NENDO
March 18, 2016, 5:06am
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Lmao. Didn’t expect the perp to actually be an SRK member let alone to incriminate himself for such a heinous crime. Second Degree Arcade Stick Slaughter is no laughing matter.
RageousX:
el_Principe:
What I find interesting is that they bought different colored Sanwa buttons, a Bat Top and adapter, and cared enough about 6-button layout to eliminate the PPP/KKK buttons. So they must have been competitive…right?
And yet whoever it was decided to desecrate the stick to such a level. Intriguing!
If you look closely at the bottom panel photo, you’ll see it was originally an MvC2 stick. Those came with yellow on the main six and white on the 7/8, so he pulled two yellows out of the 2K 3K slots and replaced them with white. You can also see the layout written on the strip of brown tape (LB and RB in 3P and 3K, the unusually standard layout for the MvC2 TE). Were I a betting man, I’d say he played the shit out of Marvel 2. LP HP A1 on the top, LK HK A2 on the bottom. The buttons I threw out had shit tons of grime in between the cracks… definitely from hours of gameplay, not dust-gathering. He may have even expected to have white correspond to A1 A2 (started playing MvC3?) at one point, but the original setup on the tape is definitely MvC2.
Taking a closer look at my morning after work, the left side (magic eraser only) is slightly dulled but only an OCD level of recognition, the right side (which was exposed to nail polish remover is a bit more noticeably dulled when compared side by side with a clean TE:
http://i.imgur.com/epFQgMg.jpg
@ed1371 , you mentioned plastic polish? It could probably use a little for touch-up.
I’ll scrub down the other parts this evening after I get back from work and post the results. Will dedicate my turbo panel attempt to @Feargus001100 .
Like I mentioned before, this is going to basically be an RJ-45 monster for a classic arcade pal. I’m having him ship me a box of dead controllers for each of his systems, and I’ve drudged up [this old SRK thread](RJ-45 Multi Console Cthulhu Arcade Stick Tutorial Ver.2 for info on the pinouts for everything. I’ll even go the extra mile and cap 'em with NE8MCs. I’ve never ventured into that territory before (all of my projects for people have been your basic whatever-the-current-gen dual-mod), but I’m a sysadmin/network engineer by day, and have all the crimping/multimeter tools and knowhow to figure it out. I honestly didn’t intend to even attempt refurbishing this stick at all. It was my wife who found it at a thrift store and sent me pictures, and I immediately told her “ugh fucking ruined”… before realizing that the cable door was probably intact and it was worth $6 just for that. I made a Blanka-themed stick for another pal a couple months ago, but the TE base I got for it had a broken one. Once I got this at home, I realized it was perfectly functional and worth the effort to refurbish. Plus it makes for a really fun story.
When you say it was originally a MvC2 stick. I never felt so angry before. How could this motherfucker, the defacer, deface one of my favorite sticks of all time? This man needs a beating to find out what happens when you deface true art.