Well, we picked it up yesterday. It was quite the ride, but we got it here in the end. I'm still none the wiser on what cab this is! It's supplied by M.H.P. Enterprises Ltd., an UK company that dissolved in November 1998, according to the Internet. There's no other branding on it.
The MV-1FZ was stock, as it also has gotten "MHP" written on it, as well as a sticker with the company's old address. The game inside is a nice, legit copy of Super Side Kicks. The arcade cabinet came out of the sellers' local soccer club's canteen, so it's no surprise that game was picked. It does need some attention.
The monitor, which is a Hantarex MTC 9110 (there's a service manual that came with it for the monitor), is a little sick. It's quite blurry, a tiny bit twitchy, there's more whine coming from the monitor than what would be usual for a CRT, and there's a spot where the colours are a bit iffy. This might be fixable by degaussing, because when I looked at the machine at the sellers' parents place, where they had put it for the time being, there was a little spot in the upper part of the screen where the colours were really off, like green being blue. Now that spot moved to the lower part of the screen, and isn't as bad as it was there. I still suspect bad caps and perhaps even a flyback going out. Also, I don't think it tates.
I didn't get keys, I'll email the seller if they maybe still have them and if so can send me them in an envelope, if not, I'll just drill them out and replace them.
There's also no sound, they told me it used to work but suddenly stopped. I'm more suspecting the wiring of the cab, than the Neo board, since I hear no pop or such when I turn the cab on.
The cab has been well used, the control panel has some bubbles going on, the Player 1 and 2 buttons are worn, it has the odd scratch here and there, but hey, I'm not complaining. The buttons are still clicky as are the joysticks.
Only thing that happened to the cab is that sadly there's a chip in the glass that wasn't there when we looked at it there, but I might be able to solve that with one of those car windshield chip resin fix packets.
Still, for €50, like I said, I'm not complaining at all. This should be a fun project, and I can always get other JAMMA boards for other games. As for adding more buttons, I might do that at some point, but since I still kinda suck at games, I can always play easier games with less buttons first, before I move on to other games with more buttons
Here's some photos, I'll make more once I can get the cab opened up.
i wonder if the monitor tates to play vertical games?
