WTB: NOS WWF Superstars CPO/Side Art

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I know these have to be a dime a dozen...likely laying in a pile on your work bench or stashed in a corner of storage. I bet you were even gonna throw them away. Bust em' out, dust em' off, roll em' up in a shipping tube and help a fellow collector restore a WWF Superstars cabinet! :)

I just need the control panel art and the side art. I have everything else covered. Shipping to 94519.

Anyone that could have vouched for me at RGVAC is likely gone (plus those deals were a loooong time ago), so here's some other feedback options:

My Ebay ID is s0s. Used it ever since Ebay launched and it is still 100%. :)

I've also done plenty of deals at Digital Press. Here's my feedback thread:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82197&highlight=Sosage

P.S. I'll also be looking for a set of NOS Guerrilla War art after this project (CPO/Side Art/Bezel). Just a heads up if you happen to have what I need for both games. :)
 
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What are the bump rules here? At least 24-hours? :p

Check your closets...that stack of artwork you haggled out of an ops warehouse...I know someone has these that doesn't want them. :)
 
Still looking...I know some of you have this stuff tucked away inside some random project Donkey Kong or Dragon's Lair you haven't looked at in years.
 
Here's 1 piece of the side art. It's a start at least....
http://cgi.ebay.com/WWE-SUPERSTARS-SIDE-ART-1-/280543965864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

BTW, what cabinet is yours in? Superstars is one of my early arcade memories. I had one for a number of years in a Berzerk cabinet before getting rid of it. Back in January I found one in its dedicated cabinet and I'm glad to have Superstars back in the collection.

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Here's 1 piece of the side art. It's a start at least....
http://cgi.ebay.com/WWE-SUPERSTARS-SIDE-ART-1-/280543965864?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

BTW, what cabinet is yours in? Superstars is one of my early arcade memories. I had one for a number of years in a Berzerk cabinet before getting rid of it. Back in January I found one in its dedicated cabinet and I'm glad to have Superstars back in the collection.

Yeah. I was holding out on BIN'ing that just to see if I could get both sides from here. It's looking like I'm gonna have to piece the art together.

The cabinet is a long story. I picked up a Centipede back in 2003 that was converted to WWF Superstars. The conversion was actually pretty well done. The control panel was populated with everything that a legit Superstars would have (the unique white sticks, the plastic button indicators, etc.). The Centipede is still sitting in a corner waiting to be revived.

So I originally took all the Superstars stuff off and put it in a corner. A couple years later I run into another deal for a group of converted cabinets. One is an obvious generic conversion cab (turned into a ganky MVS 2-slot). On the drive home, the machine topples over and sustains some slight wood damage. It isn't destroyed, but it does need to be reglued on some of the support pieces in the back. I figure "whatever". I'll strip the parts out of it then offer it for free.

Long story short there, I get dicked around and decide to never try to give anything away for free again. I push the cabinet into "deathrow", where it awaits a possible trip to the landfill if I run out of room (I dread the day I have to trash a cabinet...and would have a hard time doing so...but if I couldn't find a use for that cab I would have no choice).

Fast forward to 2009. I rediscover the wrestling of my youth and have a fun time watching old Macho Man Randy Savage interviews and matches on YT. It dawns on me that I have a Superstars PCB out in the garage. So I wander out there and realize...damn...I have most of the parts for a dedicated cabinet. What did this thing use to come in?

Pull up Arcadeflyers and...well...hot damn. That looks like the cabinet I was going to junk. It can't be. I wander outside, look at it. Well shit. It is! I then go back and forth triple checking. I believe I also read a post from you about finding a dedicated cabinet and it looks to be the same exact one.

The crazier part was that I triple checked the CP on the cabinet and it is drilled exactly like a Superstars (with the three selection buttons on top and everything). I mean, what exactly are the odds of this happening? It's like the planets aligned and a Superstars is waiting to be reborn in my garage.

I'm hoping to also run Wrestlefest in it as well, but the cabinet/artwork I really like is Superstars. It captures that era of wrestling I was really into as a kid. Back when I thought these guys were larger than life. Plus...Superstars has Macho Man...that's auto-win in my book. :)

Right now I am trying to clean the white stick tops, since I am pretty sure there is no replacement for them (they're pretty unique). Mine are still slightly yellow. Once I have most of the artwork lined up I'm gonna start seriously stripping the cabinet and going to town.

Sorry. That was long. :p
 
Yeah. I was holding out on BIN'ing that just to see if I could get both sides from here. It's looking like I'm gonna have to piece the art together.

The cabinet is a long story. I picked up a Centipede back in 2003 that was converted to WWF Superstars. The conversion was actually pretty well done. The control panel was populated with everything that a legit Superstars would have (the unique white sticks, the plastic button indicators, etc.). The Centipede is still sitting in a corner waiting to be revived.

