Quoted from gunstarhero:Earlier games didn’t have the Royal mods in mind so you need to cut a hole in the top of the cabinet for your topper which while not impossible is certainly less than ideal. You also would need to break out the original cab speaker mount if you do the display and speaker upgrade which kinda sucked.
Aside from those issues tho you can add the RGB GI and the XL screen so I don’t think you’re gonna regret picking up an LE over finding a later release. You also get a shaker (unless it was added later) a little plaque and possibly colored rails, lockdown bar and legs.
As for flipper strength, the flippers are basically too powerful for the game already (you really need to turn them down a couple ticks to feel original) so I don’t think you’re gonna have too many problems there. The biggest complaint about the remakes seems to be the sound quality isn’t quite the same, because they don’t use the same speaker configuration I believe.
Good information here, thanks! The only thing that I see different in what you are saying, is that the LE I’m looking at, IS NUMBERED on the Apron, and it’s the black powdercoat edition, which apparently is more rare than the gold trim. Big screen is not a deal-breaker, and neither is the sound..(I can always upgrade the speakers and add a sub down the road, which I hear is a great upgrade). So other than that, why would I need to put a hole in the top of the backbox for the topper (because I thought all of these cabs had the original holes with grates in the back..couldn’t I just run the conduit through one of those holes? I do this for my
NBA Fastbreak set, for the link). Anyways, gearing up for this..literally, this has been a grail of mine since I played the orig. in ‘98.