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Would you like to see a forum for "Real Games"
eightbit:
A problem I see is that the arcade restoration crowd is a different mind set than the emulation people. Your going to have a lot more bickering about restoration vs. conversion of cabs. Your going to have people complaining every time a rotating control panel uses a tron stick or a star wars yoke or other hard to acquire parts because that part was potentionally taken away from a restoration project.
There are other forums for arcade restoration. They may not be as friendly, helpfull or active as this one but I forsee nothing but trouble if you try to include this group and you dilute the focus of this site. Its hard enough for the admins to keep the faq up to date within its current scope.
Perhaps there is someone willing to take this on and start a new site dedicated to restoration.
dirt:
--- Quote from: eightbit on December 18, 2003, 06:57:49 pm ---A problem I see is that the arcade restoration crowd is a different mind set than the emulation people. Your going to have a lot more bickering about restoration vs. conversion of cabs. Your going to have people complaining every time a rotating control panel uses a tron stick or a star wars yoke or other hard to acquire parts because that part was potentionally taken away from a restoration project.
There are other forums for arcade restoration. They may not be as friendly, helpfull or active as this one but I forsee nothing but trouble if you try to include this group and you dilute the focus of this site. Its hard enough for the admins to keep the faq up to date within its current scope.
Perhaps there is someone willing to take this on and start a new site dedicated to restoration.
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i understand what you are talking about when you refer to the "restoration crowd" and yes i know how they can be. but what i think paige is talking about is not a restoration forum but a place for us the "emulation crowd" to go and discuss are other machines. also to get and give info from other mamers who also have dedicated machines.at least that is the way i was seeing it.paige if i am wrong about your intent let me know.
dirt
APFelon:
I voted yes, but I'd have misgivings if we had a sudden influx of riffraff. I agree with what others have said about this forum- it is very mature, and a pleasure to be a part of. I'd hate to see that go away.
I don't think it will, though. I think that it would provide a forum for those of us who have real arcaders, and probably not attract new users just for that forum. They already have Usenet.
APf
Pipercub:
The restoration militants are already here. People have been calling people mutilators for the crime of saving a classic cab from the dumpster and turning it into a well done MAME machine. The interest and population for arcade hardware discussions is also already here and these discussions are all over the board.
Recognizing this and creating a forum to host it could lead to this site becoming as big for original machines as it is for MAME. Sure the site may have started as a small site based on building control pannels for a PC using arcade controls but it could become THE site on the web for home owned arcade machines.
saint:
saint lurks and watches the results come in . . .
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