Street Fighter II Champion Edition Arcade Restoration Project: This blog was created to track my progress on this cabinet's renewal. I am not a professional, this is a learning experience. However, I hope others may be able to use this as a tool to help them with their own arcade adventures. FYI: These updates could be as far as two weeks behind the actual progress of the machine.
Although I'm considering getting a new jamma harness, I'm alright with just soldering the left over wires into the controls.
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| Simple iron from Radio Shack. |
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| Soldered in place. |
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| Need to solder the loose wires to the punch buttons. |
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| Now we're kicking it. |
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| What I started with. |
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| Using a hair dryer to warm up the vinyl. |
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| Paint scrapper to get under the vinyl. |
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| This took roughly 10 minutes. It's going to be a lengthy process, one that I will not be doing in one sitting. |
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| Here is the actual yoke of the monitor. This is extremely dangerous and could be fatal if done incorrectly. I was helped by an electrician using special gloves for this part of the project. He turned the yoke until the image was no longer tilted. |
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| Here are some thumb screws for screen adjustments. |
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| More adjustments thumbscrews (horizontal/vertical position etc.) |
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| It's not perfect but it's much better than it was. I might adjust it at a later time, but I' happy with how it looks now. |
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| Here is the kick harness. I got it from jammaboards.com. The Jamma board by default only supports 3 action commands and 1 continue button. This is why Street Fighter needs to have a harness like this the get the extra kick buttons. It is also why 2 buttons for each player were soldered onto the MK II board. |
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| Here's the MK II board out of the case. |
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| I've found that the wires I desoldered from the main MKII board are also soldered to the control panel as well. |
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| Whoever installed this MK II board decided to solder the extra button wires into the board instead of getting an adapter. |
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| Got the desolderer at Radioshack. |
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| Careful... careful... |
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| Here's how it looks. Might clean it up more if I resell it. |
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| SF2CE board installed. |
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| This is the MK II board. |
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| It has wires soldered into it that I'm going have to address. |
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| Let's try something dangerous until then. |
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| It actually works sound and all. However the picture is tilted and the kick buttons do not work. |
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| It's a Mortal Kombat II cabinet ATM. I found it in Chicago at a some sort of YMCA like facility. |
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