So I originally took all the Superstars stuff off and put it in a corner. A couple years later I run into another deal for a group of converted cabinets. One is an obvious generic conversion cab (turned into a ganky MVS 2-slot). On the drive home, the machine topples over and sustains some slight wood damage. It isn't destroyed, but it does need to be reglued on some of the support pieces in the back. I figure "whatever". I'll strip the parts out of it then offer it for free.

Long story short there, I get dicked around and decide to never try to give anything away for free again. I push the cabinet into "deathrow", where it awaits a possible trip to the landfill if I run out of room (I dread the day I have to trash a cabinet...and would have a hard time doing so...but if I couldn't find a use for that cab I would have no choice).

Fast forward to 2009. I rediscover the wrestling of my youth and have a fun time watching old Macho Man Randy Savage interviews and matches on YT. It dawns on me that I have a Superstars PCB out in the garage. So I wander out there and realize...damn...I have most of the parts for a dedicated cabinet. What did this thing use to come in?

Pull up Arcadeflyers and...well...hot damn. That looks like the cabinet I was going to junk. It can't be. I wander outside, look at it. Well shit. It is! I then go back and forth triple checking. I believe I also read a post from you about finding a dedicated cabinet and it looks to be the same exact one.

The crazier part was that I triple checked the CP on the cabinet and it is drilled exactly like a Superstars (with the three selection buttons on top and everything). I mean, what exactly are the odds of this happening? It's like the planets aligned and a Superstars is waiting to be reborn in my garage.

I'm hoping to also run Wrestlefest in it as well, but the cabinet/artwork I really like is Superstars. It captures that era of wrestling I was really into as a kid. Back when I thought these guys were larger than life. Plus...Superstars has Macho Man...that's auto-win in my book. :)

Right now I am trying to clean the white stick tops, since I am pretty sure there is no replacement for them (they're pretty unique). Mine are still slightly yellow. Once I have most of the artwork lined up I'm gonna start seriously stripping the cabinet and going to town.

Sorry. That was long. :p
Awesome! I'd love to see pics of the progress! :) I've also thought of using my WrestleFest pcb in my Superstars cabinet. It will work fine, but the 3rd start button wiring is slightly changed on the JAMMA harness...they moved it from the parts side to the solder side so really all you'd have to do is run a really short jumper wire to make it work. I've noticed my control panel overlay doesn't have the plastic button labels...the labels are just part of the overlay and I don't think I've seen a version like that floating around. Mine is fairly yellowed so it would be nice to get replace someday. Oh well.

My favorite team combination back in the day was definitely Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior/Macho Man. Lately I've been using the Big Boss Man as one of my wrestlers since he can do his Boss Man Slam finishing move repeatedly and the computer can't break out of the pattern....guaranteed victory.
 
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Yeah! I'll start a restoration thread soon.

@guru Thanks for all the info! I wasn't aware of that issue with Wrestlefest. I totally would have put it in and then scratched my head. :p

Edit: Weird about the plastic tabs. Maybe they were just for conversion kits? The one CPO I missed recently on ebay did not have the button name artwork on it. I'll try to take pics of the plastic tags I am talking about later.

@salmart Sent you a PM last night. :)
 
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Yeah! I'll start a restoration thread soon.

@guru Thanks for all the info! I wasn't aware of that issue with Wrestlefest. I totally would have put it in and then scratched my head. :p

Edit: Weird about the plastic tabs. Maybe they were just for conversion kits? The one CPO I missed recently on ebay did not have the button name artwork on it. I'll try to take pics of the plastic tags I am talking about later.

@salmart Sent you a PM last night. :)
Yeah I'm thinking the plastic tags were for the conversion kits. I've never seen a cpo for sale that has them as part of the overlay like mine is. Unfortunately mine doesn't have any kind of ID tags on it so it's hard to really say much about the history of the cabinet. I'm thinking Dynamo probably made the cabinet, but Technos obviously shipped a complete game to buyers, so that makes it dedicated in my book even if the cabinet is generic. Honestly I can't say I've seen other Dynamo cabinets of the same shape before. It's not like it's a cut corner or other common model. The manual for Superstars calls it an "American Technos cabinet" under the specifications for its size and weight. Here's a page from the manual with the JAMMA pinout. You can see lower case b on the parts side is for 2 player start co-op play. For WrestleFest they just moved it over to pin 24 which is the solder side of the connector. I wonder why they would change it, but I would guess it was just pure chance that they happened to use pin 24 instead of pin "b." Either way a small jumper wire takes care of it and makes them easy to swap.

