out with the old (and useless), in with the new!
gentlemen and ladies,
kurt and i arrived at rhythm and hues yesterday evening, kurt’s SUV /burgeoning/ with the feeling of imminent arcadeishness. our traps were full. our analogies — terrible. yea, dear reader, we were not only successful, we done it up with *style*.
we present to you a fully working version of Dynamite Cop! it’s a Technos (long ‘o’) 2 player cabinet with SEGA model 2 hardware. the control panel is actually designed for 4 players (holes drilled underneath indicate 4 players with 2 or 3 buttons each), but it’s currently configured for 2. i believe that it’s easily large enough to be engineered for four players with room to spare (spinner, anyone?). I’ve checked KLOV, and i’m pretty sure that it used to be a WWF WrestleFest. are you excited yet? :) i am! it’s in the back loading dock next to the golden axe cabinet, under the protected area today. so go have a look (now we gotta get rid of that damn golden axe cab).
Some details:
The Good:
- fully working
- good wiring
- stereo audio amplifier with volume control
- pre drilled for 4 players (unsure how useable this is, however)
- sega model II hardware can be resold on ebay for more parts [model II also can run Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter II, etc]
- 27″ monitor with front mounted controls under the bezel.
- no burn-in
The Unknown:
- monitor may be standard resolution (because wrestlefest is), or it may be medium resolution (if the operator swapped out the monitor for a new one when he converted to Dynamite Cop). because medium resolution games (like dynamite cop) can be run on standard monitors (like wrestlefest), and that the original machine was standard resolution, I think we have a standard res arcade monitor. If its a medium resolution monitor, then we can’t run standard res games on it. HOWEVER, since we’re hooking the whole thing up to a pc, its a moot point.
The Bad:
- cabinet is in average condition, needs new t-molding and paint.
- finding a good spot to place it (this shouldn’t be a problem once we get it fixed up).
So now we need some more stuff:
- Arcade vga, a modifed radeon card for 80$ that can auto convert any pc resolution to arcade (standard/medium) modes.
- a 4 player i-pac. kurt was going to donate his, but it’s only good for 2 players, but we can use it in the meantime for testing.
- some more buttons with sticks, kurt is donating 2 happs competition joysticks and a bag of blue and red buttons.
Kurt has posted pictures of our arcade auction adventure!
and lastly, cost. the auction we went to was a ‘premium’ auction, meaning that everything was working (well, rigged to work for the duration of the auction anyway), so the prices weren’t exactly what we wanted, but i think we got a good deal, since the starting bid was about $200 or so for most of the cabs. here’s the skinny on the final bill:
$150.00 — our final bid
$19.50 — auctioneer’s fee based on +13% of final bid price
$12.36 — sales tax
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$181.87 — grand total
