Progress on easy Street Fighter 2 Restoration

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Street Fighter 2 I bought not to long ago is almost done, I went with a cheap route with this, I paid 100$ for the machine and not putting allot into it, I grew up playing this game so it was worth it too me. I recently repainted and rewired the ac part. I still need to fill in holes on the control panel and order a jamma harness and arcade to pc monitor converter because it had a bad monitor and a regular pc crt was the cheapest route, I am spraying a textured paint for the control until I order a overlay. When all said in done Ill have about 200$ into including cabinet and all.


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Did you put a PC monitor in there ? What did you do with the old one ?
 
Did you put a PC monitor in there ? What did you do with the old one ?

Yes I have a pc monitor in there, the old one has a broke horizontal coil and tube neck is broke, because the guy dropped the machine when moving it, i still have it in my garage just dont want to put any money is a severely burn in monitor and pc monitor with converter was the cheapest route
 
I believe it is a Centipede. Looks exactly like a converted Centipede to MK that was my first arcade game ever.

the only thing that doesnt make me think its a centipede is because the control panel middle hole is just to small for a track ball, it was for sure some king of veritcal game do to how the monitor mounting holes were, but i replaced the wood and the pc monitor fits in there nice, and had a old cardboard bezel from a dynamo cab that fit perfect
 
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Looks good so far. Too bad it didn't come in a Dynamo cut-corner cab. But I'm sure it will turn out nice in the end. I still need to restore my SF2:WW cab. Started to strip the vinyl to prep for patching/painting. Plan on getting replacement vinyl from TOG eventually.
 
Looks good so far. Too bad it didn't come in a Dynamo cut-corner cab. But I'm sure it will turn out nice in the end. I still need to restore my SF2:WW cab. Started to strip the vinyl to prep for patching/painting. Plan on getting replacement vinyl from TOG eventually.

its ok the paint is not the best, i just sanded lightly and put a coat of paint on, i wasnt going for a perfect finish just something that was better than what it was, i could easily turn around and sale it around my area for about 400$ and only will have in the end about 170$ into it but i plan keeping it for a long time since i grew up on this game, i might eventually upgrade the pcb to super street fighter 2
 
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looks very familiar

The one I got for $140 w/ a SF3 2nd Impact board looked pretty similar to this cab.

They thought it didn't work but there was a loose cable. The monitor needed a cap kit but that wasn't too hard. I put on a new CPO and cleaned up the graphics a little. (actually swapped the SF2 bezel for a faded one that I wanted to get rid of) I put in a Happy Fish v2 that actually worked with the odd Sega/Nanao monitor that was in there.

I sold it off and all it still needed was a little patching and painting. It played all of the CPS2 and MVS games pretty well.

Since it wasn't a dedicated SF2 I really didn't see the point in doing the 100% restore. As a friend once told me "a nice new control panel overlay and good controls makes a game like 10X better."
 

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The one I got for $140 w/ a SF3 2nd Impact board looked pretty similar to this cab.

They thought it didn't work but there was a loose cable. The monitor needed a cap kit but that wasn't too hard. I put on a new CPO and cleaned up the graphics a little. (actually swapped the SF2 bezel for a faded one that I wanted to get rid of) I put in a Happy Fish v2 that actually worked with the odd Sega/Nanao monitor that was in there.

I sold it off and all it still needed was a little patching and painting. It played all of the CPS2 and MVS games pretty well.

Since it wasn't a dedicated SF2 I really didn't see the point in doing the 100% restore. As a friend once told me "a nice new control panel overlay and good controls makes a game like 10X better."

I was going to get that control panel also in the near future, i am just waiting to order my video converter and new jamma harness and ill be pretty much done, im just painting the control panel textured gray for now, mine was not a full out restore, i just cleaned the inside up and rewired it for a learning experience for me and just painted the sides quick to make it look allot better, i might throw on some side art also but im not sure since it will be next to other cabs when i get more games in my basement, im saying in about 2 weeks ill be fully done with it, im stoked to play it, it will be my second game in my basement,im not putting plexi over the control panel either, i suck at lining it up and cutting it and it will be a home use only when i get done so ill just get the upgraded stuff with laminate coating from mame marquees
 
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+1 on the Capcom diamond plate CPO. I have it on SFII conversion and I think it looks great. It give you the flexibility to do what you want with the controls, and not have to be spot on with getting your button holes lined up. I also agree on not using plexi for home use. My CPO seen in the pic came from Mamemarquees and it is tough as hell.
 

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+1 on the Capcom diamond plate CPO. I have it on SFII conversion and I think it looks great. It give you the flexibility to do what you want with the controls, and not have to be spot on with getting your button holes lined up. I also agree on not using plexi for home use. My CPO seen in the pic came from Mamemarquees and it is tough as hell.

Is it allot tougher and thicker than regular vinyl, would it completely cover carriage bolts holes with out showing them, regular vinyl would just dip in the bolt hole,you get what im asking? how hard was it to apply..looks like you printed those splatter house graphics yourself
 
I don't think it would have any trouble covering empty bolt holes. It is isn't super super thick, but it's pretty sturdy. Applying it was easy, but you only will have one shot at it, cause the back is sticky as hell on the mamemarquee stuff, way stickier than what I have gotten from arcadeoverlays. All the Splatterhouse artwork was done by billybob (?) here on the forum, with the exception of the bezel, which I did with separate pieces of artwork printed by myself.
 
It was a Centipede, you can tell from looking at the wood between the CP and the marquee... for DigDug, Kangaroo etc. the wood is cut closer to the monitor glass. They might have thrown a different model's control panel on it for the conversion.

Wade
 
I was going to say it's a Dig Dug,but I've never owned a Centipede only a Dig Dug,so I couldn't say for sure.
 
Did a little work last night on the control panel, I got most of the cheese holes filled in and the next step is some bondo, prime and paint flat black then a textured hammered gray that is almost a near match to the monitor bezel. I couldn't resist test fitting the buttons and joysticks. I might not be able to get to the bondo and paint today, its suppose to storm and Im not using that stinking junk in a closed garage

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