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paigeoliver:
No, it isn't worth doing a reverse conversion on. The cost of the parts add up to more than the game is worth, and by doing a reverse conversion you are just killing another one somewhere else, and the OTHER one might not have ever been painted over.

In general its not worth doing a reverse conversion unless you already have a lot of the parts. Otherwise it will almost always add up to higher than the cost of a complete unit, and you aren't "saving" anything, you are just buying parts that were either just ripped out of a dedicated unit last week, or parts that could be used to repair an almost complete unit.
Tiger-Heli:
Okay, Paige confirmed my suspicions -

http://epg3.tripod.com/sinistar.html

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=S&game_id=9553

From what I've heard, Mega-popular, fairly rare.

However, given yours, you would have to come up with the boardset, the unique joystick and centering spider (repro spiders are available), the sideart, the CP overlay, etc.

I think it would cost you more than it's worth and also be difficult to maintain - so in short, I wounldn't bother.

See Pokerman's comments in this thread:  http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,34084.0.html

Also -
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,34077.msg295374.html#msg295374
brandon:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 18, 2005, 05:27:16 pm ---No, it isn't worth doing a reverse conversion on. The cost of the parts add up to more than the game is worth, and by doing a reverse conversion you are just killing another one somewhere else, and the OTHER one might not have ever been painted over.

In general its not worth doing a reverse conversion unless you already have a lot of the parts. Otherwise it will almost always add up to higher than the cost of a complete unit, and you aren't "saving" anything, you are just buying parts that were either just ripped out of a dedicated unit last week, or parts that could be used to repair an almost complete unit.

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I agree with that..
NoOne=NBA=:

--- Quote from: brandon on May 18, 2005, 07:43:49 pm ---because of all the garage-built cabinets with bootleg 39 in 1 boards floating about the collectible games just don't seem to be worth the money they used to.
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I don't think that's the primary factor.

The classic cabs went through the same cycle as Beany-Babies and Dotcom stocks.
They got very overpriced when the "retro" fad hit, and are now coming back down to more reasonable levels.

Good condition collectibles are still commanding a hefty price.
brandon:

--- Quote from: NoOne=NBA= on May 18, 2005, 07:55:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: brandon on May 18, 2005, 07:43:49 pm ---because of all the garage-built cabinets with bootleg 39 in 1 boards floating about the collectible games just don't seem to be worth the money they used to.
--- End quote ---

I don't think that's the primary factor.

The classic cabs went through the same cycle as Beany-Babies and Dotcom stocks.
They got very overpriced when the "retro" fad hit, and are now coming back down to more reasonable levels.

Good condition collectibles are still commanding a hefty price.

--- End quote ---

That's probably very true.. and if its like any other collectible they're only worth something after I've gotten rid of mine  ;D
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