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My First cab and First Restoration (sorta) - Galaxian/Galaga

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Mauzy:
If you want an absolutely dedicated Galaga, why don't you fix up this machine as a Galaga (make it all nice and pretty, running solid and such) and sell it to look for a true blue Galaga? They aren't that hard to find if you know how to look.

I just hate to see cabinets get irreversibly altered such as cutting down the sides. If some day down the road after you've got your room of 25 cabinets with the cool black light spaceship carpeting and a pop corn machine and you want to do a true restore on your Galaxiga, you won't be able to because the sides are screwed.

I made an ENORMOUS irreversible mistake as a new collector, I just try to keep others from having the same regret.

And by all means, its your cabinet. You can set it ablaze next week if you want. Just throwing in my 2 cents  :cheers:

Crayola:
Yea I hear you Mauzy.. Its not sitting right with me. I put out requests on the boards for an
empty galaga or ms pacman cabinet and I am watching craigslist/ebay.

Any idea how to find a cab near NJ thats been gutted? Maybe some giant parts place?

Crayola

Spyridon:
I hate the be the bearer of more bad news, but that also in not an original Galaga board in there.  It is a bootleg one. 

Looks to match the Nebulous Bee one listed on Arcadeshop's site.

Your board:


Nebulous Bee Bootleg board:


Original Board:

Crayola:
ROLF  :laugh2:

You have got to be kidding me... Your right. It does look just like the nebulus board.
Well that said.. I give up. my dreams of a 100% orig galaga are dead for now.

I'll end up buying a new machine down the road when I have more cash.
I'm going to focus on my defender and asteriods.. both I believe are 100% original
but I am going to check with ya'll first:) I'll have pics up of the asteriods tomorrow.

Damit.. I just bought a Cr@Pload  of galaga parts to fix this up. Even a new wiring harness.

What would it take the convert this to a 60 in 1 board? Any multicade boards you
could recommend?  I'd want something that I could limit to just vertical games
that require 1 button max.

How do those interface to the wiring in the galaga? Any websites or resources
you could point me to for converting to a multicade?

Thanks,
Crayola

Spyridon:
Just because you can't go 100% original doesn't mean you can't have a nice looking Galaga.  Yeah, it's not the right cab, but if you make it look good and it plays...great.  Only us nitpicking types will ever know.

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