Cab question.

After talking to few people about buying candy cabs and others, i decided that id rather build my own. living in the midwest, prices for shipping are a little steep for me. and so far its been going great. been a lot of fun and im learning quite a bit. board works fine, monitor is new and works great. the cab still needs tweaks in the aesthetic dept but overall im pleased with the results.

my question is regarding speakers. what kind should i use? and is there anything special i need to know when connecting them. its an UMK3 board, i understand it broadcasts mono. but is there anything special i need to know connecting 2 speakers to this board? i bought a set of pc speakers, i thought it would be a cool idea to be able to hook up an ipod if i ever got sick of the mood music UMK3 puts out. but if these are unusable id like to know.

any help anyone can give me will be appreciated!

I think you need to use speakers with certain OHM..(4-8ohm)

Check the Boards Manual for the Speaker Ohm..
If you don''t have it it may be located here.
http://www.crazykong.com/

Thanks.

couldn't find the info in the manual. but a couple of searches led me to a few guides telling me to use an 8 ohm speaker. not to use 4 ohms because it could could cause unwanted stress to your soundboard. in any event, i appreciate the help. i have a volt meter, ill check what i have. if not ill go back to square one.

thanks!

whatever you buy, make sure they are shielded

FOK said:

couldn't find the info in the manual. but a couple of searches led me to a few guides telling me to use an 8 ohm speaker. not to use 4 ohms because it could could cause unwanted stress to your soundboard. in any event, i appreciate the help. i have a volt meter, ill check what i have. if not ill go back to square one.

thanks!

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It really makes no difference, any mvs boards audio output stage will happily (and is designed) to run in to any load above 4 ohms. Volume may be a bit low above 16

Don't know how far along you are on building your machine, but I searched Namco's arcade sale page and looking in Iowa I found one candy cab for sale.

05200
MC-RAIDEN JET FIGHTER
URV/CONV
$299.00
SIOUX CITY, IA
(712) 276-2680

The MC means it's a mini-cab, I bought one near me and it was an Exceleena 2. Give them a call and see if it's still available, sometimes the website is slow.

Scott

ive called the namco number three times with no call back. maybe i should just drive down there and check it out myself. thanks for the heads up man.

edit: got through right after posting this, sold. but sill thank you.

Yea, sucks that they don't update their page very often. Hope you get your cab looking the way you want it!

cab turnout

well this is how it came out...





im always so jealous of the cabs posted on this site. i know its not as nice as some candies i see, but im happy with the way it turned out.

shame my board died, wanted to get a pic with it turned on for everyone. but you get the idea.

I'm glad things turned out well for you. So do you have to drill the holes for the controls? I recommend going with the 6-button playout so you can play other fighting games like all the street fighters or my favorite killer instinct but if you want to go with the 4-button neo geo layout thats cool, lots of luck and you'll find lots of useful help here on the boards.

That cab is looking good man. Nice work!

Here is a link to a MVS overlay on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/SNK-Neo-Geo-ori...ryZ13718QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem