Originally Posted by
Az
Celery maybe you can shed some light on this.
I can across an ad for an arcade cabinet that was a line built for a theater chain. They had no marquee on top, the marquee was underneath the control panel and the whole panel could be removed like one big box. The PCB was also mounted onto the inside of the control panel box.
This looked a bit weird, but by having everything mounted on into a removeable box you could change just that one part and be done, plus it allowed the same cabinet to be switched out with games that had totally different controls.
The point of this meandering story is the cab included 3 boards along with their fancy pants control panels; Street Fighter II, a vertical shmup, and Time Soldiers. The Time Soldiers sticks were regular ball top 8-ways and not rotary sticks.
So, with this were players just stuck with always facing forward? Or is their a dipswitch on the board to allow regular movement controls like they implimented in some of the SNK PSP ports?