Amuzy Wanwan Dash cabinet to Splatterhouse conversion

I recently picked up an Amuzy Wanwan Dash cabinet from the For Girls series. I tossed around a few conversion ideas and ultimately settled on my favorite game, Splatterhouse.

I didn't think to take a picture before I started but it looked similar to this but green.



Here's mine


The cab was a little banged up in shipping and needed some bondo work.




I got the bondo done and painted all the metal parts black. I gave everything the old rattle can special.





While that was drying I worked up a marquee/CPO in Illustrator. Since the current plexi is reverse printed with the Amuzy art I'm going to get it printed on laminated CPO vinyl and slap it over the top to cover the existing art.


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This is what I came up with. Here's a test print on paper. I need to adjust the red monitor border and I'm thinking I'll leave the CPO black since I'm using red buttons and a red ball top. With the drips it looks a bit too busy.

For the white sides I found some cheap black woodgrain contact paper on Amazon. I figured the woodgrain would fit the theme pretty well. The contact paper is absolute garbage but it came out great.

Next up is wiring it for jamma. The Amuzy system looks pretty neat but it's got to go. I wonder if there are any carts that aren't children's games.





I didn't realize how small this thing is and there's no way I can fit a full size System 1 PCB in there.

It looks like that lower right chamber might work to hold it vertically if I cut the shelf, but it's a few inches too shallow.

Since this is for fun and I'm not overly concerned with keeping this original, I'm going to finish wiring it for jamma and put a Jamma RPicade board in it.

The CRT colors look great but is has some heavy Amuzy burn.

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The CRT



I'm not sure what to do about the control panel yet. The metal panel has three holes drilled and I'm on the fence about adding a couple more and copying the Ghouls and Ghosts style panel with two buttons on either side of a center joystick.



Or maybe it's too small and I should stick with a left side joystick and only two buttons on the right.


That's where I ended up. I still need to finish wiring it, put the monitor back in, get the final art sent off for printing, and decide on a panel layout.