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Getting an old Space Duel Cab - advice needed.
paigeoliver:
Also, a painted over stripped color vector is not worth restoring. Stripped ones with nice artwork, and complete dead ones are common.
Space Duel is a 600ish game, restoring that one would cost $1000. ($450 monitor, $50 wiring, $125 boardset, $100+ control panel, etc, etc, etc).
Truz:
just a question but is that the free space duel cab that 1hookedspacecadet posted in Perth Amboy NJ.
If so thats a downer because i was thinking of contacting the guy who was giving it away. If it is, oh well good luck with it!
Santoro:
--- Quote from: Truz on April 13, 2004, 03:05:15 pm ---just a question but is that the free space duel cab that 1hookedspacecadet posted in Perth Amboy NJ.
If so thats a downer because i was thinking of contacting the guy who was giving it away. If it is, oh well good luck with it!
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Yeah, it's the one - Sorry. I jumped at it a few minutes after he posted it.
Santoro:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 13, 2004, 02:48:47 pm ---Also, a painted over stripped color vector is not worth restoring. Stripped ones with nice artwork, and complete dead ones are common.
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Not sure I understand what you meant here. If I strip it and get down to reasonable looking side art, it wouldn't be worth restoring? Or are you saying that if I strip it then paint it again, it wouldn't be workth restoring.
--- Quote ---Space Duel is a 600ish game, restoring that one would cost $1000. ($450 monitor, $50 wiring, $125 boardset, $100+ control panel, etc, etc, etc).
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So the monitor is basically making it cost-prohibitive to restore? In that case I would probably Mame it. Then I would probably get a lot flack rom the community about maiming a classic cab...
So what is the right thing to do with it? Let it rot? :'(
abrannan:
--- Quote from: Santoro on April 13, 2004, 03:31:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on April 13, 2004, 02:48:47 pm ---Also, a painted over stripped color vector is not worth restoring. Stripped ones with nice artwork, and complete dead ones are common.
--- End quote ---
Not sure I understand what you meant here. If I strip it and get down to reasonable looking side art, it wouldn't be worth restoring? Or are you saying that if I strip it then paint it again, it wouldn't be workth restoring.
--- Quote ---Space Duel is a 600ish game, restoring that one would cost $1000. ($450 monitor, $50 wiring, $125 boardset, $100+ control panel, etc, etc, etc).
--- End quote ---
So the monitor is basically making it cost-prohibitive to restore? In that case I would probably Mame it. Then I would probably get a lot flack rom the community about maiming a classic cab...
So what is the right thing to do with it? Let it rot? :'(
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I think he was saying that it's not worth the effort it would take to restore it to the original game, since there are easily available non-working but otherwise complete color vector games.
The right thing to do is whatever you want to do with it. If the artwork is still under the paint, it may be worth your while to strip it so you have some good looking sideart. Otherwise, it's basically a free-for-all on what way you want to go with it.