Candy Dino King Cab to Mini Candy Neo-Geo Custom JAMMA

[Escape-To-88]

Pretty much final now. Bezel printed direct to perspex and all put together. Might still light the mini-mini-marquees up, might not.



With an amazing level of help of the ever-awesome Flinnster over on UKVAC, cleaned, stripped and prepared my small Candy for JAMMA Just have to wire the mains in, the sound and set-up the hacked Pi2Jamma

[Colin]

What's the plan mate, a custom made CP???

[Escape-To-88]

Yup, indeed. Will probably base it on the Neo Candy 19/25 cabs, along with the artwork: side and MVS-4 header. Made this rough mock-up of the CPO:

[Colin]

Ah, hence the font stuff! This should be awesome, I'll look forward to seeing it done. What sort of dimensions are we looking at here?

[Escape-To-88]

They're tiny cabs, about 120cm high and 44cm wide. They have a lovely 14" CRT inside

[zipper]

Very nice!

[Escape-To-88]

Very nice!

Getting there mate!

[mmmonkey]

I love that photo of the main cab led on the on carpet with the guts all around it and spreading further and further. Awesome project :-)

[QualityChimp]

This is great!
Keep us updated.
My son would be gutted at the loss of a Dino King cab though, he loves that game!

[Asura]

My son would be gutted at the loss of a Dino King cab though, he loves that game!

I've literally JUST noticed that the text on marquee is in English! Is this over in the UK these days? I remember seeing loads of these little cabs in Japan; the kids loved them.

[Escape-To-88]

I've literally JUST noticed that the text on marquee is in English! Is this over in the UK these days? I remember seeing loads of these little cabs in Japan; the kids loved them.

Japanese built, but a lot ended up in the UK, quite a few in skips I think when the operators started to not make as much

[Asura]

Japanese built, but a lot ended up in the UK, quite a few in skips I think when the operators started to not make as much

That's sad; I would love one of those to do a similar project to your own.

[QualityChimp]

Yeah, they've been here for years.
Maybe you missed them because they're below eye-level?
At Butlin's, there were kids with big piles of cards and going frantic when the arcade guy filled it up again!

There are a bunch of other games like beetles and sharks.

[fuse]

I've seen a lot of these done before (same with the 'Love and Berry' cabs too) - really like them as single-player JAMMA machines. Looking forward to seeing this all finished!

[Asura]

Yeah, they've been here for years.
Maybe you missed them because they're below eye-level?

In seriousness, it's mainly because I pretty much avoid arcades these days in the UK. They just seem to be filled with big versions of mobile phone games, like cinema-screen versions of Flappy Bird and Crossy Road.