Mark III
Mark III Arcade Cabinet
Holding off on the Reworking of Machines
Mar 31st
I’m going to hold off on reworking of the machines this week due to lack of time. I was fighting with a headache caused by lack of sleep yesterday so I didn’t get to progress with the switching like I hoped. More parts have arrived, and if there’s enough time, Neo-Geo should be back up by Saturday.
The good news is I will be picking up some more stuff tonight. None of it will be ready by this Saturday’s fighting tourney at CGC. Might not get to start on any of it till Sunday/Monday. I’ll announce what I’ve got once it’s all tested & running.
Tekken 3, New Controls and other updates
Feb 23rd
Tekken 3 is now playable, although more work is needed to make it complete. Right now I have a 17″ CRT monitor in the cabinet. I am wanting to add a 19″ LCD sometime in the near future. Plexi/Lexan is still needed to be cut for it and a coin door is needed to make it mostly complete. Minor things like getting the Marquee lit-up and swapping the controls for punch and kick are needed.
New parts came in yesterday (Feb 22) and some upgrades will be going in. Mostly the joysticks will be swapped out in Street Fighter 2 with some Happ Competitions and plans are to cover the control panel while the joysticks are out. Raiden 2 will have the second player controls added once Street fighter 2 is done.
Robot Unicorn Attack’s joystick controller has been removed and replaced with a keyboard controller which should make the controls more responsive. I could tell the difference once it was put in. Not sure if anyone else will. I’ve got the material for its new bezel, just have to cut it. I’m wanting to add the Heavy Metal version of RUA to the cabinet. This will give it a little more variety and hopefully keep our brains from being slowly numbed by the song from Erasure.
Final Lap 3 is in and running. Maybe sometime in the not to distant future I can pick up another one so they can be linked and have multiplayer.
The Neo-Geo is having power supply issues at the moment. I have a new one in to test and hopefully have it up soon. Once this is fixed, all 7 cabinets will be running.
The arcade area at CGC is now darker and has some black lights going. Additional black lights and more atmosphere lighting will be added in the upcoming months. Hopefully once the coming string of weekend Conventions settles down. The stuff in the old Anime-Retro Lounge has been moved out and more machines will be put in once more have been acquired. I may do some rearranging of the cabinets to make more room for new finds.
Future projects/plans:
- Stepmania might be making a comeback sooner than I thought. That is if everything goes through. If so, it will be impressive.
- Ports/remakes of some old school retro-games might be appearing once more cabinets are found.
- I’m currently working on some plans for building my own cabinets. One of the items in the order I just received was a T-Molding groove cutter. Hopefully soon I can pick up a circular saw and some MDF and start working on them. This might be sometime in the Summer or Fall before I get to start the work.
- I’ve got my eye out some more arcade boards. I’ve got some in mind and maybe I’ll have enough money to invest in them after tax refunds come in. That is, if the upcoming conventions don’t tap me out first.