Street Fighter 2 Side Art Application

I put some side art on my SF2 cab.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Street
• Fighter
• Mame
• cabinet
• artwork
• side
• art
• sideart
• diy
• electronics
• mamemarquees
• vinyl
• sticker
• sf2

[wowdave85]

even if it came with the kit i would have choose not to use it.It cheapens its whole look itd be better just as black or with a huge poster pasted on etc.

Still the cab seems cool though

[gamehulk]

@wowdave85 Sideart was an important part of the cabinet back then and it was my intention to make this cabinet genuine to the original kits I saw back in the day. Admittedly this is the cheeziest, cheapest way to do sideart... a vinyl sticker? Please. In my day it was a 2 color stencil with tons of overspray that didn't even come close to looking like the original game! :-P

I have seen some good cabinets with plain black sides. Laminate is the way to go if you want that clean look though.

[kenneeckx]

man, that's ugly! What a nice cab! But with that side art you just made it look like a fake.

It looks like you just took an old poster and glued it onto your cab.

I think it's realy a pitty, cause the rest of your cab looks more than awesome!!!

[gamehulk]

Funny, because the Street Fighter 2 install kit from Capcom came with that same exact "poster" with instructions on installing it on the sides. You're so right, I wonder why Capcom chose to include that fake old poster in their conversion kits? I'll immediately grab a putty knife and will begin stripping the old gluey poster off the side of my machine. Thank you.

In all seriousness, I wanted my cab to be authentic. It would look like crap with anything else on the sides.

[kenneeckx]

Well, that was my opinion...

I'm not saying this isn't the authentic look of the cab, I wouldn't know...

But to be honest, if it was my cab I would give it a sideart that would cover most of the side, just because I feel that looks cool.

Anyways, much credit for your cab!

[gamehulk]

Yeah I know what you mean. The sideart is cheap that came with SF2. Nicer artwork will be something when I build my next one.

[gamehulk]

@guitarbridgecleaner but I don't have a website

[mungrin]

@gamehulk 

[xonejessex]

Pretty cool man, I'm working on a SF II Cab myself, where did you get the side art?

[nickynooch]

Thanks for posting the vid. Applying my sideart today.

[forest2341]

@gamehulk Nah, you did a great job.

[jz040488]

thanks for the help man :) installing my stuff right now and this was superhelpful. appreciated

[AnotherKoop]

Many thanks for the tips. I am planning some for a pinball cabinet.

[KungFuChess]

nice! i've been wanting to do a mame street fighter II cab