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Before I destroy this original
maraxle:
You are much better off restoring the original machine than MAMEing it. Even if you just put it back together and did some minor touch-ups, it would probably fetch $600. You could buy a lot of MAMEable cabinets for that much...
SirPeale:
Yup, don't MAME it. Especially if it's working, and all you had to do was replace the power cord!
hulkster:
um....just replace the power cord and sell that baby to somebody who likes classics too much! those old games like pacman and asteroids and donkey kong and all that, you can just restore certain parts and sell it for 1000. at least thats my thinking, i could get bashed for saying that, but oh well, its a free country!
Lilwolf:
Centipede wasnt' jamma was it? I'm assuming that the answer is no.
You might want to take a look to see how hard it would be to setup a complete pluggable mame solution (like jpac + arcadeVGA where you don't touch any of the original connections... so you unplug the original centiped board, and plug into a computer.
but with a vertical trackball with one button setup. Do you really really like others? There are some good ones.. but centipede is probably the best (the one I play the most with my trackball anyway).
But all in all... don't rip out anything... don't cut anything... It will retain its value a LOT longer..
also... to find its real value... search on ebay... and see what they have been selling for. Some go for obsene amounts (ms-pacman, tron) and some I would guess would...don't (galaga). So you might find that in the condition yours is in... its only worth a few hundred.
but all in all... I'm pissed that I ripped my original cables / control panel up still.. but they didn't have arcadevga or jpacs back then.
Sylentwulf:
Yeah, that's in too good of a condition to be killing. As was said above, even if you ebay it exactly like it is, you'll be able to buy a different cabinet and still have plenty of money leftover to use on the pc/monitor/other "stuff"