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Has anyone ever mamed a star wars standup (dont kill me for thinking it)
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redfivexw:
well, as you may have been able to tell from my user name, i am a big fan of the star wars upright!  "redfive standing by..."  I happen to have  a star wars upright, and the monitor has been dead for years.  I have been trying to find a good used WG monitor to replace it for quite some time, but they always sell for way more than i want to spend, and the price seems to be going higher and higher.  the thing i dont like about spending all that money on a used unit is that i cannot guarantee how long it will last or even if i will be able to get parts for it, etc.  Anyway, i have built some mame machines in the past, and i am not a purist (i recently bought a stripped Donkey Kong cabinet and did a complete mame machine on the inside, complete resto to original on the outside and i love it), so i was wondering if it would be possible to just go around all the problematic monitor/boardset issues and build a new computer just to run star wars mame on it.  Then i say to myself how horrible it would be to do that to one of the most sought after machines in our hobby!  So i have not done it, and will not do it, because i do love that game and have so many great memories, but i figured if i thought about it, someone else has probobly already done it.  Just was curious.
ChadTower:

It could be done, and done to be just like the original, except the display would not be as sharp as a vector monitor would be.  You wouldn't even need to spend all that much to get it done if you wanted a regular dedicated SW rather than a multigame cab.
nostrebor:
It could also be done in such a way that you would be able to quickly and easily convert it back to a vector cabinet if a monitor shows up. And with no noticeable effect on the original cabinet.
Havok:
In that case I say do it. Setup a cheap pc to boot right to the game, put in a decent computer monitor of the same size, and you're all set. You might even want to add the Empire Strikes Back to add extra play value. Get an analog interface, or hack a sidewinder to connect the yoke to the pc, and away you go. Just don't go cutting wires and hacking the cab up to install the pc. Make sure you can go back to 100% original.
redfivexw:
that is what i was thinking, just hooking up a temporary thing, putting a computer monitor inside (decased with original mounting hardware installed) and a pc with just star wars or both star wars and empire sb.  I have hooked up several mame pc's with an ipac, would i use an ipac or is there a better controller to use?  i have never hooked up a Yoke or steering wheel type controller to pc before, i am not sure what you need to do to get the right effect. 
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