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RIDE THE LIGHTNING ARCADE CABINET MAME PROJECT
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: Comp1demon on March 03, 2006, 02:56:56 am ---
I hate to say it, but when a Customer spends $1000+ on a CUSTOM UNIT..
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I don't care if it's a custom unit or not, that's a foolish amount of money to pay for just a control panel.
Zakk:
$1000+ ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Holy Crap, that's criminal. To make a monstrosity frankenpanel to begin with, but not even give the guy what he wanted??
May this be a lesson to everyone reading this: THAT'S WHY THIS SITE IS CALLED BUILD YOUR OWN ARCADE CONTROLS!!!!!
Man, tell them to send you everything you are missing (plus the other $600+ they charged you for labor), and we'll help you build your own proper panel. Even if it ends up being a frankenpanel, at least it will be what you wanted.
sheesh. I gotta quadruple the prices I'm charging on my cabs.
Comp1demon:
well let break it down.....
According to the web site here are the cost's.
STANDARD QUAD PANNEL = $694.95
OPTICAL JOYSTICK UPGRADE FOR P1 and P2 = $77.00
LIGHTNING BOLD OVERLAY = $69.00
Q*Bert Stick = $23.00
Trackball illumination = $35.00
Flightstick = $116.00
Shipping =65.00
SO that adds uo to $1076.95
MY invoice Jerome Mascari was = 1076.95
They don't play games here - they are serious business men. They do a good job and they know their stuff.
I got what I paid for... Though im just perturbed that what I wanted in terms of layout and the layout i received were completely different.
Here is what I paid for and DID NOT GET
That Layout yelds me 3 extra buttons
Though I have to admit getting a 8 way top fire instead of the Standard 4 way is a bonus.
Just puts me 2 buttons Short.
Im sure I can easly Add 2 buttons in the future (after my slikstik waranty runs out - don't want to void it)
Yes this is called BYOAC and i can see how some of you feel that buying a full completed panel is cheating, but to be honest - I wanted to buy it completed so i can use it as a template for when i build my own Control pannel (Coming soon). I do plan on taking the plunge and designing my own 2 player layout from MAMEROOM and have them cut it and ship it (under $200) and then going to RandyT and getting a bunch of parts from him (mostly just ICE and LED WIZ) - i want to light up my next control pannel. And ill hit happs for everything else. I might even hit up Slistik for some light up joystick tops / tornado spinner and lightup Trackball. But next time around I want to do it. I already have a USB WINIPAC 2 player avalable to myself.
DOn;t hate my control pannel cause SS designed it all, i am starting to like it - I just wish there was something SS would do to make up for the tremendous mistake in layout...
--- Quote ---Man, tell them to send you everything you are missing (plus the other $600+ they charged you for labor), and we'll help you build your own proper panel. Even if it ends up being a frankenpanel, at least it will be what you wanted.
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All im missing is a few buttons - no big deal... They can get added later on.
the labor was well worth it - they are master craftsman - though they ignored my layout that i told them i wanted.
to make up for that mistake they would have to redesign the whole top again + a new grafic - that alone is 2-3 weeks and then they would have to take apart my entire CP now and transplanty it into a new case to give me EXACLY what I wanted. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. TOO MUCH WORK FOR THEM AND ME. I will learn to live with it.
Well here it is for you guys to look at
C1D
markrvp:
That looks great. There's nothing quite like your first arcade cabinet.
Cheers!
Mark
Zakk:
If I'm not mistaken, you posted about how they screwed up, now you're spending a lot of time defending how great they are. By the looks of it, that flight stick is set to smash your $250 glass. To me, that is a huge screwup. For that much moola you have a right to be mad. You say they are serious businessmen. Let them prove it and fix the thing. Drive it back to them.
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