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Witchboard:
You could do both, part it out and leave it.  Take all the parts you'll think you'll need or will be hard to find and make changes to the cab and leave it.  Pushbuttons and joysticks are easy to find, just take your trackball out and put a plate over the hole.  Take you big monitor out and replace it with something cheap that's laying around.  Make it look nice with a new paper bezel or something.  That way, you get the parts you want, but you feel you've left something for you frat boys to enjoy after your gone.
AlanS17:
Something just occurred to me that I had forgotten... I'd have to take the damn thing halfway apart to get it back out the door. :P I'm feeling pretty lazy.

I think I've got a week to idiot-proof it and get it going good enough for them to hold on to so long as they don't bust it. They've gotten waytoo attatched to NBA Hangtime and Puzzle Fighter just to let it slide like that...

Final decision: Sell it and then donate it if they don't buy it! (And pull the TB for myself.)
AlanS17:
SOLD!!!

I sold my machine to the girlfriend of an alumnus. She apparently really likes Super Puzzle Fighter 2 (even though she never wins). She agreed to leave it here at the house, too!

So that's one less thing to lug up to Dallas with me. I plan on building another machine, though I think now my brother wants to build a small TV-compatible box. :-P I'll have to make him change his mind....
dag2000:
Don't leave us hanging ... how much did you get for your soul?
AlanS17:
Well I admittedly didn't get anything close to what it was worth. I got $500 for it. Yes, I KNOW they got the better end of the deal, but it's staying in the frat house where I wanted it to stay. The $500 will cover the value of the parts that I wanted to pull from it so I can replace those with new parts.

I put over $1000 worth of parts into it and it's a good looking machine. They certainly got their money's worth. This picture was taken with a camera phone, but you can kind of see it...

Yes the marquee is ugly. Never got around to maknig one cuz one of the other guys wanted to do it and then he never did... Don't hold that against the machine.
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