Advice - Building Fighter Cab to Sell

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Need advice for building a fighter cab to sell.

Its an NBA Jam cab that was converted , painted black , and has a hacked CP , so I cut a new piece of wood for the CP and starting fresh .

1. PCB Board - Pandora's Box ? Is that the best , which number , 3 or 4 ?

2. Marquee - what would you use , original SF2 marquee ?

3. CP Overlay and button layout - This lightning overlay was recommended , http://www.gameongrafix.com/control-panels/blue-lightning-control-panel

4. Side Art - don't bother ?

5. Joysticks and buttons - Which ones are good for fighters ?
 
In my experience, it's gonna be hard making a profit. Especially if you sell on Craigslist....I'd go as cheap as you can and not spend a lot on making a quality build. In the end, most people aren't interested in quality.
 
You are asking a preservation group for advice on creating a multi cab for profit. Personally I don't care - but plenty of people here will get out pitchforks and torches. :)

For what it is worth - unless you have a buyer already you will likely make more money fixing it up to be NBA Jam than you will a fighter cab with an emulation board. Nice NBA Jams go for 600-900 all day long.
 
Need advice for building a fighter cab to sell.

Its an NBA Jam cab that was converted , painted black , and has a hacked CP , so I cut a new piece of wood for the CP and starting fresh .

1. PCB Board - Pandora's Box ? Is that the best , which number , 3 or 4 ?

2. Marquee - what would you use , original SF2 marquee ?

3. CP Overlay and button layout - This lightning overlay was recommended , http://www.gameongrafix.com/control-panels/blue-lightning-control-panel

4. Side Art - don't bother ?

5. Joysticks and buttons - Which ones are good for fighters ?

I think you are looking for arcadecontrols.com. The folks there are right up your alley.
 
You are asking a preservation group for advice on creating a multi cab for profit. Personally I don't care - but plenty of people here will get out pitchforks and torches. :)

For what it is worth - unless you have a buyer already you will likely make more money fixing it up to be NBA Jam than you will a fighter cab with an emulation board. Nice NBA Jams go for 600-900 all day long.

except me...
I don't own a pitchfork .

You can just make a generic marquee with photoshop 4 or something
and size it to what you need, put it on a flash drive and take a trip to staples.
have them print you out one and sandwich it between some plexi.

Sticks... rob an old control panel or pick up one set of red buttons and one set of blue.
match the sticks to those.

my buddy bought a board from holland computers for an empty dynamo he has, not sure
what he got but he plays it alot.. its not very CRT friendly for some reason.
 
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