Ideas on converting a wrestlefest

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I just purchased a wrestlfest because it was a steal and works good. It is dated and I want to convert it and put it in my friend movie theatre since it is too big to fit in my home arcade.

It is a 4player two button and I am looking for ideas on a more contemporary game that will be popular and won't break the bank to convert.

I do not mind adding a few buttons to make it a 3 or 4 button game.

If you have ideas and/or parts to do this I am interested.
 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kits are probably the most plentiful and popular choice for a good 4-player setup. I'd go that route.
 
by movie theatre do you mean an actual Theater where you pay to get in? Or is it your buddy's private movie room in his house?
 
everyone loves the turtles...

But alot of people would play wrestlefest.. as it is very fun to play.

leave it alone, dont put any money in converting it.
maybe after it pays for its self you can change it up... but I would put it in there
and see what you average per week/month first.
 
it really depends

1) how big is that control panel. If it's an Konami 4P deck then it's big enough.
2) how new of game do you want o have.

if the graphics are all trashed then you should strip it down to a clean black cab. If it has any good original art on there, you should try to keep it as such and just make it have swappable boards.

Eseyo and I have been talking about his Wrestlefest board. He has an Xmen and it's easy to make a 15pin header adaptor board so that you can plug in the adaptor for the 3P/4P Aux harness in a Konami cab can plug into the adaptor and and the adaptor moves the pins to the right locations on the 9 pin header on the Wrestlefest board.

This way you can run mostly Konami boards in the cab and go to the wrestlefest every once in a while. I would swap every time I empty the coins out.
 
TMNT would probably earn more than Wrestlefest in a movie theater, but the cost of converting to TMNT might make it not worth it. The board, marquee, repro side art, and repro CPO for TMNT is going to run you close to $400. I've been dying to restore my Sunset Riders cabinet back to TMNT, but I can't justify the cost right now for the side art, marquee, and CPO.
 
No way in hell I'd kit a Sunset Riders back into a Turtles, just get another cabinet and keep both! Sunset Riders is a great game, and if you've got art on yours leave it like that. (in my opinion :) )
 
No way in hell I'd kit a Sunset Riders back into a Turtles, just get another cabinet and keep both! Sunset Riders is a great game, and if you've got art on yours leave it like that. (in my opinion :) )

The marquee on mine is cracked and yellowed, and the side art is torn and peeling. My machine was kept on location outside at a carnival or a fair or something, so the art is in rough shape. It's going to have to come off at some point anyways, so when it does, I want to replace it with TMNT.
 
I am going to try Captain America and the Avengers. Especially since the new Iron man was just released and the Capt. America movie is coming out soon.
 
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