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| Tailgunner:
Just got home from the Winston-Salem auction. I've pretty much decided I'd rather have multiple cabinets versus one big one, so I bought picked up three cabinets today to bring my MAME cabinets up to 4. First one was a $40 Atari Space Duel that's been converted to Aliens. This one will end up being my vector cab and it'll use a 21" PC monitor till I find a proper vector monitor for it. The next one I bought was ??? converted to Apache 3. The cabinet is solid and the monitor looks quite new. Biggest reason I bought it is the control, it has an analog x-y yoke that looks almost exactly like the Star Wars yoke. Grips and internals are the same, the box that covers the center pivot is a little different. $40 for this one, it'll end up as my raster horizontal cab. Third cab is a dedicated Aqua Jack cab, no monitor but it's got a 3 button Tron/Gorf style 8 way stick. $10 for the cab, no plans for it yet as I bought it mostly for the joystick. Eventually it might end up as a vertical vector cab. Beyond these I've already acquired a JAMMA Dynamo cab, it'll end up being my vertical raster cabinet. Pics will follow... |
| kspiff:
Good deals.. SuperAuctions? US Amusements? |
| Tailgunner:
http://www.auctiongamesales.com/ |
| Frostillicus:
Those are some nice prices. So when you find a working vector monitor (good luck), are you going to get the ZVG? I've been following that ever since they announced it's potential long long ago - and the screen shots look pretty nice. Yours isn't the Space Duel cabinet they are talking about on their site, is it? www.zektor.com Good luck and post conversion pics, plz :) |
| Tailgunner:
Preliminary updates: Surprisingly both Apache 3 and Aliens powered up and played fine when I plugged them in. :) Part of the reason I got good deals on them were the cords were locked inside the cabinets and neither could be powered up at auction time. The monitor in Aliens needs a cap kit, and it has a fair amount of screen burn but the monitor in Apache3 is in great shape. The Apache X-Y yoke needs new bushings, but otherwise it works fine. Yep, the Aliens cabinet is a Atari vector Space Duel cab like mentioned on the Zektor site. I recognized the shape immediately, as it's the same cab used for Gravitar. When I find a proper vector monitor it's be installed along with the Zektor interface board. The original Space Duel side art looks to be in excellent shape, hopefully the stick-on Aliens side art has protected the upper half of the original art. Time will tell. From the back side it looks like whoever did the conversion didn't butcher the control panel too badly. Another plus (IMO) is the cab was converted using Wico leaf 8-ways and leaf buttons, plus they left the Atari lighted 1 and 2 player buttons and cone bezels intact. Only bad thing I've found so far on this cab is the tinted monitor overlay glass has a nasty scratch and needs replacing. It turns out the Aqua Jack stick is analog, so it won't work as a Tron stick. Not sure at this point whether I'll save it intact for games that use an analog stick, or swap a different grip onto the analog base and hack a digital stick to use with this grip. Either way, for $10 I'm still happy I bought it. Here's few pics, guess I need to come up with a proper website to host from. ;) |
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