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auction coming up - cabs available.. advice?
dax:
--- Quote from: MYX on February 17, 2006, 12:30:52 pm ---Pricing is relitive. What is it worth to you. I bought a Defender for 375 plus buyers premium and tax was about 450. But this was like my favorite game and was well worth it. I cleaned it up and eventually sold it for 455. I had to get new video decoders for it, so it was a 10-15 dollar video game rental for 4 months of having a great game in my house. Can't beat that.
DO NOT CONVERT. Unless it has already been badly bastardized. I converted a qix that was even converted already and it felt horrible. If you have any respect for what it is that you are buying. If you want a shell to MAME then check out e-bay and a lot of times there are cabs just prime for conversion. Beter yet... Build your own.
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It does seem that the consensus is to not convert, but instead restore?
Is there much of a market for restored vintage games? I have been checking eBay and there seems to be a little activity, but not much.
Anyone care to comment on which of the games they think is most valuable if restored? The cockpit Red Baron?
dax:
--- Quote from: HooPZ on February 17, 2006, 12:11:38 pm ---You didn't have to delete your posts Ahigh, I mean dax.
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It looks like you're accusing me of being another personality on the board? That's provacative. I don't know why you guys think that there can only be one person who disagrees with you. I find that amusing.
Can we move beyond this?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: MYX on February 17, 2006, 12:30:52 pm ---DO NOT CONVERT.
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I'm a little more liberal in this respect than many of the "purists" on here.
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Agreed - probably the best choice if you want a fully custom machine, or
2. Unless it can be restored back with no trouble - i.e. if you find a Centipede with perfect marquee and sideart and you remove the metal CP and PCB's, install a wood 2-player CP and player shum'ups on it, no problem. If you paint it blue with custom side art and chop it down to hang an X-arcade off it, problem . . . , or.
3. The machine isn't worth restoring - This is a gray area, but let's say you find a Galaga with the original joystick replaced, the marquee cracked, and no side-art on one side and damaged on the other. Galaga is a true classic, IMHO, but also a fairly common game, so I do think they sell for much . . . To fix it up would not return as much as you would put into it, so it's PROBABLY okay to MAME, but I would likely look for a more bastardized cab myself.
dax:
Yea, a friend of mine bought a Galaga '88 machine at the last auction where I got my NeoGeo. He paid $45 for the unit, tweaked it just a tad, and sold it for $350, and it was in raggy condition.
I can appreciate the satisfaction of building a custom cabinet. I'm just not looking forward to doing things like T-moulding and stuff like that because I don't have a router. I'd rather jump right into modifying the control surface, painting the cabinet and integrating the computer. Along those lines, the Simpsons cab seems like it has a lot of potential. However, that's because I'm under the impression the Simpsons as a stand-alone game isn't that valuable an item. When I converted my Neo cabinet, I set it up so that I could switch it back to the original setup if I wanted. This next project would be the next step for me, which would be completely changing a cabinet, but not doing it from the gound up. I figure a third project would probaby be a cocktail or tabletop.
Here are some pictures of some of the cabs:
AtomSmasher:
Back to the question at hand, where is this auction? ;D I doubt it's near me, but it never hurts asking.
I would of tried answering your questions if I had an intelligent answer to give, unfortunately I'm fairly new to the mame scene and have no idea. I do think you should build instead of convert, but if you can't build, then spend $100 and get an empty cab that no one will miss.