Main > Main Forum

Post your hacked Cabinets!! Built or Bought??

Pages: << < (3/8) > >>

RayB:


THAT WAS A JOKE FOLKS.

Seriously, I own a Galaga, which has been converted to JAMMA with a switching PS and in it I run Galaga 88 and a bootleg of Galaga with the original roms, plus a 2 bank highscore mod and switchable rapid fire mod. I've been VERY slow to restore this machine (got it in '98). So far I've only put on a new control panel overlay, buttons and put back the original joystick.

But for hacks, I have one of those cabs that looks EXACTLY like Frogger, but isn't Frogger, so I'm MAMEing that right now.

I also own a Missile Command cocktail, which doesn't work, and might need just about everything in it repaired. I've had no luck with just plugging in boards bought off Ebay. I discovered this AFTER I went and restored both trackballs. Frankly, these Atari cocktail tables are so generic looking I'm very tempted to go against my own opinion on classics, and to just MAME the damn thing.  ;)


In the past (gosh, 10 years ago?) I owned:

Working Punch-Out! Upright. Loved that game. Also had the Super Punch-Out board which I could just swap in, and I had a MINT condition control panel. I ended up selling it for $75 to a friend when I had to move.

At that time too I had a Dynamo cut-corner upright with generic blue CP and a marque that said "Super Select System". I used this cab to play a few JAMMA boards I owned at the time. I didn't care about restoring cabs back then. I was happy to own some and just play the games.

Also at that time, I had a generic white little cab that used to be some gold game. I covered up the marquee with stickers, and painted the CP a nice red with black speckles. I had a Super Nintendo running running in this one, using a hacked SCART cable. The joys and buttons I hacked by soldering them directly to SNES pad circuit boards.

I also briefly had a non-working Star Trek pinball machine, which I didn't know how to fix and ended up selling.




danny_galaga:

made mine from scratch. i considered buying an old machine and mameing it but my town isnt large. the only one i knew of for sale was in pretty sad shape. a second hand furniture guy had it (i think theyre as dodgy as second hand car dealers). reckoned he might consider  selling at $600. i happily told him ill build one which works (his was a hacked 1942 on some other machine. switched on but strange and obvious board probs).

if i lived somewhere with more variety i think id like to restore a cab. be like restoring a car  :) i think the conundrum is this. if the cab is in good condition it would be a pity not to restore it. if its a piece of poo (like the pic) then its going to be heaps of trouble fixing up for mame anyway.

but whatever you do dont feel bad about it. unless its something really rare...

jub3i:

I just got my cab a couple of days ago.  It's a Captain America and the Avengers cab and it's in okay shape.  I don't know if it's original or not, but it looks like it is.  It has a nice marquee and bezel.  The side art is a little scratched.  (Is the side art supposed to go all the way down?  It goes from the top to about knee height and I can't tell if it's original or not).  The coin door is smashed, the corners are scuffed up and the paint is scratched in a few areas and it looks like there was some water damage.  The CP looks horrible.  There is no CPO, it's obviously been painted black.  Not very well either, there is some paint on the sides of buttons and the screws have been painted over.  And the joystick and buttons are just all over the place.  There is 4 joysticks and 2 buttons each.  From the looks of the intructions on the bezel, that is the correct.  (The bezel shows start and attack as being the same button).  But the problem is it was redone really sloppy.  Nothing is lined up well.  The middle two players are at different vertical positions (if that makes sense).  And on all of the players the distance between the buttons and the joystick vary wildly.  I'll post some pics when I take a couple.

I just need to save up some money now, and buy the rest of the parts I need to get it working.

EDIT:  Well it's working the way it is right now.  I mean I need to buy the rest of the parts I need to MAME it.  Which reminds me, if anyone wants/needs the PCB or some other part in there that I don't need, PM me to arrange a way to get it.  I'm not really looking to sell it, so I'll give it to you for free.  So if someone wants to pick up the parts or arrange shipping that works.

Stingray:



Started life as a B/M Blueprint cab. When I got it , it was mostly gutted and probably dumpster bound.

-S

Witchboard:

Still see you haven't got the side art on it yet.  :P

Pages: << < (3/8) > >>

Go to full version