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dax:
After successfully converting a Neo Geo cab to Mame, I am looking to work on some more cabinets and experiment.  There's a bankruptcy auction coming up next week and the following cabinets are part of the auction:

Tekken, High Impact Football, Street Fighter II, Skull & Crossbones, Simpsons, Toki, Knockout, Arch Rivals, Red Baron (cockpit), X-Men, Lethal Enforcer II

I have reason to believe they all work, but I'll check them out condition wise.  My questions are:

a) Which one(s) do you think would be best for MAME conversion?
b) Are any of these more valuable if they were restored?  (i.e. Skull & Crossbones is probably a pretty rare machine, but not sure if anybody cares)
c) What would you pay, taking into account the most-ikely condition if they were running?

Almost all of them are Jamma+, and my research indicates they all run standard arcade monitors, horizontal, except for Lethal Enforcer II which seems to have a higher res monitor, which is appealing, but the control surface would have to be completely re-done.

Personally, I am thinking the Simpsons cab would be easiest to modify and add more buttons and things, since it has a lot of play area, but the Red Baron cockpit must be kinda rare - although I assume the x-y monitor there wouldn't be MAME-compatible, the notion of a cockpit MAME cab is kind of appealing.

Any thoughts?  I'm thinking that none of these cabs should go for more than $250 ea at this auction.
Witchboard:
Red Baron cockpit?  The vector red baron?  That would be sweet.  Not to MAME obviously, but to own.
AtomSmasher:
Where is this auction at?  I'd love to have working tekken, simpsons, or red baron cabinets.
MYX:
Um dude, where is the auction. Drooool.
eccs19:
I don' t think he will want to tell anyone.  It will drive up the price that me may be able to get the cabs for!   ;D
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