Poor Konami Cabinet

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It does have a great game in it though. I forgot how Xmen vs Street Fighter has much better characters than Marvel Vs Capcom. I think I need to get myself a B board!
 
I've seen worse in those 4-player cabs.

What you're lookin' at is pure laziness there. The dude didn't feel like drilling more joystick holes, so he clusterfucked all those controls into the available ones in the center. meh.
 
Those controls are unnecessarily close together considering all that real estate they had available. Is elbowing your opponent really THAT important to XMEN vs SF?
 
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LOL it is like the opposite of those MAME Monstrosities where they have 52 buttons and 18 joysticks and 2 trackballs on a control panel! :D
 
Lazy conversion.

They used the player 2 & 3 joystick and button holes
rather than start fresh or, god forbid, drill new holes
with an ideal 2-player layout in mind.

Saves 15 minutes. Totally understandable. :(
 
Your right. Poor Konami cab that STOPPED making money for its owner so he put in a game that could make $500.00 a week.

WAH!

Matt
 
I was just referring to the botched CP job. I love Xmen Vs Street Fighter.

True. Those control panel layouts suck! With all that room you could do a much better joy with button/joystick placement.

Matt
 
I doubt it makes any money at all with that control setup.

You'd be surprised.

In San Jose a Street Fighter missing 3 buttons and the down direction not working on the joystick would still do just fine bitd.

Matt
 
I've *never* understood putting games out on location with mangled/missing/unusable controls. I mean, it might fool someone into putting the first quarter in, but once they realize the controls are screwed, they aren't going to play it again.

Like the mini cabinet converted to Capcom Bowling, with a vertical monitor plexi and the trak-ball so close to it that you can't spin it without smashing your knuckles into the monitor plexi. Completely unplayable... what's the point?

Or the Ms-Pac converted to 1942... with the original 4-way stick still in it. Again, pretty frustrating and not fun to play.

A Centuri cabinet converted to Golden Tee. Again, more knuckle-smashing fun. This one was actually partially playable, since the control panel was actually big enough to hold the trak-ball, but still. Not that fun to play.

-Ian
 
I've *never* understood putting games out on location with mangled/missing/unusable controls. I mean, it might fool someone into putting the first quarter in, but once they realize the controls are screwed, they aren't going to play it again.

Like the mini cabinet converted to Capcom Bowling, with a vertical monitor plexi and the trak-ball so close to it that you can't spin it without smashing your knuckles into the monitor plexi. Completely unplayable... what's the point?

Or the Ms-Pac converted to 1942... with the original 4-way stick still in it. Again, pretty frustrating and not fun to play.

A Centuri cabinet converted to Golden Tee. Again, more knuckle-smashing fun. This one was actually partially playable, since the control panel was actually big enough to hold the trak-ball, but still. Not that fun to play.

-Ian

Some operators simply dont get it. They have to have techs or employees that play games in order for them to get converted correctly. Your 100% right on target about the trackballs being to close to plexis and the 4 way joystick on a 1942. To an OP thats OK. To a player thats totally uncool.

Those angled joysticks on the game in the original post in this thread is just pure laziness. Obviously the game was a 4 player game like a Turtles or something so instead of straightening out the joystick and moving them so the players had more room whomever did the conversion took the easy way out. Not a good way to try and make money...

Matt

Looks like the joysticks are straight to the screen its just the buttons that are wonkey so its not too bad. There could be more room between players though.
 
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