Free Street Fighter 2 Cab?

[MoreEbolaForYou]

I'll repost this from my website. Maybe this is supposed to go into the arcade section, but no one posts there, so here it goes. Move it if need be.

Arcade News!!!
As you may have noticed we some of us here are pretty into wasting money on collecting arcade games. That's why a call I recieved yesterday was quite tantilizing. Mr. Twister called me up right as I was leaving my work and said our friend Lynn phoned him and said there was a Street Fighter 2 machine on the side of the road with a 'free' sign on it. The machine was on the East Side which is maybe 20 - 25 minutes from my work, so I knew I had to get there quick. When I was about 5 minutes away, I got a call from my friend, who also moonlights as my landlord, and he somehow locked his keys between the jailbar screen door and the backdoor. It's freezing outside, and time was of the essence, so I was on a cannonball run to my house. After the detour, I let him in so he could get his keys, and it was a tense drive back over to the eastside.

http://www.wiskate.com/news/data/upimages/sf2_outside.jpg
Fig 1a: The beast rests in the snow.

I didn't know exactly where this thing was located, so I just parked in the general area and started combing the blocks. A few minutes later, SF2 was spotted! I got the Captain on the phone, since he's the poor bastard that has the pickup truck and invariably gets the calls like these, and he was on his way so fast. While I was waiting I greedily guarded that thing like a Tapir mother guarding her young. Everytime someone would look at it I'd give them the most fearful scowl you've ever seen. Cap finally arrived soon after, and we had the game loaded up in mere seconds. He shuttled it to Cream City while I was responsible and went home and did my chores.

http://www.wiskate.com/news/data/upimages/tapir_cap.jpg
Fig 1b: Josh and Capy load the Street Fighter 2 Machine

A few hours later I was finally able to make it over to the park. Best part: it doesn't actually work right now. Second best part: we already have a Street Fighter 2 machine there. Anyway, the monitor comes up, so that's a really good sign. I'll have it fixed in no time though. Hopefully. But hey, free arcade game!

http://www.wiskate.com/news/data/upimages/sf2sm.jpg
Fig 1c: The game in its final resing place. Yes there, sharp eye, that's a Gauntlet cab!

[Jagasian]

The problem with Street Fighter 2 series cabs and especially the Championship Edition cabs is that most of the ones floating around for trade/sale are not true official Street Fighter 2 cabs. Capcom did release complete cabs, with decals, marques, etc. But many people, for one reason or another, simply recycled old cabs and purchased the arcade PCB and decals.

I'd love to see pictures of all of the official complete Capcom Street Fighter 2 cabs. As a collector, such a thing would be far more valuable than recycled cabs from other games, but with a SF2 PCB and marquee.

[MoreEbolaForYou]

yeah, don't see too many dedicated sf2 cabs. most are conversions. conversions which never should have happened. like a gauntlet turned into sf2. but there was obviously a time when sf2 would earn an operator MUCH more money than gauntlet ever could, so it's understandable. funny how now a nice Gauntlet cab would cost way way more than a sf2 cab, which are a dime a dozen.

[rjohnson]

btw...That is a young Tapir with a Capybara (world's largest rodent) at a feeding trough.... i was a zoo keeper.... tapirs shoot urine streams up to 15 feet with GREAT accuracy...

so....

Don"t get them PISSED...

p.sssssss (haha) here is what a your Tapir looks like...
http://www.cord.edu/faculty/sze/atu.jpg




btw...CONGRATS on the cabinet... it looks GREAT!

[rjohnson]

i meant YOUNG tapir.... oops...
http://www.cord.edu/faculty/sze/atu.jpg :eek 2:

[Whiskers the Wonder Cat]

http://www.wiskate.com/news/data/upimages/tapir_cap.jpg

What the hell?

[Jagasian]

Isn't that the giant Amazonian rat? Seriously, I think that is what that brown creature is.

Ahhh, I had forgotten that the terminology was "dedicated" versus a "conversion". Street Fighter 2 was huge, and arguably still is very popular. Are there any sites, guides, whatever, on collecting Street Fighter 2 arcade machines? I own a supergun and several PCBs that I bought in the late 90s for around $10 each. But it would obviously be nicer to have dedicated cabs for each SF2 game. Imagine a room with a dedicated cab of SF2: WW, SF2: CE, SF2: Turbo, SSF2, and SSF2: Turbo. Thats all of them, right? 5 street fighter games total. Of course there are the numerous bug fix versions and the different releases for nationalities.

I've seen so many cabs converted into SF2 cabs, that I think I've gotten what a dedicated cab looks like. Please post pics if you've got them.

[MoreEbolaForYou]

haha loving the tapir and capybara comments. probably my two favorite animals, so when i ran across that photo, i was obviously stunned and excited. they're both underdogs of the animal kingdom. there is absolutely nothing special about them whatsoever (except for being able to piss 15 foot streams, and being the worlds largest rodent, respectively), and that's why i love them so much.

back on subject, you know, i can't really think of what a dedicated sf2 cab may look like either. let me load up klov and see what they give us...
http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/S/cStreet_Fighter_II_-_Champion_Edition.jpg
is that the dedicated cab? if so...totally generic.

i've had thoughts about conversion back to gauntlet, but it would definitely be easier just to get a new machine. with the cost of seperately getting the boards, wiring harness, control panel, etc etc, you'd probalby end up paying double. or maybe even more. kind of sad.

