If you had a empty Capcom Cabinet what would you do with it?

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If you had a empty Capcom Cabinet what would you do with it?

Got this for $50, it was converted to a big buck? game at some point so it has holes drilled on the front for guns

It has the control panel, coin doors, monitor glass, power supply and harness intact...the monitor, artwork and PCB is long gone

I have a 19" 4:3ish LCD I can throw in it, and I also have a spare wells 25" monitor frame in storage and if I am patient enough I might can locate a 25" tube tv locally and find a compatible chassis online and put in a arcade monitor.

I'm on the fence what to do with it, should I keep it and put a cool single capcom fighting game in it? Or wait for a Darksoft CPS2 boards come up for sale?

Or should I build it as cheaply as I can with a 19" lcd, new jamma harness, power supply, and six button controls with a Pandora box or similar...then flip it for a small profit?

what to do, what to do

 

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Put two more speakers where the guns were, cover them with grills and charge $500 because it has "rich Corinthian stereo sound"

Hey putting speakers there is a good idea lol...I need to cover those holes

If I was going to keep it I was going to recover everything in formica, covering the holes anyways
 
I was googling some restoration ideas earlier and found a guy with a similar cabinet and did a Street Fighter II restoration

He gave $100 for the cabinet with severely hacked control panel and no PCB or working monitor..looked way worse than the one I have.

Kind of gave a monetary tally along the way, did a repaint, sourced new graphics, marquee, control panel art, bought a replacement 25" arcade monitor, PCB ect ect

It looked good when it was done, he said he sold it on eBay for $500

Looking at what he did and material costs he basically restored a game for someone and gave them a few hundred (at least) to take it off his hand.

That's not something I want to do, if I fix to flip I'm going to make something out of it or fix it up and keep it myself for enjoyment
 
if you don't have a crt handy - pi mame or multi board.
When you stumble onto a monitor throw that in with whatever random jamma game strikes your fancy.
 
I've always wanted to try and build a ArcadeSD multi with a joystick and trackball. That way if I liked it I would sell off some raster games and focus on collecting vectors.
 
ArPiCade

I did the ArPiCade route with a Dynamo cab I have. Did a tube swap with 25" Phillips TV and all good! Kept it all Jamma and wired in 4 more buttons to the kick harness on the card.
 
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That's pretty interesting, I have a raspberry pi i'm not doing anything with and the hold up was jamma...I like the appeal of the multiboards using jamma for plug and play

I wonder if there is a way to boot directly into a mame front end? And not the retropie front end, eliminating that step

You mean boot directly to a certain game? I'm pretty sure that can be done.
 
You mean boot directly to a certain game? I'm pretty sure that can be done.

I'm sorry, I meant boot directly into the mame / arcade frontend of the pi and not to the main menu screen

when I was tinkering with retropie, I still went to a menu screen that had whatever emulators you had roms for and you had to cycle left and right to choose PS1, mame, Nintendo etc

What if I wanted to load it directly into the arcade emulator frontend / screen similar to the way a pandora loads...directly into the arcade interface. Then all you have to do is start choosing an arcade game you wanted to play

bypassing any extra clicks and steps

I hope I am making sense
 
I'm sorry, I meant boot directly into the mame / arcade frontend of the pi and not to the main menu screen

when I was tinkering with retropie, I still went to a menu screen that had whatever emulators you had roms for and you had to cycle left and right to choose PS1, mame, Nintendo etc

What if I wanted to load it directly into the arcade emulator frontend / screen similar to the way a pandora loads...directly into the arcade interface. Then all you have to do is start choosing an arcade game you wanted to play

bypassing any extra clicks and steps

I hope I am making sense

Yes that is how it works, but you can get a ready to go image from Highscoresaves or configure your own set up.

Here's a short video of us playing R-Type Leo on it.

https://youtu.be/cvKFDZqtfws
 
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Easy fixes and I'd turn it into a dedicated CPS-1 game like UN Squadron.

Y'all are crazy for wanting to do anything else.
 
How mangled is the control panel? That to me would be the biggest obstacle to converting this cabinet into something meaningful.
 
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