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Edit: I was just thinking of the time I attended a live WWF event over in Flint back in the late 80's. Now a days they would probably never even go there for a "house show" but one of the events I went to was taped for WWF Superstars that aired on Saturdays. Anyway, I can remember getting a program at one of the events and it had an advertisement for the game in it. It's basically the same as the flyer on arcadeflyers.com but different text. I've thought of buying that specific program off ebay just to have and put near the machine. I can't tell you how much time I spent daydreaming about playing it as a kid until I finally got the chance.
 
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Lately I've been using the Big Boss Man as one of my wrestlers since he can do his Boss Man Slam finishing move repeatedly and the computer can't break out of the pattern....guaranteed victory.

Not guaranteed since you have to wear the opponent down first before you can perform the side slam. The best 2 wrestlers in Superstars are Macho Man and Big Boss Man. Boss Man for the Side Slam trick, and Macho Man because his special move, the Flying Clothesline works on Andre the Giant. If the game is set to give back 3 bars of life after each win I can beat the game on credit.
 
Not guaranteed since you have to wear the opponent down first before you can perform the side slam. The best 2 wrestlers in Superstars are Macho Man and Big Boss Man. Boss Man for the Side Slam trick, and Macho Man because his special move, the Flying Clothesline works on Andre the Giant. If the game is set to give back 3 bars of life after each win I can beat the game on credit.
Right you have to wear them down, but once you hit the side slam once that is it as long as the cpu's partner doesn't break up the pin. I usually use Hogan or whoever to start wearing them down and then Bossman can come in and after a few moves he'll hit his finisher.
 
Just wanted to add that I had a Superstars in this same cabinet, looked dedicated to me but everyone always told me there was never a dedicated Superstars cabinet. My sticks and buttons had been replaced but everything else was identical.
This has been debated before back when I got my dedicated cab earlier this year. I can understand why people would feel this way, but I would suggest anyone that feels that way to look at the 2 pictures below....that's very strong evidence that it was available as a dedicated and I've never seen any evidence that it wasn't other than people's assumptions. To be honest I was in that same camp that thought it wasn't dedicated either, but again just these 2 images alone should be evidence enough. I haven't even scanned the page of the manual that gives the cabinet specifications such as weight, height, and monitor models and that right there is even more evidence. Superstars is a JAMMA game that probably 90% of the people here could care less about and since so many conversions have been seen I can see why it's commonly assumed to be kit only. I'm sure some would argue the cabinet is so generic it's not truly dedicated but if it came from Technos like this that's good enough for me.

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This has been debated before back when I got my dedicated cab earlier this year. I can understand why people would feel this way, but I would suggest anyone that feels that way to look at the 2 pictures below....that's very strong evidence that it was available as a dedicated and I've never seen any evidence that it wasn't other than people's assumptions. To be honest I was in that same camp that thought it wasn't dedicated either, but again just these 2 images alone should be evidence enough. I haven't even scanned the page of the manual that gives the cabinet specifications such as weight, height, and monitor models and that right there is even more evidence. Superstars is a JAMMA game that probably 90% of the people here could care less about and since so many conversions have been seen I can see why it's commonly assumed to be kit only. I'm sure some would argue the cabinet is so generic it's not truly dedicated but if it came from Technos like this that's good enough for me.

The truth is that most JAMMA games DID come dedicated. It just isn't as easy to nail down what they came in compared to, say, Nintendo/Atari/Midway cabinets. These games also weren't as exotic or unique, since the majority were in generic Dynamo cabinets.

Honestly, I can't remember ever really seeing the cabinet Superstars is using. I don't remember seeing a control panel with that shape on very many generic cabinets in the wild.
 
The truth is that most JAMMA games DID come dedicated. It just isn't as easy to nail down what they came in compared to, say, Nintendo/Atari/Midway cabinets. These games also weren't as exotic or unique, since the majority were in generic Dynamo cabinets.

Honestly, I can't remember ever really seeing the cabinet Superstars is using. I don't remember seeing a control panel with that shape on very many generic cabinets in the wild.
Yeah many JAMMA cabs were dedicated as Dynamo or other cabs like P.O.W. or Guerrilla War so it's definitely harder to tell. I think it's neat to know what the original cabinets are for these JAMMA games since so many were conversions and that's where the common belief of a game only being a kit comes into play. I remember how shocked I was to find out about the dedicated cab for Capcom Bowling.

@ pmichelsen: I hope I didn't come across as personally attacking you or anything and if it seemed that way I apologize. I only wanted to share what I've found out about the game from the flyer and manual. Like I said my feeling is that most commonly believe it to be only a conversion kit game. I would expect people to say it wasn't dedicated if they've never seen the manual (I don't think it's even been scanned...yet) or the flyer.
 
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side decal

I have one side left. 9.5 out of 10
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