12-10-2023, 11:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2023, 06:51 PM by Um Jamma Yammy.)
Monitor frame arrived!
We got a NEOTEC NT-500DXP7 monitor frame! Bought as a "Universal Wells Gardener Style 27" Monitor Frame" and ID'd from the following tags,
Attached the manual for the monitor though it says nothing about the frame, just has some chassis schematics and mentions a Tube Manufacturer for DXP7 model. From what I found, the tube that was in this was also a 27" flat tube with a digital chassis that was also a multi-sync.
Found a picture of the NT-500DXP7
1_005a139dfd67ff08d6984125c1606592.jpg (Size: 29.57 KB / Downloads: 76)
During KITHMAS-Eve, I got the monitor frame assembled. Not going to load the tube until the cab arrives, just to not have to stow an open frame CRT (nowhere to store that) but we're all set for it!
Another big milestone, we got in the levers and buttons! As mentioned in an earlier post, rocking the following:
Crown CWL-309MJ-KMS-ST35 Levers
Crown/Samducksa SDB-202 MX 30MM Screw In Buttons
Wired in EIE I/O and testing it out on the PS246,
The controls are fantastic. The spacing of the buttons and sticks are PERFECT, you can both sit side by side, directly facing forward, nobody at an angle. This thing is STURDY too. Considering how the monitor sat so much lower and was still great, I can't even imagine getting this thing loaded onto the cab.
This thing saw a LOT of play. Just as it is.
And the impossible has happened..! This all started with a stomach ache inducing hunt (especially the thought of never getting one of these) for the SC2 CPO.
So far the only photo I can find of an old NOS CPO is this,
And sadly the only person who got one (most likely that one) had scanned it, done restoration of it (looks to be just some color correction but could of been more) and that's it. Private collection, not available.
In this hunt found some cool stuff, so you have the overlay shown above. Then there is a decal kit. It really took a lot of digging to find, but found a picture of a cab using the entire decal kit that went along with it!
You can see the circle upper side art and the big side art down at the bottom. I've seen people stick the circular one on the control panel like this, to fill the big empty ocean area on a Dynamo Showcase (The actual "Showcase", it's a Band-Aid situation lol)
Nice move. That big open area is kinda lame left empty.. With those images, among some others to try and figure out the best details we could , enlisted some help of a very talented local artist, the guy who actually did my Egret II and NEO 29 arcade sticks, to re-create this freaking CPO for us.. Only with ours, we have a special little addition! Unoriginal and better, the Araiguma way, we're rocking the Soul Calibur II logo right in the bottom center of the panel!
I got some dimensions together, along with the print area for the shop who is going to run us the CPO on polycarbonate coated 3M air-egress vinyl (stuff on the Dynamo HS-1 (currently CE all over it), and then the full panel dimensions so he could take a photo of it, and do all his awesome magic and actually scale the thing to know where to place the logo!
And then he took the full panel face dimensions so he could take a photo of another panel, and do all his awesome magic and actually scale the thing down to know where everything needed to go!
So this is a rough idea of what our panel will look like:
Right now the plan is to use button 3 and 6 knockouts so we have some different layout options. We've got a box of button hole plugs that came with some other cabs to use.
Soul Calibur 2
Tekken Tag
Tekken
As for the instruction space between the two memory card readers, that is something he is open to the in the future, a scan is best but could re-draw the entire thing if we had a good enough image. Emailed to inquire on the size of the Japanese ones, thinking we can throw that there in the mean time.
And this is where things currently are! Need to get the marquee ordered next, but not till the CPO order goes through.
Here is for reference, a couple of the original advertisements for this machine:
Also attached, the Tekken 5 Cabinet Adjustment Manual
We got a NEOTEC NT-500DXP7 monitor frame! Bought as a "Universal Wells Gardener Style 27" Monitor Frame" and ID'd from the following tags,
Attached the manual for the monitor though it says nothing about the frame, just has some chassis schematics and mentions a Tube Manufacturer for DXP7 model. From what I found, the tube that was in this was also a 27" flat tube with a digital chassis that was also a multi-sync.
Found a picture of the NT-500DXP7
1_005a139dfd67ff08d6984125c1606592.jpg (Size: 29.57 KB / Downloads: 76)
During KITHMAS-Eve, I got the monitor frame assembled. Not going to load the tube until the cab arrives, just to not have to stow an open frame CRT (nowhere to store that) but we're all set for it!
Another big milestone, we got in the levers and buttons! As mentioned in an earlier post, rocking the following:
Crown CWL-309MJ-KMS-ST35 Levers
Crown/Samducksa SDB-202 MX 30MM Screw In Buttons
Wired in EIE I/O and testing it out on the PS246,
The controls are fantastic. The spacing of the buttons and sticks are PERFECT, you can both sit side by side, directly facing forward, nobody at an angle. This thing is STURDY too. Considering how the monitor sat so much lower and was still great, I can't even imagine getting this thing loaded onto the cab.
This thing saw a LOT of play. Just as it is.
And the impossible has happened..! This all started with a stomach ache inducing hunt (especially the thought of never getting one of these) for the SC2 CPO.
So far the only photo I can find of an old NOS CPO is this,
And sadly the only person who got one (most likely that one) had scanned it, done restoration of it (looks to be just some color correction but could of been more) and that's it. Private collection, not available.
In this hunt found some cool stuff, so you have the overlay shown above. Then there is a decal kit. It really took a lot of digging to find, but found a picture of a cab using the entire decal kit that went along with it!
You can see the circle upper side art and the big side art down at the bottom. I've seen people stick the circular one on the control panel like this, to fill the big empty ocean area on a Dynamo Showcase (The actual "Showcase", it's a Band-Aid situation lol)
Nice move. That big open area is kinda lame left empty.. With those images, among some others to try and figure out the best details we could , enlisted some help of a very talented local artist, the guy who actually did my Egret II and NEO 29 arcade sticks, to re-create this freaking CPO for us.. Only with ours, we have a special little addition! Unoriginal and better, the Araiguma way, we're rocking the Soul Calibur II logo right in the bottom center of the panel!
I got some dimensions together, along with the print area for the shop who is going to run us the CPO on polycarbonate coated 3M air-egress vinyl (stuff on the Dynamo HS-1 (currently CE all over it), and then the full panel dimensions so he could take a photo of it, and do all his awesome magic and actually scale the thing to know where to place the logo!
And then he took the full panel face dimensions so he could take a photo of another panel, and do all his awesome magic and actually scale the thing down to know where everything needed to go!
So this is a rough idea of what our panel will look like:
Right now the plan is to use button 3 and 6 knockouts so we have some different layout options. We've got a box of button hole plugs that came with some other cabs to use.
Soul Calibur 2
Tekken Tag
Tekken
As for the instruction space between the two memory card readers, that is something he is open to the in the future, a scan is best but could re-draw the entire thing if we had a good enough image. Emailed to inquire on the size of the Japanese ones, thinking we can throw that there in the mean time.
And this is where things currently are! Need to get the marquee ordered next, but not till the CPO order goes through.
Here is for reference, a couple of the original advertisements for this machine:
Also attached, the Tekken 5 Cabinet Adjustment Manual
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