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severdhed:

i'd probably try to sell the cabinet to someone who wants to restore a DK...please don't bastardize that cabinet with a giant panel.

i'm not against maming it, it makes more sense to have a cabinet that plays more than one game, but perhaps go the route that Javeryh took...

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=94351.0


restored the cabinet to make it look like a Donkey Kong, but it is running mame with about 30 games that are playable with those controls.  

Turnarcades:

I think what everyone is saying is to just find a different shell - if you can't restore it then offer it to someone who can as A) it's better to allow classics to remain intact for restoration and B) if MAMEing is your intention, there are better cabs that would suit your needs, particularly as you want a bigger control panel.

Butchering a cabinet to fit a big control panel is tricky to accomplish and can look very ugly anyway, butchering a classic to do fit a big control panel is just sacrilige.

severdhed:

i had a DK cabinet that i picked up pretty cheap, with the intention of eventually restoring it. i got it up and running with mame pretty quickly much like javery's setup only not pretty.  once i started looking into the costs of replacing the artwork and various things, i realized that it was going to cost alot of money to make it look nice.  and I know that i really didn't think I had it in me to do this cabinet justice...so i sold it.  i put it up for sale in the B/S/T forum and sold it for what i paid for it.  that way i wasnt out any money, and hopefully it will get the proper treatment that i never would have given it.  I like generic mame cabinets, but a DK is not a good base for such a cabinet.

it has been my experience that  empty generic cabinets are not hard to come by, so please don't destroy that cabinet.  at least try to sell it, i'm sure you can find someone who would give you something for it.  if you are set on keeping it and maming it, at least dont modify the structure of the cabinet, make a panel that fits within the cabinet and go with it.  set it up as a classics cabinet or something.  a big control panel on a DK cabinet is just not cool

R1V3R5:

Where are you OP? Because I'm assuming you are in Illinois by your screen name. Because if you were any closer I'd totally buy it off you and restore it. But I'm way down in Alabama.

Whatever you do, I wouldn't cut it up. Either restore it or sell it. Or mame it with old school games that the cab was meant for.

IllState:

In my experience I've been looking for a cab to mess around with for years and this is the first and only one I've come across.  I don't know anyone with arcade machines other than the guy who gave me this cab (It was used for parts on his Donkey Kong restore), Peoria's Craigslist is crap for arcade machines so if I give this one up I have a feeling I'll never have another one.

The problem is although I'm 31, I have no affinity towards 95 percent of the games Javeryh's cabinet plays and DK and Pac-Man would be fun for about 10 minutes before I was ready to move on. So I guess in short if anyone near Peoria, IL wants a DK cabinet I'll consider a trade for a different cab, but act fast, I was going to order a monitor and get this project kicked off here in a week or two.

Edit: B/S/T forum link http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=105733.0

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