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Several months ago I bought an Altered Beast in a Joust cabinet from a junk hauler. They pulled it out of someone's basement where it had clearly encountered some water. The board and monitor worked, so that was a big plus. It even still had sound, so the suicide battery was OK. It had the original K4900 monitor that looked like it had probably never been touched.
Aside from the front panel being swollen like a sponge, it had been a pretty sloppy conversion back in the day. The side art was installed at different angles on each side and buttons were not in consistent positions for the two players. It had the wrong joysticks and the sticks used did not have long enough shafts for the wooden panel. The start buttons weren't centered on the CP… pretty ugly overall.
I know most here would probably prefer to restore this machine to a Joust and move the AB to a generic cab. I would have been happy to do that — I even posted a "For Trade" thread to see if someone with an empty Dynamo wanted to trade cabs, but no takers. So I'm moving forward with this cab.
Aside from the front panel being swollen like a sponge, it had been a pretty sloppy conversion back in the day. The side art was installed at different angles on each side and buttons were not in consistent positions for the two players. It had the wrong joysticks and the sticks used did not have long enough shafts for the wooden panel. The start buttons weren't centered on the CP… pretty ugly overall.
I know most here would probably prefer to restore this machine to a Joust and move the AB to a generic cab. I would have been happy to do that — I even posted a "For Trade" thread to see if someone with an empty Dynamo wanted to trade cabs, but no takers. So I'm moving forward with this cab.
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