the stairway looks better with that opened up wall. ;D

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: SuperGunGuru on February 07, 2009, 12:27:12 pm --- It was a nightmare to move it downstairs, but I think the stairway looks better with that opened up wall. ;D

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I have a few of those ...

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