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| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: megashock5 on July 29, 2004, 09:17:31 am ---I FINALLY found the 3M Safest Stripper stuff and followed the directions - but most of the black paint still isn't coming off, and where it is the PacMan art is coming off with it! --- End quote --- See, I was wondering about that. I don't know how paige got his millipede to work. The art is paint too. Well, if you want pacman back on it, like I said, you can always go to twobits.com. It's expensive but would work. |
| paigeoliver:
Sand it, paint it Pac-Man yellow and get the multicade graphics, it will be very nice, believe me, it will be. If you already started messing up the Pac graphics then they are horked. Forget them. Remember, this IS the second most common game in the world, and the single most common cabinet. There aren't enough REAL Pac-Man boardsets floating around for all the cabinets anyway. This can still be a very nice machine for you. Not every painted over stripped cabinet is meant to be restored. There is no shortage of Pac-Mans in this world, not by a long shot. |
| RayB:
You could paint it black and turn it into the most wanted game in the world: Galaga! ;D |
| megashock5:
Okay, but now my problem is that many of you are saying that this wouldn't make a good 2-player multicade cab. I'm talking two 8way sticks, one 4way stick, trackball, spinner and all the buttons. Obviously the only way to do this is to put a frankenpanel on it, but now I'm wondering how hard that would be. I'm seriously considering just building from scratch using the plans in the Project Arcade book. Besides the fact that someone might be able to restore it, can someone tell me the main reason this cab wouldn't be a good choice? Other than the fact that I don't know how I would attach a big CP to it - whereas I could probably follow Lusid's plans (I'm not too bad if I have instructions to follow!) The other attractive thing about building is the ability to make the front open and add a keyboard tray much easier. I really don't have the time/energy/money to do a restoration. Just want an all-in-one emulator station. I think at this point I'd let the cab and the monitor (and it's chassis) go for 50 bucks so I could buy some MDF. Is that an unreasonable amount? thanks to everyone for all the helpful input - the people here really go above and beyond to help each other. Know that it's appreciated :) |
| Chris:
--- Quote from: megashock5 on July 30, 2004, 08:43:02 am ---Besides the fact that someone might be able to restore it, can someone tell me the main reason this cab wouldn't be a good choice? --- End quote --- The design of the sides enclosing the CP area is your biggest issue to solve. Here's something to note: I have a cabinet that started life as a SuperContra and went through a couple of conversions, coming to me as an empty black hulk. It's now a two-player MAME cabinet with everything you described but a spinner, but every time I work on it I wish I had just built it myself... if you have the skills, the time, and te money, you'll probably be more satisfied in the long run building it yourself. Here's an idea, though: Can you handle TWO cabinets? Make this one a vertical (using the real arcade monitor) one-player cab with a real 4-way joystick or a T-Stick Plus with a ball top and two or three buttons, and make the scratch-built cabinet your two-player everything cab... --Chris |
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