Building a japanese cab for vertical shmups

clamchowder01 · Post by **clamchowder01** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:09 am

What are some good sites that discuss how to build one? What are the basics? Thanks!

antron · Post by **antron** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:22 am

your post really doesn't make sense. candy cabs are made of metal, with lots of curved surfaces.

that being said, one person did manage to do it (out of wood!):
http://himuragames.suddenlaunch3.com/in ... 1143535658

clamchowder01 · Post by **clamchowder01** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:05 am

I guess I didn't word it correctly. How do you put together a japanese arcade? I am a total newb to arcade parts and terminology. I know japanese arcade machines use sanwa parts usually and that's about all I know. I want to put together an japanese arcade machine for like ketsui, raiden dx etc...

I was wondering, if you but a vertical arcade monitor, can u use it for any vertical shooter game?

SuperPang · Post by **SuperPang** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:18 am

clamchowder01 wrote:How do you put together a japanese arcade?

Become Japanese?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:31 pm

just buy one.

google BYOAC and check the pics there to see what happens when people try to build arcade machines

antron · Post by **antron** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:57 pm

clamchowder01 wrote:I guess I didn't word it correctly. How do you put together a japanese arcade? I am a total newb to arcade parts and terminology. I know japanese arcade machines use sanwa parts usually and that's about all I know. I want to put together an japanese arcade machine for like ketsui, raiden dx etc...

I was wondering, if you but a vertical arcade monitor, can u use it for any vertical shooter game?

read up on the JAMMA standard

pcb_revival · Post by **pcb_revival** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:02 pm

As sven666 stated the easiest and quickest way is to buy one.

Where are you located?

Otherwise http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/

Anyone have the link for that French language forum and the homemade Egret copy.

Make sure to have a look at SuperPangs http://www.arcadeotaku.com/forum/ and the gallery of ***** so to avoid fk ups.

No such thing as a Vertical / Horizontal monitor they are the same, just depends how you mount it.

antron wrote:your post really doesn't make sense. candy cabs are made of metal, with lots of curved surfaces.

Think you will find the majority are abs plastic.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:36 pm

I recently saw a picture of what someone claimed to be a French cabinet. It looked sort of Japanese-styled but made out of wood.

It was kind of cool, actually -- maybe that's what you want to do (and does anyone actually know what I'm talking about here)?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:36 pm

pcb_revival wrote: No such thing as a Vertical / Horizontal monitor they are the same, just depends how you mount it.

nonono you have to buy a dedicated vertical monitor, a horisontal one wont do, you get black borders!!

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:51 pm

sven666 wrote:
pcb_revival wrote: No such thing as a Vertical / Horizontal monitor they are the same, just depends how you mount it.
nonono you have to buy a dedicated vertical monitor, a horisontal one wont do, you get black borders!!

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:30 pm

sven666 wrote:
pcb_revival wrote: No such thing as a Vertical / Horizontal monitor they are the same, just depends how you mount it.
nonono you have to buy a dedicated vertical monitor, a horisontal one wont do, you get black borders!!

You crack me up, sven. Lmao. ^_~

For clamchowder01,

If you decide to go with a pre-fabricated Japanese candy cabinet instead of the DIY method, a Taito Egret II cabinet would be your best bet due to the easy of rotating the 29" Nanao arcade monitor to either horizontal or vertical mode. Easy as pie. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 7:33 pm

sven666 wrote:
pcb_revival wrote: No such thing as a Vertical / Horizontal monitor they are the same, just depends how you mount it.
nonono you have to buy a dedicated vertical monitor, a horisontal one wont do, you get black borders!!

Yeah, some idiot told me I could just turn my horizontal monitor 90 degrees, but then I had black bars AND the picture was sideways!

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:41 am

antron wrote:your post really doesn't make sense. candy cabs are made of metal, with lots of curved surfaces.

Most japanese candy cabs are molded fiberglass with a metal frame.

antron wrote:that being said, one person did manage to do it (out of wood!):
http://himuragames.suddenlaunch3.com/in ... 1143535658

WOW I haven't seen that forum in a long time. I still see my post under player projects from Dec 2004 when I first got my exceleena.

clamchowder01 · Post by **clamchowder01** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:15 am

Hey guys

Thanks for the replies!

I live in Sacramento and there are no arcades with Japanese cabs here.

I want to know what vertical monitor is compatible with what games. For me, I really want a monitor that supports many games. Will a monitor that supports Ketsui support like raiden fighters or like raiden dx?

antron · Post by **antron** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:00 am

there is no vertical or horizontal type monitor. they are the same, just in different orientations.

monitors come in different resolutions (frequencies)

two are low res (15kHz) and high res (VGA).

the games you mention are low res.

antron · Post by **antron** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:03 am

Dave_K. wrote:
antron wrote:candy cabs are made of metal, with lots of curved surfaces.
Most japanese candy cabs are molded fiberglass with a metal frame.

I retract. Top quality candy cabs, like an Egret 29, are made of metal

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:08 am

antron wrote:I retract. Top quality candy cabs, like an Egret 29, are made of metal

Haha!

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:48 pm

Yep, those beautiful Taito Egret II cabinets go for top dollar in the USA. ^_~

Say, is that Sacramento, CA that you mention of, clamchowder01?

Matsu of Southern California sells them Egret II cabs if you're interested in one. He can also arrange shipping for one or two if it needed be.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:24 pm

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:Matsu of Southern California sells them Egret II cabs if you're interested in one. He can also arrange shipping for one or two if it needed be.

I don't think Matsu is going to be getting any more Egret II cabinets.

Darknb · Post by **Darknb** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:56 am

I see alot of people recommend the Egret II to people and I am saving up money to get into cave pcbs. What exactly is the reason to get an Egret II over others? Is it the best pirce to quality ratio or is it really the highest quality candy cab for vertical shooters? Would you recommend any others?

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:30 am

EGRET II has a very nice low res monitor (NANAO 9) and a superb screen rotation mechanism, in case you would like to run a vertical game. It's quite easy to put a subwoofer into it if you like as well.

See here: http://www.zax.com.au/egret2.html

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:09 pm

emphatic wrote:EGRET II has a very nice low res monitor (NANAO 9) and a superb screen rotation mechanism, in case you would like to run a vertical game. It's quite easy to put a subwoofer into it if you like as well.

See here: http://www.zax.com.au/egret2.html

I recall some cool early 1980's arcade game cabinets like the classic color vector based Atari Games produced Space Duel cabinet had a cool built-in subwoofer for those booming & thunderous explosion sound effects, especially when your fightercraft explodes as well. Even Bally Midway's Tron arcade cabinet, had a subwoofer placed inside some of them as well, perfectly compliments playing the Tank/Recognizer stages with the ambient background sound effects. Awesome stuff indeed. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~