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MAME it or restore it?
DarkSoul1:
I have my eye on this cab as it is in Adelaide (South Australia), where I live.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=575&item=6107556494
Monitor is stuffed as per explanation in sale article. Anyone got a guess as to what may be wrong with it based on the description of the problem?
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Trenchbroom:
Looks like a MAME candidate to me at this point. Needs quite a bit of work to restore. I'm in the US--how rare is that cabinet in Australia?
I like the bezel on it if you are sticking with a vertical monitor. And I LOVE those huge illuminated atari player start buttons! I think it would be awesome to find a very abused old atari cab just for those buttons and for the coin doors that had the chromed O slots where you had to press the coin into the circle and then let it drop--sweet.
independentthread:
As far as maming it goes, if you can handle a one player mame cab, then you've got one there. Personally, I couldn't handle the fact that I couldn't have someone help me out in Raiden or the like. Other than that, it looks like it would make a pretty kewl little Pacman machine...so maybe you could Mame it that way.
ChadTower:
Oh HELL no! Don't MAME that! Restore it. Please! I have a near perfect Dynamo cab I'd give you for that straight up if you were near me, which would be so much better suited for a MAME cab. Don't pass up the chance to return a real classic to circulation. At the very least, if you do MAME it, please do it with care not to destroy what's left of that cab.
8bit:
restore it. You could build a mame cab outta anything but keep the classics going.