Arcade Cabinet Modification Posts??

[Denicio]

Well, the super friendly folks at KLOV have sent me packing........cough cough....so i am kinda looking for a new home.

Is this a user friendly forum to talk about taking old cabinets and modifying them into Multicades?

[yotsuya]

Well, the super friendly folks at KLOV have sent me packing........cough cough....so i am kinda looking for a new home.

Is this a user friendly forum to talk about taking old cabinets and modifying them into Multicades?

Uh.... not really, bro.

I mean, I know you from KLOV and know who you are (and you’re a good dude), but a lot of us are on both forums or hold similar views.

If you’re planning to take a working cabinet and gutting it to make an LCD Multicade, you’re gonna get the same reception (and rightfully so).

Building from scratch or have a completely empty cabinet? We’re your guys.


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[dmckean]

Yeah, please don't gut classic arcade cabinets in good condition.

There's plenty of already empty cabinets out there and there's also plans to build cabinets in almost any shape you desire.

[Denicio]

Well, the super friendly folks at KLOV have sent me packing........cough cough....so i am kinda looking for a new home.

Is this a user friendly forum to talk about taking old cabinets and modifying them into Multicades?

Uh.... not really, bro.

I mean, I know you from KLOV and know who you are (and you’re a good dude), but a lot of us are on both forums or hold similar views.

If you’re planning to take a working cabinet and gutting it to make an LCD Multicade, you’re gonna get the same reception (and rightfully so).

Building from scratch or have a completely empty cabinet? We’re your guys.


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Well dang...... i was told to look elsewhere...and i did...only to find myself in a feedback loop of the same folks, it seems.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Denicio]

Yeah, please don't gut classic arcade cabinets in good condition.

There's plenty of already empty cabinets out there and there's also plans to build cabinets in almost any shape you desire.

How does one define 'good condition'? I am not a video game tech so i have no real way of diagnosing them.

[yotsuya]

Well, the super friendly folks at KLOV have sent me packing........cough cough....so i am kinda looking for a new home.

Is this a user friendly forum to talk about taking old cabinets and modifying them into Multicades?

Uh.... not really, bro.

I mean, I know you from KLOV and know who you are (and you’re a good dude), but a lot of us are on both forums or hold similar views.

If you’re planning to take a working cabinet and gutting it to make an LCD Multicade, you’re gonna get the same reception (and rightfully so).

Building from scratch or have a completely empty cabinet? We’re your guys.


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Well dang...... i was told to look elsewhere...and i did...only to find myself in a feedback loop of the same folks, it seems.

Thanks for the heads up.

BYOAC has this unfair reputation on KLOV that people here are willing to maim and gut anything to build a multicab. However, many of us love these games and want to do our best to preserve them, especially if they are working cabs.

After all, the site is called Build Your Own Arcade Controls. That mentality is better suited for scratch-build projects (of which there are many here).


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[yotsuya]

Yeah, please don't gut classic arcade cabinets in good condition.

There's plenty of already empty cabinets out there and there's also plans to build cabinets in almost any shape you desire.

How does one define 'good condition'? I am not a video game tech so i have no real way of diagnosing them.

If everything is there but the monitor doesn’t turn on, you can hear sounds but you don’t see anything on the screen, that’s a good candidate for restoring them. You might not be able to do it, but someone else can.

Sure, it’s your cab, and you can do what you want with it, but there wouldn’t be a lot of support for that in collector communities.

Let’s say the cabinet was in good shape with no monitor, PCBs, or side art - then the stuff that we do here comes into play.


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[Ond]

Yeah, please don't gut classic arcade cabinets in good condition.

There's plenty of already empty cabinets out there and there's also plans to build cabinets in almost any shape you desire.

How does one define 'good condition'? I am not a video game tech so i have no real way of diagnosing them.

Your criteria should probably be "Is it completely empty?" i.e. just the wooden cabinet.  Even then, some rare empty cabs shouldn't be Mame'd.  Building the cabinet itself is not that hard.  There's enough info (and good will) here to help you do it.

[Vigo]

Is this regarding that Ms Pac you posted on KLOV? I didn't read the thread, so I don't know what you have planned, but if you are not planning on butchering the machine in the process, I doubt you would get much hate around here for putting in a multicade.

Yeah, you'd get suggestions to restore it to original, but we get more upset when someone takes internals and junks them, tosses away hard to find specialty controls, junks working CRTs for a widescreen LCD, chops notches out of the sides into to fit a giant frankenpanel, or defaces original art for some corny montage of video game mascots.

The big question is, are you doing anything that would make restoring the cabinet back to original (if you so chose to do at a later date) much more difficult? If not, you are probably fine around here.  You can generally toss whatever you want into a cabinet without ruining the original hardware.

[Dread In The Shed]

I love this forum... more the fact I love that people aren't afraid to share their real thoughts on how they feel... that is the way it supposed to be if you are really truly trying to help someone

[jennifer]

Spose it depends on what your doing with them, I have never built a muticade, but I do cut up complete machines all the time for parts.