[Jagasian]

From what I remember, SF2:CE cabs are almost always conversions because for a long time, Capcom only sold SF2:CE as a conversion. I am not sure if they ever sold it as a dedicated cab. SF2:WW is a different story though. I am not the best source for info on this, because the last time I read up SF2 arcade games was a long time ago and my memory often doesn't serve me well.

When it comes to arcade games, I've really been itching to really starting to collect SF2 cabs. There has to be somebody with a complete collection that knows every in and out of SF2 arcade games. I mean, we have the same type of people for other series, such as Puckman/Pacman.

[Atarian75]

Hey Josh. Glad you got to the machine in time. As soon as I saw it I gave Bill a call to see if you guys wanted it. Too bad it doesn't work. I figured if nothing else you could use it for parts though. Enjoy.

-Kelan

P.S.- Congrats on getting Satan's Hallow working. I'll be there tomorrow to check it out.

[whoisKeel]

http://www.wiskate.com/news/data/upimages/tapir_cap.jpg
Fig 1b: Josh and Capy load the Street Fighter 2 Machine

Nice find! BTW, which one is capy and which one is josh? :)

Edit: this pic is now my wallpaper.

[Lothars]

Very cool, Awesome find

I also like the other picture :)

very cute.

[Sosage]

is that the dedicated cab? if so...totally generic.

You can't trust KLOV for accuracy when it comes to cabinet pics. The place is filled to the brim with images of conversions.

This is how I understand it after almost 10 years of trying to find an appropriate answer to the official Street Fighter cabinet issue. Absolutely no one on the internet has a straight answer. I don't even have a straight anwer. Here is what I think I know after a lot of mis-information about American Capcom cabinets. In a way, I'm not answering your question at all...

Street Fighter -- Has a dedicated. In this case, KLOV is accurate (and before anyone says it, yes. There is a 6 button version and a huge plunger button version that everyone slammed as hard as possible).

Street Fighter 2: The World Warrior -- Going out on a limb here, but I've always believed they came in generic 19 inch Dynamos (the work horse of the arcade business).

Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition -- Supposedly Capcom was not going to sell this one as a kit and force everyone to buy brand new dedicated machines. Operators get pissed. Capcom changes mind and sells as kit (or was it the other way around? been a long time since I heard that story). I am also fairly sure factory produced cabinets were 19 inch Dynamos (unless the cabinet on KLOV is accurate *gasp!*...because I can't recognize that cabinet).

Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting (or Turbo...whatever your pref in naming conventions) -- Capcom starts using 25 inch Red Z-Backs. Love these cabinets. Have 2 of them myself. For being released in such a short period, I see a lot of them at auctions/op wharehouses.

Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers/CPS-2 era -- First big blue 25 inch Capcom cabinets. One version has some similarities to the Z-Back with a smaller marquee space. Another version is taller with the marquee space big enough for an uncut marquee. One version has a huge marquee semi-seperated.

X-Men: Childern of the Atom: This has its own special little cabinet design aside from the other Capcom fighting cabinets (can't find pic). I end up seeing a lot of these cabinets upgraded to Marvel Super Heroes. The top portion of the cabinet looks like a seperate piece. Like it is a tad wider than the base. Hard to explain this one accurately. I really need an image.

From that point on, everything was coming out in the "blue" line up of cabinets.

Then you have some of the newer stuff that came out around the late 90's early 2K's. I don't know what the official word is on these (if Capcom actually shipped games in them). I've seen a ton of Capcom Naomi and late CPS-2 games, however, set up in these cabinets (white, screen seperate from the control panel).

One of the versions of the Big Blue and the newer style cabinets I've seen a lot of Capcom stuff in.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=M&game_id=8636

Hopefully I've set some things clear about this frustrating topic. Or maybe I've made the waters muddier.

You gonna turn that back into a Gauntlet?

[Goblin]

yeah, don't see too many dedicated sf2 cabs. most are conversions. conversions which never should have happened. like a gauntlet turned into sf2.

Mine was a centipede in a previous life. It looks good, and I understand why it was done. I just think it was odd that they needed to redo the control panel to loose the trackball. I would have figured there were others from the era that might be an easier conversion.

[johno590]

I wish I could find free cabs on the side of the roads.

Congrats though.

[rjohnson]

WE have LOTS of Free cabs on the side of the rode... usually by the airport.... they are the yellow edition...

[MoreEbolaForYou]

kelan, yup, thanks for the eye out. The monitor works, and I have a Time Killers (yeah, shitty i know.) board I can put in there. So it was totally worth it. At least as soon as I figure out what is wrong with it.

Satan's Hollow was kind of fucked again last time I was there. It might work again, it might not, so hopefully we'll have some luck.