Any Wild Riders (Naomi 2) owners?

ConversusV

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I was planning to pick up a motorcycle cabinet before the year is over, to sit near my other Sega sit down racer (Lemans 24/Scud Race). It would have to be handlebar based, and not the lean-on kind like F&F Super Bikes or Road Burners. I'm voting between a Harley Davidson L.A. Riders and a (US sit down) Wild Riders. I have found a pair of two Harley Davidsons for sale on Marketplace not too far from me but the seat is beat up and the $900 for each cab is just little too steep for that condition. The Wild Riders I saw is a little further away, but in near immaculate condition and I've already got the Naomi 2 cart to boot.

Though Wild Riders is a very short game, it is a very fun game and has a lot of replay value with a 'daily' scoreboard, though Harley has a nice randomized route system where you go to different locations on each round, and if I really wanted to play my Harley Model 3 board in the cabinet, I could just build an adapter that connects the Naomi 2 PSU wiring to Model 3, then run RCA jacks to 4 pins, and build a harness that connects the Wild Riders pot/switch inputs direct to the Model 3 filter board, bypassing the I/O. I can compromise playing manual transmission on Harley as the Wildriders cab has no shifter like that game does, and I don't want to just mod the cabinet out and hack the handlebars or wiring.

I have compared the sizes of both games and it seems like the Wild Riders is significantly smaller in height and even width, but the seat on Wild Riders is a little longer than the harley. The room that my other cab is in has a 29" door and I was able to break that cab down by taking out the control panel, bezel, monitor, and all of the covers, since Lemans (Japan) is made of plastic and metal. AND taking the hinge off. The other two cabinets are both wooden, so transporting it is likely going to be harder.

Anyone own a Wild Riders? What is disassembly like? Does the seat come off? How do you remove the monitor? Give me some good tips. Because I know on Harley Davidson, the seat bolts to the cabinet with two nuts, and I feel like that would be a more difficult machine to move due to its height and absurd overhead arch.
Thanks y'all.
 
Decided on Wild Riders. The price was just too good for me to pass up on given the condition, and I've never played on an official cabinet with the push and pull controls! It is quite smaller than the Harley and I've been told it can go through a 29" doorway, especially with the monitor removed. Fingers crossed. I'll be picking it up in December.

There seems to be a lot of empty space in the cabinet for additional PCBs, and the back door opens with only a key which seems very convenient.

After install the Naomi 2, I'm planning to make the cabinet a multi-game machine with additional boards.
I plan to mount the Harley Davidson Model 3 Step 2 cage into the right (from front) side of the cabinet, and to do that I will theoretically need to do the following modifications:
- Power supply adapter from Sun PSU to Model 3
- VGA extension cable (Model 3 uses this also despite still having a 24khz signal)
- Two IDC male breakout boards (60 pin and 26 pin) that connect from the two JST RA to the various connectors on the Model 3 filter board, per schematics
- Connect RCA jacks to CN7 (4-pin JST NH) on Model 3 filter board

The caveat is that I can only either wire the two shifter inputs, or wire both view and music for the Push and Pull inputs. Unless I swap out the handlebar with a Harley one, which is the same handle, but I'm unsure if the bracket for the hoses is compatible with this cabinet. Either way I can sacrifice the shifter and play automatic.

As I said my intention is to not hack anything in this cab and keep all the original parts intact unless they are rendered a paperweight.

The Model 3 cages aren't the heaviest arcade boards I've owned, even when compared to a couple control panels I have, so hopefully the cage can hold up in the cabinet without the wood collapsing. Thoughts?
 
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