Best Cabinet for Jamma Switching?

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I'm thinking of picking up a cabinet for switching random jamma boards around. What cabinets are known for ease of switching? I've read that the Taito cabinet that Double Dragon came in is really nice. Supposedly it has a drawer on the front so you don't even need to pull it away from the wall.
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Are there any other cabinets that have easy access to the PCB, or any other features that make them nice to use as a jamma cabinet?
 
Lots of the Dynamo cabinets have a slide out drawer. You just open the control panel and the whole thing slides back a couple of feet. I can switch boards in mine in just a couple of minutes.

If you're looking for a project game, the cheapest of the cheap games are usually in these cabinets. I got two nice Dynamo's, one dead but complete Tekken 3 for 50 bucks and one working and complete with a Soul Edge board for $125. Good luck!
 
yea my dynamo is each, the whole control panel lifts up and theres a shelf attached to it, which is where the boards are mounted
 
The Double Dragon cab is an excellent cab because you can rotate the monitor without too much trouble.

Are you saying that the monitor can easily change from vertical to horizontal? That's pretty cool! Do you just pull the monitor out and flip?
 
taito double dragon is a nice cab with front drawer access and an easy to rotate monitor..

the minus are. control panel is made out of cheap wood. The drawer gets messed up easy and you have a hard time closing or you have to disable the saftey interlock.

The dynamo and 3koam cabs are good. you can rotate the 25" monitor and have front access, but the boards mount at 45 degrees, so they need to be secured..

I prefer the atari drawer cabinets like klax or if you can find one dedicated relief pitcher. They are the smallest 25" cab you will find. they have flat front drawer access(control panel slides out). the monitor can be rotated. If you want to go 3 or 4 player wide, you can track down a rampart or pitfighter..

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Another vote for the Double Dragon cab. It does have a cheap wood cp was someone said, but overall definitely an easily switchable jamma cab.
 
Another vote for the Double Dragon cab. It does have a cheap wood cp was someone said, but overall definitely an easily switchable jamma cab.

Instead of calling the control panel "cheap", I'd call it "simple". The benefit is that it's very easy to fabricate new control panels for this cabinet.

I used to have two Double Dragon cabs for playing JAMMA games. I had made a couple different control panels that I could swap in and out. (ls-30, street fighter layout, etc)

The front opening drawer is very handy.
 
Lots of the Dynamo cabinets have a slide out drawer. You just open the control panel and the whole thing slides back a couple of feet. I can switch boards in mine in just a couple of minutes.

Another vote for Dynamo w/ slide out drawer- easy as pie.
 
Berzerk cabs also have a nice side door on the front with a shelf on ball bearing sliders so you can slide it out the front. very neat setup.
 
Looks like the Taito is the front runner so far. I forgot to mention the ease of monitor flipping in my original post. Plus the side art is kind of cool too.

Are there any other games that came with the Taito cabinet or just Double Dragon? Are they pretty easy to find?
 
Looks like the Taito is the front runner so far. I forgot to mention the ease of monitor flipping in my original post. Plus the side art is kind of cool too.

Are there any other games that came with the Taito cabinet or just Double Dragon? Are they pretty easy to find?

Monitor flipping is just as easy in the Dynamo cabs. Plus, you'll have an easier time finding one of these cabs. Here's an HS-2:

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If you can't locate a Double Dragon, another option is Stern's "slim-line" cabinet. It was used for games like Tutankham, Minefield, and Pooyan, and also has a drawer below the coin door for the PCB, harness, fuses, and power supply which pulls out in the front.

Kyle :cool:
 
That's pretty awesome!

Question (b/c I've never switched out Jamma boards in a cab before): Do the buttons and joystick automatically map to whatever board gets replaced, or do you have to mess with re-attaching wires and such?
 
Ok, so I gather that there are a few different types of Dynamo cabs. Is there a good resource to read about each one, maybe with pictures?
 
Monitor flipping is just as easy in the Dynamo cabs. Plus, you'll have an easier time finding one of these cabs. Here's an HS-2:

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Who says? I've *never* seen one of those for sale in my area. Ever. I have seen at least 2 Double Dragon cabs a year pop up however. "you'll have an easier time finding one of these cabs" he says. I wonder about you and your 'facts' sometimes.
 
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