Konami cab restoration. Opinions wanted.

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I have a 4-player konami cabinet. I recently was spurred into action to start fixing it up due to socalarcade offering up a tmnt tit control panel (mine didn't have a control panel at all). So, now I have a complete konami cab that works.

Now, the question is which game's artwork do I want to put on it?
My konami cab was painted black by the previous owner, and I could not see what it was under the black by scraping the black off... they may have ripped off the old art. I have the tit overlay on the cp, but I'm not too thrilled with it. So, here are the options that I know of:

Bucky O'hare (?) - http://mame.comxa.com/cabinets/bucky.png
Crime fighters (?) - http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/11/118124210157.jpg
Metamorphic Force (?) - http://www.worthpoint.com/pmimages/images1/1/1106/26/1_fca708809b54d7918da775519be127d7.jpg
Mystic Warriors (?) - http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/11/1134757681.jpg
The simpsons - http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/10/1064269969.jpg
Sunset Riders http://www.worthpoint.com/pmimages/images1/1/0407/15/1_2da0b89cc7a5906b7645de0690798c3c.jpg
TMNT Turtles In Time - http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/10/1092108848.jpg
TMNT - http://www.joystixamusements.com/photos/TMNTVIDEO.JPG
Vendetta (?) - http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/11/1181242184330.jpg
X-MEN - http://sonnywilkins.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/xmen1.jpg

Those are the options that I know of and could find some pics of. The (?) means that I don't know if it's the standard simpsons/tmnt/sunset riders pinout.

So far, I'm leaning towards the original tmnt or xmen.

If anyone knows of any other 4-player compatible games, let me know!
 
I vote Sunset Riders, but I'm from Texas so what do you expect. All the artwork for it is available from Gameongrafix.com.
 
Personally those would be my top two choices as well. I like the TMNT side art, but I am not a fan of the marquee. I guess if I had to pic I would go with the x-men art. Its pretty awesome
 
tit control panel (mine didn't have a control panel at all)

I love tit control panels... ;)

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I would go with X-Men for the following reasons:

1. It has the best cab art of all the Konami cabs in my opinion.
2. It uses 3 buttons so you can interchange all the games without any problems whereas TMNT or Sunset Riders, you'd have to drill another button hole to play X-Men.
3. Who doesn't love X-Men? :)

I recently picked one up. Thank God the side art was all in good condition. Just need a new marquee. I removed the lock bars already. Those looked awful.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=130896
 
probably going to get tons of shit from klov about this but i vote convert it to a crime fighters. look at the marquee and then you will know where im going.... some cool street style graffiti on the side of the cabinet would make it look awesome......
 
probably going to get tons of shit from klov about this but i vote convert it to a crime fighters. look at the marquee and then you will know where im going.... some cool street style graffiti on the side of the cabinet would make it look awesome......

... I live in Long Beach (not the White part). I see more graffiti than I ever want to see every day. I wouldn't want that crap on my arcade collection. And yes, I know the background/culture associated with tagging. It's still stupid destruction of property unless you own it... and then, it's just bad taste.


For those of you who only know of graffiti from rap music videos and movies, I would recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Guide...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276746815&sr=8-1 It is a very interesting read, and at least one of the taggers who's "work" is illustrated is (or was) and arcade collector (though it isn't mentioned in the book).
 
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