Street Fighter II Arcade Machine Repair
This repair is about a Street fighter II arcade machine I bought at a yard sale.
The Monitor was white when I powered it up. First thing I did was take the PCB out of the cabinet and check over it.
I noticed that the edge connector needed a clean. So I cleaned the edge connector and sprayed the socket with Deoxit.
I reassemble and tested it.
I found out that 6 buttons for each player are needed for this game and this only had 3 buttons per player.
I did some research and found that The Kick harness is missing so I ordered one from e-bay.
Turned out to be the wrong one. So I found some documentation pertaining to this SFII pcb.
So I decided to make my own version of a Kick harness.
A friend gave me two of these DB9 breakout boards. So went work and made my Kick harness.
Next thing to do is make a new control panel.
I have a friend who has a milling machine to drill some more holes in the panel . I forgot to take photo of after. I also installed all new button’s in the refurbished panel.
I rewired the control panel and connected the kick harness. The multi coloured cable is the kick harness. Also drilled holes for the player buttons.
I got some original graphics printed for the marque and surrounding the monitor.
This article was contributed by Lee Davey from Hobart Tasmania Australia. He has been doing repairs on electronics and PC’s for around 30 years.
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Tayo
October 8, 2022 at 8:03 am
Very cool restoration Lee. I would have taken of look at that that PCB and put it right back! Looks like something straight out of Sputnik 1! Thankfully you didn't get intimidated (or at least you didn't let it stop you) and you brought this wonderful arcade back to life. May it give you and future players many more years of JOY.
Mark
October 8, 2022 at 8:41 am
Well done Lee! Are you coping the rain like we are in NSW?
Lee
October 9, 2022 at 9:43 am
Not as much as you are mark.
Parasuraman S
October 8, 2022 at 8:59 am
Vow! That was a never giving up effort and congratulations on your success! It is definitely inspirational and appreciable! Very innovative tricks applied with professional perfection! Hat's off!
Waleed Rishmawi
October 8, 2022 at 1:37 pm
good job on the repair. that is worth the fixing. have a blessed day
Yogesh Panchal
October 8, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Good JOB!Lee
Albert van Bemmelen
October 8, 2022 at 4:38 pm
Great job Lee! I always liked the idea to become an Arcade repair engineer myself, but those jobs never became available. Playing games is what got me into computers after radio got me started in electronics. But nowadays I only fix and collect older home computers since they do not take up so much of my living space.
Mathew Charles karonga
October 9, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Congratulations on your accomplishment.
Well done and thinks for sharing.