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TheGatesofBill:


--- Quote from: chrisinauz on August 02, 2004, 04:52:29 pm ---Out of curiousity who else here has made a MAME machine out of an original cabinet of some form? Just a show of hands!
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Mine was apparently a Frogger or Mr.Do!. I picked up the cabinet completely gutted, but in decent condition (for free). Anyways, I posted it here, and it was common, so I decided to MAME it. It was just a generic wood cabinet really. Just because the cabinet is original doesn't mean it is actually worth something. That thing you had probably should have been saved and sold to someone who cared about it. Heck you could have bought another cabinet to MAME with part of the money. *shrugs* Apparently you have something against making a profit though. Thats all I have to say on the topic.

southpaw13:

Hacked is a harsh word.  I fully restored a Frogger, Robotron, Capcom Bowling, and a Space Ace.  All of them play Mame, the original boards are still in the machines (but not hooked up) and Space Ace also plays Daphne.  This is not a crime, it is the best alternative to keeping these 20 year old games alive.

Southpaw

paigeoliver:

In chronlogical order (some machines were sold, some unmamed later, some converted back to pcbs later, one went in the dumpser and many were traded).

Pac-Man converted to Capcom Bowling. Then painted Pac-Man yellow. Eventually dumpstered. (This was a POS anyway).

Defender converted to Double Dragon. cabinet sanded down, painted gloss red, ran a frankenpanel for awhile, eventually sold the empty cabinet.

Carnival cocktail. Mame for a while, traded empty cabinet later, was not modified in any way, recieved it empty traded it empty.

Galaxian that was painted brown and converted to Clutch Hitter. Received Pac-Man panel, bezel, NOS Pac-Man Plus marquee. artwork kit later sold and cabinet redone with a Top Gunner kit, then sold.

King & Balloon - dedicated ATW bootleg mini. Boardset was missing, no one has working bootleg pinout King & Balloon boards. It is now labeled Galaga and sitting in my living room in working order.

Amazing Maze. Was dedicated, complete and dead, dead, dead. When I got it. The original game sucks. Would have cost $130 to fix the boardset, no one (myself included) would have paid $130 for the dang thing in working condition. Parted it internally for closer to $200. It got a fighter panel and VGA monitor. Was later robbed of its PC and I-Pac for another project, and is currently sitting in my basement. I still have the original panel.

"The Shadow" Video poker, purchased fully working for $50, parted it, then mamed it, gave it as a gift.

Space Firebird mini - Was dedicated and complete when I got it, also had a problem that no one knew how to fix, parted the internals, swapped the stick with an 8-way, kept it MAME for a year, then sold it at superauctions.

Dynamo Tournament Solitaire. added red wico joysticks and buttons to the machine which already had VGA monitor and serial trackball. Replaced factory PC (which was horked), with a p2 400, traded it for a pinball machine.

Gorf cocktail - Unchanged externally, still in my living room.

"Darwin 4078" formerly a Frogger type cab, but not a Frogger. Got TRON layout + 4-way and an NOS Road Fighter artwork kit. Was built to order for a customer.

Defender- empty, dedicated. Mamed, control panel is Defender layout with Defender overlay, only runs 3 games. Still in my living room today.

Probably forgetting a couple.

Originals I have that MIGHT still get Mamed.

A Stargate cabinet (empty cabinet with sideart, original panel in bad shape, and "Capcom fighter" panel in excellent shape.

Sega Turbo (unsure if it is complete, all the parts are in boxes, monitor and boardset both have problems).

Atari Basketball (Complete)

Sprint 2  (I have two of these).

Battlezone (made a double decker panel for it, hated the look and dismantled it). Just an empty cabinet, missing most everything but step and coin door.

Some Universal cocktail, can't recall the name. No monitor, no PCB.

Millipede - Empty cabinet, had been converted to Time Soldiers. I stripped off most of the paint to get the sideart back. This has no Millipede parts other than the power sled, and the only Time Soldiers part is has is an unpopulated panel.

A Gorf upright, nothing inside, and the control panel is unpopulated.

I probably have other stuff I am forgetting, I can never quite remember how many machines I actually have at any given time.


Tailgunner:

All of my MAME cabinets are originals that'd been converted or gutted. All of them are still in restorable condition, so I can still go that route if I want to.

RayB:


Well let's see, I got working Gallaga by some Midday company, and I didn't like it cuz, the backgrounds don't even scroll or nuthing, how lame! So I put MAME in it, and the stupid joystick only moved side to side, so I ripped it out and put in a Happ 8 way, and had to punch quite a few new holes to add a second joystick, and 7 buttons for each player. I'm still debating whether to add a new extended and wide panel so I can cram more controls in there.

~Ray B!!!




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