Typical Soul Calibur III cabinet examples and dimensions

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Long time lurker, infrequent poster. I'll cut to the chase: I gave all the internal guts (minus a screen I'm happy with) for a Soul Calibur III or Soul Calibur III cabinet including games, dongles, buttons, sticks, etc, and a control board (where all the buttons and sticks go), but I can't find what sort of cabinets these games were installed in. The control panel I have is from Soul Calibur II and has the vinyl graphics from it still installed, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out what cabinet this thing came from.

I understand these games were largely installed in Tekken 4 cabinets, but this control panel is laid out for Soul Calibur's style of combos rather than Tekken's arrangement. I'll see if I can dredge up a pic of the panel to see if anyone recognizes it, but any examples of the non-exhibtion cabinet would be super great.
 

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There was a big gap between when they released the Namco original Tekken Cab which a few of us call the "Big Black" and the next official Namco fighting cab which was the Tekken 5 cabinet which I call the "Bigger Black" it has the System 256. Tekken 4 did not have a US official cabinet and it's on 246 a long with SC2-3. These came in kit form so you wouldn't see a native cabinet for it. They might look funny on a "Bigger Black" which has System 256 hardware. I have a Bigger Black and a CloneNoir (Tekken 5 DR Asian LCD Cab)

I've wanted a Big Black as I typically like the big wooden cabinets.
 
Hey, that's exactly the kind of helpful info I needed! Is the Namco Big Black so uncommon it's not worth the chase, or do you think it's fairly simple to make one from scratch? Either approach works for me, but I'm leaning towards build from scratch.
 
Also, Soul Calibur 3 is technically a 256 game so I wonder if it was supposed to be on the Bigger Black instead of the regular one? That seems like a weird period for Namco, regardless.
 
Also, Soul Calibur 3 is technically a 256 game so I wonder if it was supposed to be on the Bigger Black instead of the regular one? That seems like a weird period for Namco, regardless.
System 16 has it listed under System 246

The big black isn't exactly Uncommon. I see them sold a few times a year in my area. They aren't favorites by many. Its a big cabinet for a 4/5 button game w/ the earlier Tekken games. They are big and there's a lot of empty space in them as they can accommodate a 27" Tube but also came w/ 25" when they were in short supply. The bigger blacks were steel frame and wood CP with wood panels up front for the coin door and ticket dispensers. They came with 29" flat screen CRTs in VGA.

You can't get a scratch build to look like these original Namco machines.
This is one local to me FS
 
SC3 I think is listed under 246 because it can run on the 246, but shipped on the 256. I looked this up years ago, it might have been faster load times, or better textures, or something. Besides the point though.

Any helpful keywords for your saved searches? I'm in Phoenix roughly, so it always feels like my arcade options are a little limited out here.
 
I think that most people dont know what to call them. i had a SC2 kit snd threw it in a Dynamo HS5 and I think it fits well.

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You've given me a bunch to chew on, probably leaning on scratch building a dynamo style can to take the control panel I already have possibly, unless a Big Black just falls out of the sky locally.

Much appreciated!
 
I don't think this game had a dedicated cabinet of any kind. The Big Black was pretty much for the earliest Namco titles of the early 90's. The later Big Black seems to have been an EU cabinet only. The manual does not show one and instead shows a vague image of a Sega New Net City and what appears to be either a Konami Windy or Namco Cyber Lead candy cabinet.
 
I've been looking at the candy cab style, but then where did my control panel come from? Lol

I snagged it off eBay years ago, but still haven't found where to puzzle piece it onto.
 
I've been looking at the candy cab style, but then where did my control panel come from? Lol

I snagged it off eBay years ago, but still haven't found where to puzzle piece it onto.

Lots of kits come with the control panel overlay.
 
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