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CHALLENGER

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First off I want to thank triple3fast for pointing out the 20 game sale on CL. I contacted the seller to see what I could find. He was a real cool guy. He was looking to get a NES or an SNES sytsem with games for a possible trade. So I offered him a boxed NES CHALLENGER set and a SNES Mario All-stars set with 65 NES games.
In return I get a working non damaged nasty Dynamo cabinet. He pulled some strings and made it happen.
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For the longest time I've been after a Dynamo cabinet to convert to a Street Fighter II: World Warrior. Day had finally came. He came and delivered it about 40mins ago, and I'm excited to get working on this ASAP. Really cool guy that made sure that I was satisfied the whole way through.

Now the machine, I believe is either an HS-1 or a 2 Not sure. It has a 25" monitor with no burns whatsoever. The cabinet appears to be not as stocky as the HS-5 like my brother has. Also the back door has a square extension because the monitor back end is too long.
I'm thinkin with that this used to have the original stock 19" monitor.
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I'm not sure if this was a special characteristic of the HS-1 or 2 models. But the PSU is on the drawer itself. I don't think the HS-5 model had that, the ones I've seen didn't. These are what is making me think it's an HS-1 or 2 model.
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The marquee bulbs are burnt out and may work if I throw some new ones in there. That is the least of my concern because this thing needs a bath. This machine seems to have suffered the fate of cost cutting conversions as many do on locations. But in time I will have this thing looking new like it did in the early 90's.
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The monitor was the one thing I worried mostly because of it's nature. But it fired on and no burn or anything from what I can see.
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The control panel of course is always taking the brunt of the damage if any on a machine. But there were extra holes cut out, but not in the 6 button layout. It could have been a 1941 or something or other. Then a thin aluminum top was put over it for the 4 button layout. I'm going to get a whole new 6 button layout CP and start from scratch. I already have new buttons for the machine, and it's not the original color scheme. I figured since Street Fighter: World Warrior used purple, black and yellow. These would be the color buttons I would use. The red while and blue always stuck out like a sore thumb to me.
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The front by the coin door is not bad at all. A bit of bondo will patch the holes up, and they are small ones this time. Again going against it's original color scheme. I'm painting the front of the cabinet dark royal purple. I even made relica dynamo stickers to match. Coin door will be taken off and re painted.
I will also have to fix the right speaker, doesn't appear to work.
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New plexi glass of course and artwork will be requested. The sides of the cabinet will get some attention that it needs and have new SFIIWW side art placed as well. Along with brand new t-molding.
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I'm happy with the trade, I think I made out pretty well. I have a lot of work to do to bring another dynamo SFII machine to it's former glory. But I will have fun doing it.

BTW. I'm looking for these button decals. Does anyone know of where I can find these? Thanks!
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Looks like a good trade to me :) Id be very happy with it. That looks like it will be a nice project to do in day or so
 
No problem buddy. I'm happy you got that!

Good luck!
 
First off I want to thank triple3fast for pointing out the 20 game sale on CL. I contacted the seller to see what I could find. He was a real cool guy. He was looking to get a NES or an SNES sytsem with games for a possible trade. So I offered him a boxed NES CHALLENGER set and a SNES Mario All-stars set with 65 NES games.
In return I get a working non damaged nasty Dynamo cabinet. He pulled some strings and made it happen.
DSC01949.jpg


For the longest time I've been after a Dynamo cabinet to convert to a Street Fighter II: World Warrior. Day had finally came. He came and delivered it about 40mins ago, and I'm excited to get working on this ASAP. Really cool guy that made sure that I was satisfied the whole way through.

Now the machine, I believe is either an HS-1 or a 2 Not sure. It has a 25" monitor with no burns whatsoever. The cabinet appears to be not as stocky as the HS-5 like my brother has. Also the back door has a square extension because the monitor back end is too long.
I'm thinkin with that this used to have the original stock 19" monitor.
DSC01981.jpg


I'm not sure if this was a special characteristic of the HS-1 or 2 models. But the PSU is on the drawer itself. I don't think the HS-5 model had that, the ones I've seen didn't. These are what is making me think it's an HS-1 or 2 model.
DSC01971.jpg


The marquee bulbs are burnt out and may work if I throw some new ones in there. That is the least of my concern because this thing needs a bath. This machine seems to have suffered the fate of cost cutting conversions as many do on locations. But in time I will have this thing looking new like it did in the early 90's.
DSC01984.jpg


The monitor was the one thing I worried mostly because of it's nature. But it fired on and no burn or anything from what I can see.
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Man what a great console set!! I'd love to have that set...
 
Let me know if you'd like me to come by and teach you how to play that SFII when you are done with it ;)

Grats on your score man! I was going to make an offer on the Virtua Fighter, but I am saving the last spot for a game for a Z-Back SFII:CE.
 
Let me know if you'd like me to come by and teach you how to play that SFII when you are done with it ;)

Grats on your score man! I was going to make an offer on the Virtua Fighter, but I am saving the last spot for a game for a Z-Back SFII:CE.

LOL Ok. Hopefully I can get it done before next semester starts.

You know he had a Zback Dynamo that I bid on about a month ago. It sold for about $182
 
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