Astro City First Cab

[Whippet777]

Astro City Candy Cab in its new home and working like a dream. A huge thanks and shout out to @jerryspaghetti for the cab and his patience with all my newbie questions and CRT discharge fears, great guy to deal with. Also massive thanks to the resident CRT hero @gunblade for fixing up the monitor chassis like its brand new 🙌

 

[Chihiro]

Great first cab

 

[Flyback2021]

Jackpot on the first spin!
Love this Candy cab and you brought from a great seller also.

 

[antray84]

Great cabs, pretty much everything looks good on them. Jerry is sound as well.

 

[jerryspaghetti]

Broke my heart to finally let it go but met this chap in person and it'll be loved!

 

[Max...]

Great first cab

Great last cab too! 😁

 

[Mr20to5]

Fabulous stuff. Now you just need a second so you can have matching cabs with one hori and the other vert....

 

[eccentric-nut]

Lovely, great candy cab! Only had good dealings with Jerry.

 

[Akira99]

Astro City Candy Cab in its new home and working like a dream. A huge thanks and shout out to @jerryspaghetti for the cab and his patience with all my newbie questions and CRT discharge fears, great guy to deal with. Also massive thanks to the resident CRT hero @gunblade for fixing up the monitor chassis like its brand new 🙌

Congrats on a great first cab

 

[Whippet777]

Fabulous stuff. Now you just need a second so you can have matching cabs with one hori and the other vert....

Yesss. The dream! 🙏

 

[Akira99]

Broke my heart to finally let it go but met this chap in person and it'll be loved!

It wll be loved and don't worry mate I'm sure you will get the chance to acquire another Astro City again at some point

 

[Retroman839]

😎
Good job on getting yourself a nice candy cab and getting it all home safe and sound 👍
Yeh it’s a nervous time transporting first cab & só much to learn with monitors etc. só well done for taking the dip, yeh as above have said you’ll be wanting a vertical cab not to Soon , 👍

 

[Whippet777]

😎
Good job on getting yourself a nice candy cab and getting it all home safe and sound 👍
Yeh it’s a nervous time transporting first cab & só much to learn with monitors etc. só well done for taking the dip, yeh as above have said you’ll be wanting a vertical cab not to Soon , 👍View attachment 42405

These look amazing together! 100% need one for vertical. We’re gonna need a bigger house 😂 I have said to my wife this is only the beginning

 

[Retroman839]

These look amazing together! 100% need one for vertical. We’re gonna need a bigger house 😂 I have said to my wife this is only the beginning

Better to be true and upfront honesty is the best policy

 

[Stokers]

The perfect first candy cab

 

[steling1]

I've got the New Astro City variant of this cab, it’s probably my go-to setup for running original arcade boards.


Depending on what you plan to run in it, I highly recommend doing the stereo speaker mod. Out of the box, the cab runs in mono, which is fine for standard JAMMA boards and older titles. But if you're using something with stereo output like a MiSTer or CPS2, which I use often the stereo mod really elevates the audio.

You can also fit a subwoofer in the cab to add some low-end, since the stock speakers are pretty biased toward higher frequencies. If you're interested, here's a link below to the guide I used as a reference for the stereo mod. I didn’t follow it exactly, but it gives a solid idea of the process.

Astro City Stereo Mod

At the end of the day, alot of arcade mods just involve really basic electronics. When I first looked at Stereo modding my Astro City, I figured that I would have to do some really complicated thin…

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[Whippet777]

I've got the New Astro City variant of this cab, it’s probably my go-to setup for running original arcade boards.


Depending on what you plan to run in it, I highly recommend doing the stereo speaker mod. Out of the box, the cab runs in mono, which is fine for standard JAMMA boards and older titles. But if you're using something with stereo output like a MiSTer or CPS2, which I use often the stereo mod really elevates the audio.

You can also fit a subwoofer in the cab to add some low-end, since the stock speakers are pretty biased toward higher frequencies. If you're interested, here's a link below to the guide I used as a reference for the stereo mod. I didn’t follow it exactly, but it gives a solid idea of the process.

Astro City Stereo Mod

At the end of the day, alot of arcade mods just involve really basic electronics. When I first looked at Stereo modding my Astro City, I figured that I would have to do some really complicated thin…

segamadebaddecisions.wordpress.com

Thats great will definitely look into doing that, really appreciate you sending this

 

[Wahoobies]

Nice one, welcome to CandyClub(tm)

What are you running under the hood? I noodled with MisterJAMMIX and the Pi5 based Recalbox Jamma. I still (rarely!) boot the jammix for some fpga'd computers.. apple 2, acorn archimedes, etc.. but 90% of the time it stays in recalbox jamma as a multi-game.

I occasionally throw in metal slug 2/3 neogeo boards too

 

[r-type]

Lovely cab, and I like the alcove it's sat in too! Every time I see a nice candy cab I wonder what I'm doing clinging on to my woodies... Maybe one day I'll change them but then I'll miss them I know it!

Hope it gets lots of love in its new home. It certainly sounds like it will do! - Enjoy!

 

[Whippet777]

Nice one, welcome to CandyClub(tm)

What are you running under the hood? I noodled with MisterJAMMIX and the Pi5 based Recalbox Jamma. I still (rarely!) boot the jammix for some fpga'd computers.. apple 2, acorn archimedes, etc.. but 90% of the time it stays in recalbox jamma as a multi-game.

I occasionally throw in metal slug 2/3 neogeo boards too

Nice! Currently CPS2 x-men vs street fighter board. Yeah thats a good shout. Ah would love to have some neo geo boards, metal slug 3 still the best IMO. Something special about Neogeo maybe because as a kid it was a ridiculous thought to try to own anything Neogeo now at close to 40 i can just about 😂

Stupid question but neogeo boards work fine with standard astro jamma harness?