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Street Fighter 4 conversion
Namco:
Capcom just came out with this new game called Street Fighter IV. I got the flyer a couple weeks ago and it looked pretty good. The Street Fighter II machine on my route hasn't been getting the kind of traffic like it used to, so I've decided to convert it. I placed an order for the Street Fighter IV conversion kit last week and it just came in. Here's a picture of the first page of the instruction manual:
LOL, just kidding about the conversion and route thing, but I did pickup a copy of Street Fighter IV on Xbox 360 recently and am going to retrofit my SF2 cab to accommodate the Xbox. It's a Dynamo HS-1 based Street Fighter II cabinet running every imaginable version of Street Fighter under MAME. It has a computer monitor, genuine Happ Competition sticks and buttons, connected to a fast PC via a Ultimarc keyboard encoder. It’s powered by a powerstrip hacked with a 12v relay that turns on all the lights and monitor. Artwork, controls and play experience are 100% authentic to the real thing. I’ve been loving life since I built this thing last year. Original post here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=73101.0
But this year they came out with Street Fighter IV. The Xbox 360 version is out now, but the PC version isn’t out for another year. So this means I have to hack an Xbox 360 and get that badboy mounted into my arcade cabinet ASAP.
For this purpose, I picked up a pair of cheap Xbox controllers. These MadCatz arcade sticks ran me about $5 bucks each and are extremely easy to hack according to the detailed instructions and PCB pictures on slagcoin.com.
I have to hand it to those guys at slagcoin, they really know their stuff. I thank slagcoin.com for helping me pick this stick and get motivated to do this mod. http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick.html
Namco:
I thought about using another enclosure like the one I used for my Ultimarc encoder, but realized that I can’t find one big enough and it’s a waste of money. The authentic arcade way to go would be to mount the parts on a piece of wood and mount that on the wall of the cab so that’s what I decided to do.
The solder pads are pre-drilled on this thing and it was extremely easy to solder some solid core wire through the signal side of each button.
The hard part was the A button which did not have a hole and there was a chip on the underside preventing me from drilling one. So predictably I dropped a huge blob of solder bridging both sides of the A button. I tried to scrape it off, and the entire goddam metal surface of the damn button came off with it.
Luckily the left joystick had a button on the top of it that also triggered the A button, so I used the signal from that to wire up the A button.
The other hard part was the big solder pads for the shoulder bumpers. For some reason my iron just could not melt them. On my next mod, I will do the shoulder buttons FIRST so I can get as much of the iron on those pads.
foleykoontz:
How the hell did you find not one, but two of those sticks for $5? I can't find those anywhere and eBay has them for over 20. I hacked one of the Gamestop controllers for my dual X-arcade stick but I still need to do one more so it can be two player.
Namco:
--- Quote from: foleykoontz on March 03, 2009, 04:10:15 am ---How the hell did you find not one, but two of those sticks for $5? I can't find those anywhere and eBay has them for over 20. I hacked one of the Gamestop controllers for my dual X-arcade stick but I still need to do one more so it can be two player.
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I saw them on clearance at Fry's Electronics in the Friday, October 31st ad where I picked up two just for this purpose. I mean for $4.99, I just couldn't pass them up. At the time I was going to use them for HD Remix.
Now I need two more to make some custom sticks so I can play it in the living room! ;D
Octo:
A new arcade opened up here in Austin not too long ago. I was less than impressed by their selection of games (and the fact they force you to use $1 tokens) except they had the Japanese version of SF4. It's so much better in an arcade than on the damned 360! :burgerking:
Oh and the only other saving grace was they had Mr. Driller....
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