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| slicer_d:
I should have taken your wager to APFelon ;) Yeah it will have to stay robocop for a while becuase with the spending of 200 bucks I will need to wait a while before I could get a new computer unless all I wanted to play was pacman I think I have a couple laying around that could handle that ;) But unless the sides and art are in bad condition which I dont think they are I think I will keep all that art and maybe even the boardset so it can be converted back later. I also found a site where a guy took the same type of taito can and made a nice 4 player with spinner, t-ball, 4-way, and dual rotaries! http://www.mameworld.net/massive/Cabinet/Zeldamame/Zelda.htm Theres the link if anybody cares I dont know if he actually changed any part of the cab or I'm planning on emailing him to find out. |
| Wade:
--- Quote from: slicer_d on February 10, 2004, 12:56:44 am ---WOOT!! :o It actually has a 25" monitor in it! I have no idea how they fitted a 25 incher in there but it must be tight. I think I'm going to buy it then hopefully I can talk him down to 180 that would save me a couple of bucks which I need becuase my car was broken into the other night and I need a new window >:( --- End quote --- Did you personally measure it, because I don't believe it! Those old Taito cabs came with 19" monitors and the picture of your cabinet looks like it is proportioned correctly. In the picture there is plenty of bezel around the monitor, perhaps 3" or more. There is no way that is a 25" monitor. Wade |
| Techoverload:
I would have to agree.......would be nice to be wrong....but that cant be a 25" not with that much bezel around it. A 25" should just barely fit and leave virtually no room for a bezel especially on the right and left side. |
| eightbit:
My opinion its worth $200 even with a 19" monitor and I would quess 19" from the pictures. If its a 25" stop reading this and drive there to get it. Don't convert it to 4 player. The side players won't have a good view because of the angle of the screen and the sides and it will be crowded. How many 4p games are you ever going to play anyway? It looks really good the way it is, why put a franken panel on it? If your in a good video game market restore it and sell it complete. I don't know where you are but I could get $500 pretty easy around here for it in decent condition. Its not worth anything as a collectable but a clean working game can still fetch a good price. Especially if your able to deliver it. Many others here will say you can't sell it for that much becuase they wouldn't consider buying it but you wouldn't be selling to the kind of people that hang out here normally. |
| Howard_Casto:
Agreed. This would be a nice cabinet for CLASSIC games. That machine has the smallest of control panels, it wouldn't even take a sf2 layout. Also look how far back the monitor is angled... this is because you are supposed to stand as clsoe to center as possible. Even a slighlty larger 2 player control panel wouldn't work as you'd be staring at wood.(btw this is why the larger the control panel the lesser the monitor angle in the arcades) Like what they've all said already.. it's totally worthless as a collectable. Its in such bad shape that it couldn't even be restored to a taito cab. So if your buying it, go by what you think the monitor is worth as it's absolutely worthless as a conversion or restoration project. With that being said, it could make a fine mame cab if you cleaned up the control panel, stripped it of the hacked up artwork, removed the god awful white t-molding and kept a modest button layout with just a few buttons. |
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