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paigeoliver:

I've actually had some pretty good luck with dead games. I bought my MINTY FRESH (best of the 3 I have owned) Turbo for $45. It had a sign on it that said "no CPU" and that sign was correct. I slapped a board in it and that monkey klaw had the best monitor EVER!

I also bought a dead Hydra that was only dead because someone disconnected the AC from the power supply. Board worked, controls worked, monitor worked (I'd rate the monitor a 6 on a 1-10 scale), etc. The cab was a turd though. I sold the yoke and pedal to a BYOAC member, traded the board for a populated Gorf panel, and I still have the cab and monitor. I'll paint it up and install another game eventually.

First game I ever owned was a $25 Capcom Bowling and it actually played blind. Oddly enough it had somehow found its way over to the first row. It was the second game sold that night.

But, ALWAYS best to meet up with the other BYOAC members and take picks on who is gunning for the $25 and $50 games. Otherwise you will all constantly bid each other up to $50 or even $75 on stuff that might have otherwise gone for $25.

paigeoliver:

Last night around midnight I decided that it would be a good idea to bring a game to the auction.

So I started scratchbuilding a cab AT MIDNIGHT.

14.5 hours later I am basically done. I have the cab together, everything is installed, all the controls are interfaced, the software is setup, all the cosmetics are done. All I have left to do is fasten the monitor down and cut a back door.

I would have been done several hours ago but I spent about 2 hours setting up Ultrastyle to look EXACTLY like Ultracade (right down to the exact game selection), only to transfer it to the computer (which I ALSO built last night) for the cab and discover that Ultrastyle didn't like that cabinet. So I switched to Mamewah, and I went ahead and put the rest of the games on there as well.

Cabinet has a 21" flat tube monitor. A 533 mhz comp (windows 98, mamewah, and mame .55). I had originally had some plans on making it a two player cab, but I accidently let the magic smoke out of one of my SJC interfaces. That only left me with one of them, so I did it as a single player cabiner (6 buttons though).

Alas my digital camera is broken, but anyone at the St. Louis auction tommorrow will get to see it. Cabinet is red and marquee says "Multi-Game System". It was gonna say Ultracade, but that whole idea fell through.

Tailgunner:


--- Quote from: Tilzs on October 29, 2004, 09:58:50 am ---Be aware though you might see some of these newer showcase games that are HUGE. Or anything that is HUGE and it won't sell for much of anything. You might think it's a good deal but the reason they don't sell is because they are so big, hard to move, and you need a place to put the thing.

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Yes and no. Most of the newer sitdown games still make money and tend to go over $1000. But you're correct about the older big games, they fetch very little money as nobody bids on them.

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