Final Fight Arcade Restore

architectofdoom

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Hi All,

For Christmas my wife purchased my favorite side scrolling beat em up. (Well she had a friend do the purchasing for us so it was a surprise for me!)

Turns out, what our friend got for me was a modded CPS2 version of the Final Fight Anniversary Edition. Most likely from a scammer on ebay :p

I got a supergun to test and it works like a charm.


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Luckily I was able to find a Final Fight cab for $100 from a local guy trying to unload. (I also grabbed X-men children of the atom and Sega Spiderman '91, both in working condition!)

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As you can see from the picture above I'm missing a monitor.

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Is this a standard size? Can I just measure it and find out if it's a 19"?

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The Jamma harness is intact and connected to all of the buttons.

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I believe the power supply is still there but I'm not entirely sure. I'm also a little unsure on which way my jamma harness plugs in and I don't want to fry my board the first time I go to plug it up.

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Looks like the speaker and marquee light are still there, so other than a monitor I'd just have to replace the bezel, marquee and other various art.

I've been searching for monitors, most posts here I see are for a chassis, which pardon my complete newness on this, but my understanding is that is just the electrical component and not the actual tube.


I've found a few online like this post on EBAY:
19" Wells Gardner 4600 later series Complete Working Arcade Monitor 4615 AW

Would this be essentially a plug and play fix? Seems a little pricey at $350, but I'll certainly pay that if its my best and/or only option.

I figure I will tackle the issue of a monitor first since that'll make the cab immediately playable.

I'd also like to figure out a way to work in third player, without too much of a visible change to the cab. There's not really room for a full third player set up, so I was thinking maybe I could do an undamned USB decoder and have third player plug in a control. Seems the decoders are out of stock all over the place so I'm not sure if that's a realistic path either.

Would love to hear any and all comments, suggestions etc.

Thanks for reading!
 
Where are you located? If in a big city you may be able to find a monitor locally on here. Try posting here https://forums.arcade-museum.com/forums/trading-videogame-wanted.12/

Was Final Fight three player? All the cabs I have seen are two player.
Final fight was not 3 player. Somehow my friend got me a modded version. Here's a link to the GitHub: Final Fight AE

I'll post in the wanted section once I figure out what exactly I'm wanting. Can someone verify that this cab would generally use a 19" monitor? Should I just measure it diagonally to see if it's a 19" hole? Is that how it's typically measured? Sorry just trying to ask my complete noob questions.

Thanks!
 
A 19 should fit fine. That metal frame may have to come out though.

May help to know what that cab started out as. It looks like it was converted to FF from something else. Are there any manufacture tags on the back or inside the back door?
 
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I'm in southeast Georgia, about an hour west from Savannah.

It does have a couple of tags on it, what I can make out of my photo says East Coast Design, but I can't make out a model number. I'll go take a better photo shortly and post it.
 
Yeah, final fight was a kit-only game. No true dedicated cab, though some will say a dynamo cab would be almost dedicated. I had one in a generic cabinet:

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Wish I still had it. As to your monitor frame, that's a K7000 universal frame, do you want to sell it? You've got to remove it to put a different monitor in anyway, so let me know if you do. If you knew what you were doing or researched a little, you could actually get a TV tube and a K7000 chassis and re-populate that frame. That way you'd have the 19 inch monitor that's needed.
 
Yeah, final fight was a kit-only game. No true dedicated cab, though some will say a dynamo cab would be almost dedicated. I had one in a generic cabinet:

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Wish I still had it. As to your monitor frame, that's a K7000 universal frame, do you want to sell it? You've got to remove it to put a different monitor in anyway, so let me know if you do. If you knew what you were doing or researched a little, you could actually get a TV tube and a K7000 chassis and re-populate that frame. That way you'd have the 19 inch monitor that's needed.
I've done a little research on converting a TV and saw a lot of differing opinions on the matter. I'm good enough with some lite soldering, so that may be a route I'm willing to take. I'd like to learn more about the tube and chassis situation so I could keep these going indefinitely.

You letting me know that's a k7000 frame is the exact type of information I was looking for, so I'm not sure if I'm willing to sell that, I think I'd rather just convert a TV if I can. I think it would be a lot easier to get a hold of one, now I just need to research the chassis and what it takes to get those working.

I'll let you know if I change my mind on letting go of the frame after I've done a little more research on it.

Thanks.
 
After researching a little bit, looks like K7000 chassis is going to be $200+ but I could pick up an older tube TV for next to nothing around here.

According to this thread, a 19" Zenith would slide right into the K7000 frame. So that's looking like a pretty viable option right now.

Still a lot to research before I commit to rebuilding a monitor for the first time, so if anyone has any suggested articles or videos that'd be awesome.
 
The anniversary edition is really good actually. Dont worry ha.
Lol! It's awesome. I've beaten it so many times already. I'm just more concerned about the actual hardware for the cab at this point. I only say that guy was a scammer because I reached out to him and asked some questions and he never responded. Plus the guys from the Discord for FFAE said he was likely a scammer :p
 
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