Sega Dino King to Ghouls n' Ghosts conversion

[muddymusic]

I've just finished my Dino King conversion, I've seen a few of these done and been impressed with how nicely they can look as little jamma cabs - about the closest thing you can get to a mini cute for under £300



I had a good set of artwork scans for Ghouls n' Ghosts and wanted to stick with a 1-player game that could work well in a mini dedicated cab so it seemed like a good choice.

I got straight in touch with FrancoB as I knew he was working on some very nice conversions to see if he could make new perspex for me. What I was aiming for was the bezel & control panel in 2 pieces each, so I could sandwich artwork between them. A lot of work, but he agreed to 'put them in the queue'

All the hardware removed and tested to make sure a CPS board would actually fit.


All side art removed


Switcher fitted, tapping 240v from the line filter


Loom fitted


Video wiring done so for the first time I could fire up the cab and see the game. Lovely monitors in these cabs for sure.


I set about making some adjustments to the art to make it fit the cab, and wanted to add a rigid topper similar to the original one.

Printed pieces arrived and looked great!

Side Art:


Topper:


Control Panel Overlay:


Bezel:


Franco sent some pics of the finished plastics, my he's good!



Today I got the plastics and some buttons & the stick I was waiting on so was able to finish the cab after many months.

Finished control panel:


Bezel:


And here's the finished cab in all its glory. I'm really pleased with how it turned out, I tried not to cut any corners and make it as good as I could and I hope that shows.
Thank you again Franco for the super plastic work





Get a real sense of the size of it against these midi uprights!


Some detail shots:

[IDCHAPPY]

Seeing that pic reminds me I have to get some rotary stick action .
Great work as Olways (did you see what I did there )

[wonderbanana]

That is glorious!

[cools]

Lovely Exactly the same kind of thing I want to do one day but with a TNZS theme, or maybe Fantasy Zone. Not too sure about how the bezel and topper have come out compared to a Dino/Mushi style, but cool nonetheless.

[meyerli]

That's really well done! Very clean work
I would just prefer some bigger sidearts.

[Jan]

wow !

[andygeezer]

I'd like to see lots of game specific conversion.

They also fit anywhere.

Guess demand is going to go up now.

[supergoose]

That's a thing of beauty.

[emphatic]

That is spectacular! I would've added a Player 2 start button though, as it's an alternating 2 player game.

[baddy]

Brilliant work, this will not help people's quest for cheap mini cabs

[geotrig]

excellent stuff dude ,love the front bezel and cp i do think the side lets it down ever so slightly(needs a bit more if you know what i mean) but really **** top notch job dude

[TadCool]

Looks unbelievably good!

The topper bothers me a little bit, it's breaking the art style consistency, and, you know, it's a sin.

I'm in love, really. Superb job. Oh, and congrats to Franco and his mad skills too.

[gargoyle67]

Fantastic work, totally agree about the sides, They would have looked 100% better if he'd have cut out the artwork from the white background, But meh your not gonna see them in between two cabs anyhow.
Agree about the topper doesn't fit the art style as pointed out already, From the PSP version isn't it ?

[muddymusic]

Indeed the topper isn't from the arcade version but I really like the artwork on it. I have an alternate topper with the same graphic as the side art as well.

[mission65]

Very nice job, I too think the cp looks awesome

[instant_classic]

I knew I should have pm'd andy as soon as I saw the ad go live the other day!!
That looks awesome....I really want to do a final fight theme mini cab.

Where did you have the artwork printed??

[codecrank]

love it

[g4rou]

WOW

[theory]

Beautiful and nice quality finish.

[muddymusic]

I knew I should have pm'd andy as soon as I saw the ad go live the other day!!
That looks awesome....I really want to do a final fight theme mini cab.

Where did you have the artwork printed??

Final fight was on my list of potential games to do, all the artwork is easily available. I wanted to stick with a 1-player game though. In the end it came down to GnG, Shinobi, or Mr. Driller.
What I really wanted to do was a Rainbow Islands one, but it would have involved creating ALL the art from scratch and I'd never have finished it.
Artwork was done at colour graphics, all of it is adhesive vinyl with the exception of the topper.