MVS-4 25 Cabinet Restoration job

[jtslade]

OK I am brand new to this site and I wanted to say hello. I am starting my 1st arcade restoration project and it is with a Neo Geo MVS-4 25 cab.

This will eventually be a MAME cab but don't flame me just yet, I am restoring this NEO GEO MVS to look exactly as it did in its glory days before some a-hole turned it into a lame special forces elite  lightgun game. SO that being said I would appreciate any help that anyone has.

I want to try and make this thing as authentic as possible with certain limitations.

- I am not drilling holes to suit a street-fighter setup, 4 buttons per player is fine by me. I want this thing to be identical to the way it looked originally.

- I live in Germany and getting a wells garner (Zenith original) monitor shipped is pretty much not possible so I am going to install a 25 " TV tube.

I have  a 1.7 P4 with a geforce 5200 AGP and  1.5gb of ram.  Lots of HD.

- I need any advice on the specifics of TV mounting, which buttons and joysticks are authentic.  Repainting, mounting, electronic wiring.

- Is a Arcade VGA worth it for Svideo output to a TV.

- I will be needing to get a new control panel layout that matches the original.

-  I am also trying to find credit LED's and how to interface them with MAME.

- Don't worry I will use the search function and study each step before I do anything (ie discharge a TV) but I am just saying hello and if you have any words of wisdom let me know.

_ I have attached pics of the cab. Brace yourself for what some loser did to this once beautiful MVS cab. Other than that it is in good shape.


-Don't worry I make it look the way it should. NEO FO' Life
















This is the hole they made for the lightgun, would a  big button mapped to the ESCAPE key be the best? Any thoughts?


This is what it will look like when I am done with it. I just need some help.


I  like the color of the competition's here but are they authentic, this is a pic of my friends real MVS-4 25"

[Axe]

WOW!

That Neo cab has certainly seen better days, but it sounds like it is in good hands

Most of the help you will need is already peppered around the site...I could have sworn i saw a couple of MCS restorations last week...

Tell us your specific questions and we'll do our best!

Welcome

[jtslade]

Since I am putting a yet to be bought TV in my MVS Mame cab. I needed some help on which size TV is best.

I have a hitachi 25" with Svideo but some have said to use a TV with component which is better.

1. I know that features that are sought after for televisions are
   - Svideo or Component
   - resume/save settings and input after power off


The model name listed on the chasis is a

Wells Gardner 25K7193

Is the diagonal size for this 27" or 25"

- Do I need to buy/create a chasis for this, I also noticed that there is a bezel (wood painted black?) around the front of the monitor on the restored MVS machine is this available anywhere?

Thank you,

[jtslade]

all the pictures together . 

nice German Spyhunter pinball too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30329886@N08/

[KDOG]

If you going to do svideo there is no need for the avga just get a cheep video card with svid out. The tv will need to be decased to fit.  As for the buttons and joysticks, happ concave buttons and either happ super or comp joysticks .

Also look in the resoration board for more help with the cab. Here Restorations

[jtslade]

Sorry to did up old thread but I finally installed the power supply box to fill the hole on the back of the neo geo. Gives it a cleaner look and I installed a 12v fan to bring in cool air..



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[jtslade]

Updated cab front



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[jtslade]

25" bezel installed.. Ty twistedquarter.com


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[keilmillerjr]

Amazing transformation! Do you have it running yet? I need to order one of those bezels for my mvs.

[Malenko]

I remember this cab! Glad to see you're still around

[jtslade]

Yes it is running, when I moved from Germany to south Florida the decased tv in it died so I replaced it with a nanano 25in arcade crt and then installed xp 64 bit. There is an arcade vga 3000  in there now but I think I want to go with a bios modded ATI card in the near future


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