Thanks Alby! You are far too kind. I really appreciate the compliments and sorry for not replying back sooner! She's my first arcade machine so I'm taking a lot of pride in her. Also thank you for the tips on the multi-boards, I'm definitely going to look into both of those! Honestly the only thing that prevents the cabinet from being a homerun is that the plastic covering only went so far up on the control panel and a strip of it at the top has sustained what I can only imagine is sun damage, you can see it in the picture. Any ideas how I could get that off? I'm thinking a new vinyl overlay for the control pad might be the only option. Thanks again!

Sweet! I have that same cabinet. How is that game box? Is the emulation good?

Yep, I actually saw your YouTube video on it, yours is in really good shape! The Gamebox is fun for sure and I'd give its emulation capabilities a 7 out of 10. Granted they've made newer Gameboxes since, this is one of the oldest "Aldine" Gameboxes, it's the 2008 450-in-1 model that runs on a DOS backend. The newer ones shipped with better hardware and now use Win2000 as the back end OS. I'd say 60% of the games run just like you'd want them to, another 30% are what I'd call 'playable', and the remaining 10% are unplayable due to lag on the Gamebox 450-in-1's hardware. It's not perfect, but enough of the great games on it work well enough to make this old Gamebox fun and still worth while.

Hi All,

Just wanted to officially introduce myself. I'm a gamer (console, arcade, tabletop, you name it) from Western PA and I joined the forums close to a month ago looking for some advice on how to properly move my first cabinet ever - a Street Fighter 2 3-KOAM Model K3. Many thanks to alby13 for being a huge help in that thread. Well I got that lovely beast into my home (relatively) safe and sound and she's up and running. It's JAMMA standard and is currently running a 450-in-1 Gamebox. As much as I'd love this to be a dedicated SF2:CE cab with the real PCB, I just don't have the floor space for multiple cabs right now and I enjoy the variety the Gamebox affords.

I've included some pictures of the cab below, basically what it looked like when I got it home and what it looks like now that I've dropped in an original 1992 marquee and put on the reproduction side-art. It still needs some paint and wood work done to it but that'll be more down the line. For being 22 years old with no restoration (that I'm aware of) ever done to it, she's not looking too shabby 

Glad to be here on the forums and big ups to John from John's Arcade - love the YouTube channel, man!

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Godfather - Haha, doesn't sound like a half bad idea. I've seen a surprising amount of SF2 posts on this board!

Alby - Thanks again for all the help. Wanted to let you know we got it home safe and sound! I'm actually going to officially introduce myself in the newbie forum and post some pictures of the cab.

Hey alby, much respect and totally understood. Nothing "fully" replaces the arcade hardware, all emulation can do is get fairly close for some games. Huge SF fanatic here too, been playing since I was 6 years old. As much as it may be cringe-worthy to hear, I'm sure I'll just adjust to the input lag at some point. Heck, I played SSF4:AE on the XBox 360 online with a wireless controller for long enough, so I have pretty good experience with adapting to awful lag/framerate issues, haha. Thanks again!

Thanks Alby! I greatly appreciate the simple breakdown of it all and for the quick reply. I'll have him check it to see if the monitor wiggles at all (can't believe I didn't check that while I was there  ). I'm in the Pittsburgh, PA area and I'm getting the cab for $500. To be clear, the arcade no longer has a SF 2: Champion Edition board in it, it's been swapped out with a 450 in 1 JAMMA GameBox. From what I understand from the original owner, he got the cabinet with a hacked SF 2: Rainbow Edition board which was fun for a short period of time, but quickly wore out its welcome. Considering the 450 in 1 GameBox ran all the SF games at an arcade perfect framerate along with so many other games (coupled with a really easy install on a JAMMA board) the choice to switch was pretty clear for the owner. And since I only have room for one cab right now, the variety the GameBox provides made it a no-brainer for me.

Downsides to the cabinet are that there's no marquee with it and the cabinet didn't have side art. From what I understand though, side art was optional even on these OEM Dynamo SF 2: Champion Edition arcade cabs, so I'm not too broken up about it. Other than that there's only one small chip in the wood near the bottom (it's a chip fortunately, not rot). I ordered an original marquee for the cab on eBay along with some really well done reproduction side art and both should be in soon! I'll upload some photos of the cab as soon as I get it into the apartment, and then some progress photos once I get the new marquee installed in the cab and apply the side art. Also, somebody painted the front bottom of the cab black so I'm going to fully strip that with a belt sander and replace it with the original red color. Granted that'll be a little bit down the road but hey, nothing is sexier than an all red cab - I'm looking at you NeoGeo MVS  ;)

Hi All,

New watcher of John's Arcade and first time forum poster here! So this Saturday I will be purchasing a red Dynamo Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition cabinet from a guy about 30 minutes away. Really excited about the close proximity and the price is right. It's my first arcade cab but knowing a thing or two about mobos I was able to examine the boards/chipsets and everything looks to be in working order. I also playtested it of course, and it runs like a champ.

The one thing I'm unsure on is how to ensure the monitor is securely mounted - it might even be original to the cab. Could someone let me know what exactly I should be looking for to ensure that the monitor is properly secured in the cab? I'm going to be transporting this cabinet myself with it covered in furniture pads and bubble wrap, ratchet strapped down, laying down on its back in a cargo van. But if the monitor comes loose, all the furniture pads and bubble wrap in the world won't help.

Here are all the photos of the monitor/harness I was able to get the owner to put up. Let me know if you see any concerns here. Specifically I have concerns with the last photo. Should there be nuts on the screws coming out the very back of the harness? Or, with the pieces of wood there on the top and bottom of the monitor do I basically have nothing to worry about? Sorry in advance for being so clueless, I'm just a first time arcade machine buyer and this machine is going to be my entry into the hobby and restoration of arcade machines.

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Thanks for any help anyone here can provide!