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Title: Thinking about picking up an Astro Fighter cocktail
Post by: Jack Burton on December 04, 2007, 05:42:11 pm

Got an Astro Fighter near me going for cheap and a Sony PVM 11" monitor laying around.  Do you think it wouldn't be very hard to replace the monitor and add new controls that are of a more standard type?

Or would it be mutilating a classic and I should just keep it as is?

What do you guys think?

Oh, here's the game for reference"

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=6947

Title: Re: Thinking about picking up an Astro Fighter cocktail
Post by: NoOne=NBA= on December 04, 2007, 07:17:11 pm

It probably wouldn't be too hard, but I'm not a big fan of school desk cocktails.
I much prefer the cocktails that have a larger screen, with CPs at the ends, like a Midway cabinet.

Title: Re: Thinking about picking up an Astro Fighter cocktail
Post by: tommy on December 04, 2007, 10:37:54 pm

I'm not a fan of cocktails at all. You may be better off getting a full size arcade cab and not limit yourself to a cocktail with no room for improvement control wise, if you ever decided to Mame it or turn it into something else you have a very limited space to do anything.

On the other hand, if you know what you want and this cocktail is it, just go for it.

Title: Re: Thinking about picking up an Astro Fighter cocktail
Post by: Jack Burton on December 04, 2007, 11:40:18 pm

Well, I already have a MAME cabinet built, so I was more thinking of making this into a dedicated cab with a pcb inside.  Maybe some very nice oldschool shooter that will still be able to use the Astro Fighter controls?

Title: Re: Thinking about picking up an Astro Fighter cocktail
Post by: danny_galaga on December 05, 2007, 04:15:45 am

i'd say if you were to mame it, only install two way games with one or maybe two buttons. the angle on those cps are a bit of a pain and 4 or 8 way would be awful...