Got this painted MK2 cabinet recently that was converted to Tekken 3 (Hunting for a MK2 board now). It was nicely done and clean but as I am in the process of restoring it back to its original glory the paint had to go. I figured I would have to order new vinyl but decided to take a chance at stripping it as I could see a little hint of Raiden in a scratch. Did a test pass of Citristrip up top and low and behold a very bright and not faded logo!

Did 1 full pass on both sides and they came out beautifully! 95% undamaged and in vibrant color. There's only a few spots where the vinyl was starting to thin out or fade but not bad at all and think its a great candidate to consider it salvageable and leave its history.

The control panel on the other hand not so much. Vinyl was very faded or flat out messed up but seeing as how it needed a new top anyways im fine with that.

Now just need to put in more elbow grease on all the little random touch up spots. This paid was relentless in some spots!

I posted my arcade room on here 2 years ago. I will link it in the comment section.

Well my girlfriend is pregnant and now my spare bedroom/arcade room will have to go.

I have a 27x26' loft above my garage that we just use for storage. My plan is to finish the middle section into my new 14x20' arcade room. The outer sides are less than 6ft high. So I was going to keep those as storage.

I have a Spray Foam Insulation company coming in 2 weeks to encapsulate the whole loft. Then I will wall in the 14x20' area in the middle where the walls are higher, I will also be using r13 batt for that finished space for double insulating effectiveness because I live in PA and we routinely get 0 degree winters through January and February. So I can't afford to insulate the whole 27x26' loft.

The interior walls will be OSB, primed and painted Purple. with a 12k BTU Mini-split for temperature control. Also making a small 3x5 bathroom heated via an in wall fan drawing air from the conditioned arcade room. With a cassette toilet and foot pump sink, as there is no plumbing. So this can double as a guest loft for when family stays overnight.

It does include a shuffleboard that I don't have yet. I chose shuffleboard because this will be upstairs in an old building so I want to avoid heavy pool tables, and air hockey where people will be thumping and too active.

I'm planning on swapping out that love seat for a pullout couch bed.

Baby is due in march so my plan is to have all this done by the end of 2027. We will be keeping the baby in our room the first year.

I wanted to know what everyone thinks of my blueprint layout I drew up.