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SPACE INVADERS DELUXE: To restore or MAME?

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AlanS17:

Now don't go jumping the gun. I won't be damaging it. I'll be doing nothing permanent. I won't be throwing anything away.

Because it is as clean as it is, it would be a snap to MAME, and then restore later. Heck, this thing still has the serial number on a piece of paper stapled to the inside!

The only thing I'd have to replace would be the control panel... Hmmm... MAME Invaders Deluxe.

grueinthebox:

Being that SI Deluxe uses a B&W monitor, and isn't JAMMA, it would seem like the modifications necessary to MAME it would be fairly extensive...  Color monitor, new wiring, new CP - basically gutting the cabinet (or redoing everything in parallel with what's there).  Unless, of course, you build a custom "J-Pac style" adapter to plug into the existing harness and just set it up to play the few B&W games in MAME - which I can't really imagine being worth the effort...  The changes could be done in such a way as to be reversible, but not easily reversible.

That said, it's your cabinet - do with it what you want.  Personally, with the condition it sounds like it's in, I'd think it would be way cooler to have as an extremely nice original example than just another MAME cabinet.

Out of curiousity, is the replacement monitor you ordered the same model as the existing one?  If so, you could always recap the replacement, then swap in the (presumably) burn-in-free tube from the original...

mahuti:

Just sell it as is to someone on alt... whatever... double your money.

AlanS17:

They are the same model, but both have burn-in.

The inners working of this machine are incredibly simple, though. That's what makes converting so easy.

It's not a JAMMA game so re-wiring would be necessary. I can do that in parallel with the existing wiring, though.

Hey! Maybe I should paint the sides yellow and put a Street Fighter 2 board in it! j/k j/k

spriggy:


--- Quote from: RayB on May 07, 2005, 11:40:54 am ---No no no no no!

A rare flawless home-owned cab for ONLY $150 and you want to MAME it?!
NOOOOOOOOO!



--- End quote ---

Dito.  Restore.  Plenty of other cheap to free cabs out there to mame!

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