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Just purchased a SNK Neo 50 cabinet from a church on craigslist. Don't ask me how this thing made it over to america, but it certainly is a japanese style cabinet. The only two things missing to it is the bench and game board. Little beat up around the edges, but I plan on restoring it from top to bottom. New paint, new decals, new electronics, and new controls except for maybe the 50" rear projection screen unless it needs to be.
Here's a picture of the original. Of course a typical white paint color along side a metal cabinet.
What I plan to do is sand down the wooden parts on the screen cab section and strip the paint on the metal control deck and go with a classic Red paint used on most of the American wooden cabinets.
I started to tear up the control panel, which of course will be revamped. Somehow this had a 7 button interface for each player........which doesn't make sense as MVS multi slot systems only used 4 buttons per player, and then 2 game selection buttons. I think they had something else in this....
Funny the coin acceptor was originally designed for Yen, but someone slipped a US quarter coin comparitor in it lolz.
Interesting little item that was inside the control cabinet. All the harness leads met and passed through this little thing and on top there was two molex connectors of different sizes that were just tied into each other. Upon removing the harness I discovered the molex connectors were connected to a few specific leads. One connected to both the Left and Right audio channels. And the other was connected to the Game Selection buttons. Obviously something to swap between a multi slot MVS pinout or a typical JAMMA pinout.
Right now I'm awaiting game components. I ordered a 4 Slot MVS and a game cart from Coinopexpress............in Hong Kong.................first and last time I will deal with them.
Otherwise I've already received my new MVS harness ordered from Ebay. Right now I need to get some testing done on the screen to ensure color quality and if any repairs are needed.
I'll will keep this thread up to date when I make any big changes.
Here's a picture of the original. Of course a typical white paint color along side a metal cabinet.
What I plan to do is sand down the wooden parts on the screen cab section and strip the paint on the metal control deck and go with a classic Red paint used on most of the American wooden cabinets.
I started to tear up the control panel, which of course will be revamped. Somehow this had a 7 button interface for each player........which doesn't make sense as MVS multi slot systems only used 4 buttons per player, and then 2 game selection buttons. I think they had something else in this....
Funny the coin acceptor was originally designed for Yen, but someone slipped a US quarter coin comparitor in it lolz.
Interesting little item that was inside the control cabinet. All the harness leads met and passed through this little thing and on top there was two molex connectors of different sizes that were just tied into each other. Upon removing the harness I discovered the molex connectors were connected to a few specific leads. One connected to both the Left and Right audio channels. And the other was connected to the Game Selection buttons. Obviously something to swap between a multi slot MVS pinout or a typical JAMMA pinout.
Right now I'm awaiting game components. I ordered a 4 Slot MVS and a game cart from Coinopexpress............in Hong Kong.................first and last time I will deal with them.
Otherwise I've already received my new MVS harness ordered from Ebay. Right now I need to get some testing done on the screen to ensure color quality and if any repairs are needed.
I'll will keep this thread up to date when I make any big changes.
