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| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: MaxVolume on August 23, 2012, 04:19:41 pm --- Damn... just wrote a long post about this and lost it. :badmood: The gist of it was that this isn't our cabinet, nor is any dedicated cab, working or not, that someone wants to MAME. Sure, it sucks when they just get bored with it later and you see Franken-cabs for sale on Craigslist that you know will just go to the dump or be a giant headache for anyone who is brave/foolish enough to think they can still be restored, but unless someone is prepared to not only step up and buy the cab but also provide an alternative that suits the needs of the builder as well or better than the intended victim, then we should just all shut up about it. :soapbox: --- End quote --- WTF are you on about ? Nobody has beaten him up about his choice to MAME a perfectly good working cabinet. You should have seen what happened to the last guy who wanted to MAME a nice Smash TV -- now he got a beating. >:D --- Quote ---Please do be mindful that we don't destroy what we're trying to re-create. Many classic arcade machines are rare and worth a heck of a lot more intact than altered. Ideal candidates for this type of project are machines that have already been abused by previous owners - artwork destroyed, poorly converted, etc... If you have a classic cabinet in good shape, you can probably sell it to a collector and get a trashed but usable cabinet in the bargain. --- End quote --- For somebody who is all too happy to give people his opinion, you certainly aren't particularly tolerant of the opinions of others. ::) FWIW, I agree with Paige on his exceptions -- there are WAY, WAY more PP cabs than boardsets and more vectors cabs than vector monitors. |
| boerbiet:
The part where you sell a complete and original cabinet to a collector to get a "junk" one in return may roll in the US, but not over here. We have no arcade culture and I know plenty of people who have never even seen a video arcade cabinet. Heck, this thing has been on the country's most popular auction site for a week and only 90 people have clicked on it (10 being myself probably), and the initial bidding price hasn't even been offered yet. Besides, I do not intend on destroying anything. I'll keep the original controls intact and if I would want to add two custom speakers with an additional speaker hole, I'd replace the current wooden board with the single hole so I'd still have the original. If I were to install some guns I'd have to think about how to put in the receiver but that's somewhere in the future anyway. |
| CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: boerbiet on August 24, 2012, 01:14:55 am ---We have no arcade culture and I know plenty of people who have never even seen a video arcade cabinet. --- End quote --- Actually, your countrymen (including prolific BYOACer Level42) are amongst the most vocal of objectors, mostly because of the rarity of cabinets over there. In any event, it is your cabinet and I think it gives you plenty of options for MAME ... just don't expect everybody to like your decision. |
| boerbiet:
??? I wonder why people have a problem in general with this. The cabinet can be restored to its original state if I ever were to resell it, so nothing lost there. Is it just the mere mentioning of someone not using an original cabinet for its original purpose, to play this single game it came with, a reason for people to get ticked off? Because that'd be something I could never hope to understand. |
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