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Daytona USA Project
Le Chuck:
Got a wild hair up ---my bottom---. $350 later and I'm the proud owner of not one but two Daytona USA cabs.
A few things. These bastages are heavy. Holy smokes, glad I borrowed a trailer with a ramp. Picked them up about 90min from my house. #1 unit works, #2 unit gets power to the monitor but not to the boards. According to the seller if you swap the game drives the #2 plays fine in the #1 cab so that pretty much narrows it down to something that should be relatively fixable. Don't know my way around these so I'm taking it slow. Slight burn in on the #1 monitor. Some crackling in the speakers. Both are filthy.
So here's what I'm thinking, I would like to get #2 working, get them playing separately, and sell one of them.
The one I keep I want to keep it playing Daytona USA but install a second computer on a switcher and be able to flip it between Daytona USA and a pc based mame rig. Figure I'll need an arcadevga card and some other stuff. I already have an ultimarc uhid not doing anything but collecting dust so that could be a help. Didn't realize how tight space is on these things, I'll probably have to do a custom coin door unit and house the other computer and switcher in there.
Given that this is my first racer(s) is something like that even possible/doable? The cabs themselves need a lot of love, corners broken off, artwork borked, and if I split up the pair completely missing from a side of each. I've got some ideas on custom artwork but the one I sell I'll probably just soulart some stock work and get it up to snuff so I can hopefully recoup my buying cost and maybe even make enough to cover the renos.
My timeline is long on this one, I've got to get some Space Base stuff in the mail to IDS and make a hard decision on refurbing a SW Cab or keeping the Starfighter build. Not going to have both laying around.
yotsuya:
Welcome to the Racers Club. :cheers:
jennifer:
Those are spose to be a set arnt they? , Like race your friend on the same game kinda thing (I may be mistaken however) Regardless should you ever want to sell those somebody may want to put them back into the wild. Seriously reconsider trashing them for the Mame....Awesome score BTW, Jennifer is soo very jealous. ;)
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: jennifer on February 01, 2015, 08:34:39 pm --- Those are spose to be a set arnt they? , Like race your friend on the same game kinda thing (I may be mistaken however) Regardless should you ever want to sell those somebody may want to put them back into the wild. Seriously reconsider trashing them for the Mame....Awesome score BTW, Jennifer is soo very jealous. ;)
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You can link up to 8, but these were a matched set tho yes. I have the enormous marquee to prove it. I'm not trashing for Mame, if I do mame it will be a redundant system that doesn't impact the original play. There will be some extra wiring going through a switching hub but nothing that isn't easily undone - that's providing that's even possible. Should be, seems simple enough, it's just a computer.
To that end, is it a crime against humanity to split them up? I will very much likely split them up no matter the answer, while fun to play against someone I don't think it's necessary. Were these ever out in the wild as a single unit? The game menu has a stand alone setting and I know the stand-up versions were onesies.
jennifer:
I wouldn't think it to be a sin, I have like 2 of everything, (not matched games like that) but a set of the same games. to me its like there sisters that could go there separate ways, but why? Their happy just being together....And if one breaks down Well then there's always the parts machine thing.
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